SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
May 21, 2011
Patrick Lynch of the FreeTruth radio interviewed David Lionel de Rothschild at Exbury Gardens, Hampshire, England, on May 14th, 2011. During the interview, Patrick then turns the subject to the Rothschild family and their role in bringing about a New World Order.
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Ron Paul Counters Obama Policy on Israel, Middle East
May 20, 2011
By Thomas Eddlem
“Unlike this President, I do not believe it is our place to dictate how Israel runs her affairs," the Texas Republican wrote in a May 20 press statement. "There can only be peace in the region if those sides work out their differences among one another. We should respect Israel’s sovereignty and not try to dictate her policy from Washington." Representative Paul has announced an electoral challenge to Obama as a Republican, and will face Obama in November 2012 if he can win the GOP nomination.
Obama had proposed May 19 that "We believe the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states." The proposal rocked the relationship between the United States and Israel, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuffed Obama in person the next day from an Oval Office press conference, complaining that "while Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines — because these lines are indefensible; because they don’t take into account certain changes that have taken place on the ground, demographic changes that have taken place over the last 44 years."
Obama also promised some $2 billion in additional direct foreign aid to Egypt in the May 19 address. Egypt was until the 1980s an enemy of the Jewish state. Obama pledged an additional $2 billion investment from the U.S. government's Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) to North Africa and the Middle East.
By way of contrast, Rep. Paul has proposed eliminating all foreign aid. “I am not the only one who can see the absurdities of our foreign policy. We give $3 billion to Israel and $12 billion to her enemies," Paul wrote. "Most Americans know that makes no sense.... We are facing $2 trillion dollar deficits, and the American taxpayer cannot afford any of it."
Representative Paul also noted that U.S. foreign aid has often worked at cross-purposes with freedom in the Islamic world. Paul pointed out that for 30 years U.S. aid propped up the corrupt Mubarak regime in Egypt, a regime overthrown by the peaceful "Jasmine revolution" this spring. “As the President prepares to send even more support to Egypt, we should be reminded that it was our foreign aid that helped Mubarak retain power to repress his people in the first place. Now we have to deal with the consequences of those decisions, yet we keep repeating the same mistakes."
Obama's May 19 speech also took special note of the Jasmine revolution sweeping the Islamic world, a revolution that began in December in Tunisia and has since touched just about every Islamic nation. Obama claimed that "the people of the Middle East and North Africa had taken their future into their own hands." Obama even acknowledged that the United States and its policies had nothing to do with the peaceful demonstrations: "It’s not America that put people into the streets of Tunis or Cairo -– it was the people themselves who launched these movements, and it’s the people themselves that must ultimately determine their outcome."
But despite traditional U.S. foreign aid support for dictatorships, Obama implicitly threatened further intervention in Islamic nations and devoted particularly harsh criticism to Syria. "Most recently, the Syrian regime has chosen the path of murder and the mass arrests of its citizens. The United States has condemned these actions, and working with the international community we have stepped up our sanctions on the Syrian regime –- including sanctions announced yesterday on President Assad and those around him." Syria has indeed launched a month-long bloody campaign against peaceful protesters, a campaign that appears to be getting bloodier.
Obama stressed that the United States stood for "universal human rights" and that "Our support for these principles is not a secondary interest. Today I want to make it clear that it is a top priority that must be translated into concrete actions, and supported by all of the diplomatic, economic and strategic tools at our disposal." To many observers, "strategic tools" is a code word for U.S. military action.
Representative Paul, by way of contrast, has opposed Obama's Libyan war and strongly condemned the implicit threat to attack Syria. “The President also defended his unconstitutional intervention in Libya, authorized not by the United States Congress but by the United Nations, and announced new plans to pressure Syria and force the leader of that country to step down," Paul wrote. “Our military is already dangerously extended, and this administration wants to expand our involvement. When will our bombing in Libya end? Is President Obama seriously considering military action against Syria?...We need to come to our senses, trade with our friends in the Middle East (both Arab and Israeli), clean up our own economic mess so we set a good example, and allow them to work out their own conflicts."
Champagne Dreams and Caviar Wishes
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark Matheny
May 21, 2011
Many Americans have bought into the current administration's propaganda of a "Jobless, housing rate decline, inflation increased, debt ceiling reached- economy", but those who are not brainwashed by the corporate mainstream media know that the economy is on the brink of disaster.
Obama and his crew in the White House will constantly speak of the recovery, and yet the financial gurus, stock market historians, and many fund managers are saying instead that stocks may be going into "sleep mode" for the next decade.
Yale University professor and housing guru Robert Shiller believes that while stocks may gain 2 to 3% in the next decade, consumer spending and the housing market will continue to "head south again".
“Even at this point, with the recession technically over, we are in the worst financial shape we've been in since the Great Depression,” stated Mr. Shiller speaking to an audience in Las Vegas.
Any statistics or reports coming from the White House "Ministry of Truth" tend to be only half-truths at best. True unemployment rates are somewhere between 15% and 22%, depending on how you break down the data.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment rose to 9% in the month of April. Of course this number is overly optimistic (and quite deceptive), given the fact that it is a manipulated number which doesn't give the full picture of the unemployment nightmare many Americans are in right now.
If you go to U.S. Debt Clock.org, you can view the "official unemployment" amount at 13,242,236 people, while the "actual unemployment" amount is at 26,690,183 people.
It's clear that the numbers being presented by the White House, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics are fraudulant. There are currently Approximately 310 million Americans. 26,690,183 is 8.609736451612903% (8.6%) of 310 million. Obviously there is deception taking place.
According to Robert Shiller unemployment by his calculation is at around 15.9%. That would mean that there would have to be more like 46,800,183 people unemployed at this time. That means there are about 20 million more Americans unemployed than what is being reported on the mainstream media!
(46,800,183 is 15.9% of 310 million)
This alone is startling, and yet there is more misery in the economic sector relating to the housing market. Although Paulson promised in the beginning of the crash in 2007 to take the bailout money to help homeowners, nothing could have been further from the truth, and in a shell game act, he redirected money to the banks instead. Since the so-called "bailout", the housing market has been a slow-sinking ship in the market.
According to CNN Money in a March 29, 2011 article, 11.4% of all U.S. homes are currently vacant.
And although foreclosure filings may have slowed down some in april of 2011, the reason for the reduction in foreclosures may not be from better conditions in the market, but as a direct result of slower processing rates. Left and Right News reported on this May 17, 2011
The housing foreclosure rate for 2011 has certainly slowed down compared to 2010 rates, but this is nothing to jump up and down about. If you had a wound and were bleeding profusely, would you be overjoyed if your bleeding merely slowed down, all the while you continued to lose pint after pint - only at a slower pace?
According to the same Left and Right News article:
Now explain to me how adding an additional 17 million Americans to the foodstamp program in a matter of 41 months is a sign of recovery?
According to a Rasmussen poll, only 26% of likely U.S. voters say that the country is headed in the right direction. I can only hope that the reason for this is the fact that many are waking up to the reality that the mainstream media and our government has been stringing us along with "Champagne Dreams and Caviar Wishes", as it is said.
Recent declarations of Osama Bin Laden's death in an effort to bolster Obama's ratings, and sidetrack Americans from the economic crisis coming have so far failed, thanks to the alternative Internet media that has exposed the fraud of the White Houses' latest lies. That being the lie of Obama's so-called long form birth certificate, and the other lie of Bin Laden's latest demise ( for the ninth time now?)
The economy is certainly not getting better, and apparently, neither is the White Houses' ability to fool the public. So let's cast away the dreams and wishes that have betrayed us for so long, and cling to the economic and political reality we face, though hard to bear, in order to save our nation from the ultimate goal of this crisis - a New World Order.
This article can also be found in the New American Magazine on page 5
Mark Matheny
May 21, 2011
Many Americans have bought into the current administration's propaganda of a "Jobless, housing rate decline, inflation increased, debt ceiling reached- economy", but those who are not brainwashed by the corporate mainstream media know that the economy is on the brink of disaster.
Obama and his crew in the White House will constantly speak of the recovery, and yet the financial gurus, stock market historians, and many fund managers are saying instead that stocks may be going into "sleep mode" for the next decade.
Yale University professor and housing guru Robert Shiller believes that while stocks may gain 2 to 3% in the next decade, consumer spending and the housing market will continue to "head south again".
“Even at this point, with the recession technically over, we are in the worst financial shape we've been in since the Great Depression,” stated Mr. Shiller speaking to an audience in Las Vegas.
Any statistics or reports coming from the White House "Ministry of Truth" tend to be only half-truths at best. True unemployment rates are somewhere between 15% and 22%, depending on how you break down the data.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, unemployment rose to 9% in the month of April. Of course this number is overly optimistic (and quite deceptive), given the fact that it is a manipulated number which doesn't give the full picture of the unemployment nightmare many Americans are in right now.
If you go to U.S. Debt Clock.org, you can view the "official unemployment" amount at 13,242,236 people, while the "actual unemployment" amount is at 26,690,183 people.
It's clear that the numbers being presented by the White House, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics are fraudulant. There are currently Approximately 310 million Americans. 26,690,183 is 8.609736451612903% (8.6%) of 310 million. Obviously there is deception taking place.
According to Robert Shiller unemployment by his calculation is at around 15.9%. That would mean that there would have to be more like 46,800,183 people unemployed at this time. That means there are about 20 million more Americans unemployed than what is being reported on the mainstream media!
(46,800,183 is 15.9% of 310 million)
This alone is startling, and yet there is more misery in the economic sector relating to the housing market. Although Paulson promised in the beginning of the crash in 2007 to take the bailout money to help homeowners, nothing could have been further from the truth, and in a shell game act, he redirected money to the banks instead. Since the so-called "bailout", the housing market has been a slow-sinking ship in the market.
According to CNN Money in a March 29, 2011 article, 11.4% of all U.S. homes are currently vacant.
And although foreclosure filings may have slowed down some in april of 2011, the reason for the reduction in foreclosures may not be from better conditions in the market, but as a direct result of slower processing rates. Left and Right News reported on this May 17, 2011
A slower processing rate is also evident throughout the country. During the first quarter of 2011, it took an average of 400 days from the initial default notice to the repossession, which is up from 340 days in the first quarter of 2010.
In addition to a slower processing rate of foreclosures, the amount of homes with the inevitable fate of foreclosure remains close to the amount in 2010. The shadow housing inventory includes all distressed mortgages and currently makes up a third of all mortgages, according to S&P. This ultimately suggests the noticeable reduction in foreclosure filings over the past six months is not a result of improved market conditions, but is instead a direct result from slower processing rates.So, although the mainstream media might take the reduction of foreclosure filings and paint a picture of improved market conditions for housing, they are not telling you that it is more than likely a result of longer processing periods for foreclosures! Yes there are massive amounts of foreclosures, but since they are taking longer to process, they can report better statistics while the housing market declines.
The housing foreclosure rate for 2011 has certainly slowed down compared to 2010 rates, but this is nothing to jump up and down about. If you had a wound and were bleeding profusely, would you be overjoyed if your bleeding merely slowed down, all the while you continued to lose pint after pint - only at a slower pace?
According to the same Left and Right News article:
Although the pace of foreclosures has slowed in 2011, do not interpret this as an improvement in the amount of distressed properties in the housing market, but rather as a prolonged recovery of the housing market.Besides those two depressing areas of the economy, there are other areas that the administration are glossing over, or down right evading, such as the number of Americans on foodstamps. Obama and his House proclaimed a "summer of Recovery" in 2010, and spouted how the bailouts saved America from a catastrophe. But if you look back to the beginning of the crisis in December of 2007, there were approximately 27.4 million foodstamp recipients at that time. Since then the Food and Nutrition Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, reported a total of 44,199,391 Americans receiving benefits.
Now explain to me how adding an additional 17 million Americans to the foodstamp program in a matter of 41 months is a sign of recovery?
According to a Rasmussen poll, only 26% of likely U.S. voters say that the country is headed in the right direction. I can only hope that the reason for this is the fact that many are waking up to the reality that the mainstream media and our government has been stringing us along with "Champagne Dreams and Caviar Wishes", as it is said.
Recent declarations of Osama Bin Laden's death in an effort to bolster Obama's ratings, and sidetrack Americans from the economic crisis coming have so far failed, thanks to the alternative Internet media that has exposed the fraud of the White Houses' latest lies. That being the lie of Obama's so-called long form birth certificate, and the other lie of Bin Laden's latest demise ( for the ninth time now?)
The economy is certainly not getting better, and apparently, neither is the White Houses' ability to fool the public. So let's cast away the dreams and wishes that have betrayed us for so long, and cling to the economic and political reality we face, though hard to bear, in order to save our nation from the ultimate goal of this crisis - a New World Order.
This article can also be found in the New American Magazine on page 5
50 Things Every American Should Know About The Collapse Of The Economy
May 20, 2011
Right now, we are witnessing a truly historic collapse of the economy, and yet most Americans do not understand what is going on. One of the biggest reasons why the American people do not understand what is happening to the economy is because our politicians and the mainstream media are not telling the truth. Barack Obama and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke keep repeating the phrase "economic recovery" over and over, and this is really confusing for most Americans because things sure don't seem to be getting much better where they live.
There are millions upon millions of Americans that are sitting at home on their couches right now wondering why they lost their jobs and why nobody will hire them. Millions of others are wondering why the only jobs they can get are jobs that a high school student could do. Families all across America are wondering why it seems like their wages never go up but the price of food and the price of gas continue to skyrocket. We are facing some very serious long-term economic problems in this country, and we need to educate the American people about why the collapse of the economy is happening. If the American people don't understand why they are losing their jobs, why they are losing their homes and why they are drowning in debt then they are going to keep on doing all of the same things that they have been doing. They will also keep sending the same idiot politicians back to Washington to represent us.
There are some fundamental things about the economy that every American should know. The American people need to be shocked out of their entertainment-induced stupor long enough to understand what is really going on and what needs to be done to solve our nightmarish economic problems. If we do not wake up enough Americans in time, the economic collapse that is coming could tear this nation to shreds.
The U.S. economy was once the greatest economic machine in modern world history. It was truly a wonder to behold. It worked so well that entire generations of Americans came to believe that America would enjoy boundless prosperity indefinitely.
But sadly, prosperity is not guaranteed for any nation. Over the past several decades, some very alarming long-term economic trends have developed that are absolutely destroying the economy. If dramatic changes are not made soon, a complete and total economic collapse will be unavoidable.
Unfortunately, the American people will never agree to fundamental changes to our economic and financial systems unless they are fully educated about what is causing our problems. We have turned our backs on the principles of our forefathers and the principles of those that founded this nation. We have rejected the ancient wisdom that was handed down to us.
It has been said that those that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.
We are about to experience the consequences of decades of really bad decisions.
Hopefully we can get the American people to wake up.
The following are 50 things that every American should know about the collapse of the economy....
#1 Do you remember how much was made of the "Misery Index" during the presidency of Jimmy Carter? At that time, the "Misery Index" was constantly making headlines in newspapers all across the country. Well, according to John Williams of Shadow Government Statistics, if we calculated unemployment and inflation the same way that we did back during the Carter administration, then the Misery Index today would actually be higher than at any point during the presidency of Jimmy Carter.
#2 According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, an average of about 5 million Americans were being hired every single month during 2006. Today, an average of about 3.5 million Americans are being hired every single month.
#3 According to the Wall Street Journal, there are 5.5 million Americans that are currently unemployed and yet are not receiving unemployment benefits.
#4 All over America, state and local governments are selling off buildings just to pay the bills. Investors can now buy up government-owned power plants, prisons and municipal buildings from coast to coast. For example, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey recently sold off 16 government buildings (including the police and fire headquarters) just to pay some bills.
#5 When Americans think of "government debt", most of them only think of the federal government, but it is not just the federal government that has a massive debt problem. State and local government debt has reached an all-time high of 22 percent of U.S. GDP.
#6 If you can believe it, one out of every seven Americans has at least 10 credit cards.
#7 Credit card usage in the United States is on the increase once again. During the month of March, revolving consumer credit jumped 2.9%. Sadly, it looks like Americans have not learned their lessons about the dangers of credit card debt.
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Rabbi: 'The President of the United States is Asking for Ethnic Cleansing'
Thursday, May 19, 2011
(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama has made an unprecedented demand on Israel, Jewish leaders said Thursday, after the president called for Israel to redraw its borders to where they were in 1967 before the Six Day War. One rabbi said Obama was, in essence, asking for "ethnic cleansing" of thousands of Jewish families.
“It’s immoral in that basically the president of the United States is asking that 500,000 people who live, work, and raise families around Jerusalem – Jewish families – that they be uprooted, resettled, deported from their homes, have their families broken,” Rabbi Aryeh Spero, founder of Caucus for America, told CNSNews.com.
“The president of the United States is asking for ethnic cleansing,” said Rabbi Spero. “It’s ironic that the president, who speaks in humanitarian tones regarding the Palestinians, doesn’t have any humanitarian concerns toward 500,000 Jewish people and families that will be uprooted and deported from their homes.”
Obama made the demand on Israel during a speech on the Middle East, delivered at the State Department on Thursday, as a way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But Spero believes Obama was not being honest.
“Every time Israel relinquishes land on the altar of peace, it gets not peace but rockets,” Spero said. “This has been played over and over by the Palestinian Authority, then with Yasser Arafat, with Hamas. He knows what will happen with the Israelis, and yet it doesn’t seem to bother him.”
“I’m just very disappointed that my president seems to be so indifferent to the plight of the Jewish people in Israel,” he said.
Though Israel has given up land to Palestinians in the past because of pressure from the United States, no U.S. president has asked this much, said Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum, director of the Rabbinical Alliance of America.
“It’s par for the course, but not to this extent,” Tannenbaum told CNSNews.com. “In other words, other presidents have also pressured Israel with the hope of achieving some kind of peace. But considering the history and considering facts on the ground, no president has been as severe as President Obama.”
However, Tannenbaum thinks the proposal is a non-starter primarily because the borders have never been the issue.
“The suggestion is going to die, this is not going to work,” he said. “It won’t go anywhere. If you notice, there was an attack on all the borders of the state of Israel. There was an attack on the 1967 borders. The problem with Israel for the Palestinians is the very existence of the state of Israel -- not its borders -- but that it exists at all. They will not rest until there is no Israel.”
But Spero is not so sure the proposal will just go away, even without support from Congress.
“While he [Obama] can’t force the Jewish people out of their lands, he can certainly pressure Israel to the point where it finds itself in a very insecure state of affairs,” said Rabbi Spero. “He could without certain military weapons and parts that are needed for Israel’s defense. So, it’s a tremendous amount of intimidation and pressure.”
Israel expanded its territory after the Six Day War defeating Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Israel gained the West Bank, the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, and the Sinai Peninsula (the Sinai was returned to Egypt in a deal brokered in 1978). Since 1967, and most notably in the early 1990s, Israel gave up significant amounts of land for peace to the Palestinians. The conflict has nevertheless raged onward.
“The reason Israel today is bigger than it was in 1967 is because the Arab countries united in an attack against Israel,” Tannenbaum said. “Miraculously, Israel fought them off and won. Now Israel has returned a majority of the West Bank and Israel has returned the Gaza Strip. There still is no peace. So at this point, returning more land is counterproductive and is not the answer. And the president is wrong in his plan.”
On the eve of a visit to the U.S. by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the timing of the announcement seemed calculating, said Rabbi Yehuda Levin, a spokesman for the Rabbinical Alliance of America.
“I’m not a political Zionist,” said the rabbi. “I have my problems with the state of Israel and the things that they do that flies in the face of our religious traditional heritage. Nevertheless, in terms of security for human beings, one has to be totally concerned. I have many family members and extended family members and fellow Jews in Israel and I’m concerned for their safety.”
“I’m just prayerful that the Congress of the United States will respond to the Jewish people and residents of Israel that the position of one human being as president does not reflect what the country feels,” Levin said.
Obama recognized the negotiations would be a challenge because of the agreement between the Fatah, the leading Palestinian political party and the terrorist group Hamas, but he reaffirmed America’s relationship with Israel.
Still the speech has sparked concern and widespread coverage.
“We welcome the president’s recognition of Israel’s security needs and that Hamas cannot be a partner in the peace process, but a call to a return to 1967 borders as the basis for negotiations, even with ‘land swaps’ is a non-starter, when at least half of the Palestinian rulers are committed to Israel’s destruction,” said Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in a written statement. “The road to peace has been clear for a long time -- direct negotiations between parties who recognize each other's legitimacy.”
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla), in a statement released after the president’s speech, said: “This proposal is a slap in the face of our friend and democracy’s only ally in the Middle East: Israel. As a nation, we should support and promote freedom and democracy in the region, but we should not do so at the expense of Israel. That land belongs to Israel – period.”
“Based on archeological evidence and historical right, that land belongs to Israel,” said Inhofe. “As I have outlined several times before, Israel is a strategic ally to the United States that acts as a roadblock to terrorism. Every other country in that region hates Israel and would stop at nothing for Israel’s destruction just as they would stop at nothing to see our own destruction.”
“President Obama’s speech today kowtows to the very forces that hate us,” said the senator. “I will try to address all these issues on the Senate floor next week to refute President Obama’s message today.”
President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
(CNSNews.com) – President Barack Obama has made an unprecedented demand on Israel, Jewish leaders said Thursday, after the president called for Israel to redraw its borders to where they were in 1967 before the Six Day War. One rabbi said Obama was, in essence, asking for "ethnic cleansing" of thousands of Jewish families.
“It’s immoral in that basically the president of the United States is asking that 500,000 people who live, work, and raise families around Jerusalem – Jewish families – that they be uprooted, resettled, deported from their homes, have their families broken,” Rabbi Aryeh Spero, founder of Caucus for America, told CNSNews.com.
“The president of the United States is asking for ethnic cleansing,” said Rabbi Spero. “It’s ironic that the president, who speaks in humanitarian tones regarding the Palestinians, doesn’t have any humanitarian concerns toward 500,000 Jewish people and families that will be uprooted and deported from their homes.”
Obama made the demand on Israel during a speech on the Middle East, delivered at the State Department on Thursday, as a way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But Spero believes Obama was not being honest.
“Every time Israel relinquishes land on the altar of peace, it gets not peace but rockets,” Spero said. “This has been played over and over by the Palestinian Authority, then with Yasser Arafat, with Hamas. He knows what will happen with the Israelis, and yet it doesn’t seem to bother him.”
“I’m just very disappointed that my president seems to be so indifferent to the plight of the Jewish people in Israel,” he said.
Though Israel has given up land to Palestinians in the past because of pressure from the United States, no U.S. president has asked this much, said Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum, director of the Rabbinical Alliance of America.
Rabbi Aryeh Spero
“It’s par for the course, but not to this extent,” Tannenbaum told CNSNews.com. “In other words, other presidents have also pressured Israel with the hope of achieving some kind of peace. But considering the history and considering facts on the ground, no president has been as severe as President Obama.”
However, Tannenbaum thinks the proposal is a non-starter primarily because the borders have never been the issue.
“The suggestion is going to die, this is not going to work,” he said. “It won’t go anywhere. If you notice, there was an attack on all the borders of the state of Israel. There was an attack on the 1967 borders. The problem with Israel for the Palestinians is the very existence of the state of Israel -- not its borders -- but that it exists at all. They will not rest until there is no Israel.”
But Spero is not so sure the proposal will just go away, even without support from Congress.
“While he [Obama] can’t force the Jewish people out of their lands, he can certainly pressure Israel to the point where it finds itself in a very insecure state of affairs,” said Rabbi Spero. “He could without certain military weapons and parts that are needed for Israel’s defense. So, it’s a tremendous amount of intimidation and pressure.”
Israel expanded its territory after the Six Day War defeating Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Israel gained the West Bank, the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, and the Sinai Peninsula (the Sinai was returned to Egypt in a deal brokered in 1978). Since 1967, and most notably in the early 1990s, Israel gave up significant amounts of land for peace to the Palestinians. The conflict has nevertheless raged onward.
“The reason Israel today is bigger than it was in 1967 is because the Arab countries united in an attack against Israel,” Tannenbaum said. “Miraculously, Israel fought them off and won. Now Israel has returned a majority of the West Bank and Israel has returned the Gaza Strip. There still is no peace. So at this point, returning more land is counterproductive and is not the answer. And the president is wrong in his plan.”
Israel
On the eve of a visit to the U.S. by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the timing of the announcement seemed calculating, said Rabbi Yehuda Levin, a spokesman for the Rabbinical Alliance of America.
“I’m not a political Zionist,” said the rabbi. “I have my problems with the state of Israel and the things that they do that flies in the face of our religious traditional heritage. Nevertheless, in terms of security for human beings, one has to be totally concerned. I have many family members and extended family members and fellow Jews in Israel and I’m concerned for their safety.”
“I’m just prayerful that the Congress of the United States will respond to the Jewish people and residents of Israel that the position of one human being as president does not reflect what the country feels,” Levin said.
Obama recognized the negotiations would be a challenge because of the agreement between the Fatah, the leading Palestinian political party and the terrorist group Hamas, but he reaffirmed America’s relationship with Israel.
Still the speech has sparked concern and widespread coverage.
“We welcome the president’s recognition of Israel’s security needs and that Hamas cannot be a partner in the peace process, but a call to a return to 1967 borders as the basis for negotiations, even with ‘land swaps’ is a non-starter, when at least half of the Palestinian rulers are committed to Israel’s destruction,” said Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in a written statement. “The road to peace has been clear for a long time -- direct negotiations between parties who recognize each other's legitimacy.”
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla), in a statement released after the president’s speech, said: “This proposal is a slap in the face of our friend and democracy’s only ally in the Middle East: Israel. As a nation, we should support and promote freedom and democracy in the region, but we should not do so at the expense of Israel. That land belongs to Israel – period.”
“Based on archeological evidence and historical right, that land belongs to Israel,” said Inhofe. “As I have outlined several times before, Israel is a strategic ally to the United States that acts as a roadblock to terrorism. Every other country in that region hates Israel and would stop at nothing for Israel’s destruction just as they would stop at nothing to see our own destruction.”
“President Obama’s speech today kowtows to the very forces that hate us,” said the senator. “I will try to address all these issues on the Senate floor next week to refute President Obama’s message today.”
The Establishment Eliminates A Threat
Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
May 20, 2011
The police and the prostitute media have made it impossible for Dominique Strauss-Kahn to get a fair trial. From the moment of the announcement that he had been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a hotel maid, and before he was ever indicted, the accounts given by the police were designed to create the impression that the director of the International Monetary Fund was guilty. For example, the police told the media, which duly regurgitated to the public, that Strauss-Kahn was in such a hurry to flee the scene of the crime that he left behind his cell phone. The police also put out the story that by calling airlines and demanding passenger lists, they managed to catch the fleeing rapist just as his plane was departing for France.
A New York judge denied Strauss-Kahn bail on the basis of police misrepresentation that he was apprehended fleeing the country.
Once he was imprisoned, the police announced that Strauss-Kahn was on suicide watch, which is a way of suggesting to the public that the accused rapist might take his own life in order to avoid the public humiliation of a guilty verdict from a jury.
But what really happened, assuming one can learn anything from press reports, is that Strauss-Kahn, upon arriving at JFK airport for his scheduled flight, discovered that he did not have his cell phone and telephoned the hotel, the scene of the alleged crime. It boggles the mind that anyone could possibly think that a person fleeing from his crime would call the scene of the crime, ask about his left behind cell phone, and tell them where he was.
Then in rapid succession, reeking of orchestration, a French woman steps forward and declares that a decade ago she was nearly raped by Strauss-Kahn. This was followed by Kristin Davis, the Manhattan Madam of the prostitute who did in Eliot Spitzer before he could get the banksters on Wall Street, stepping forward to announce that one of her call girls refused to service Strauss-Kahn a second time because he was too rough in the act.
With hunting season opened, any woman whose career would benefit from publicity, or whose bank account would bless a damage award, can now step forward and claim to have been a victim or near victim of Strauss-Kahn.
This is not to deny that Strauss-Kahn might have an inordinate appetite for sex that did him in. It is to say that long before a jury hears from the maid, or from a prosecutor speaking for the maid “who is too traumatized to appear in court,” the jury has been programmed with the verdict that he is guilty.
Why would he run away if he didn’t do it?
Look at all the women he has accosted!
You get the picture.
I have written about the anomalies of the case. One of the most striking is the confirmed reports in the French and British press that a political activist for French President Sarkozy, Jonathan Pinet, tweeted the news of Strauss-Kahn’s arrest to Arnaud Dassier, a spin doctor for Sarkozy, before the news was announced by the New York police.
Pinet’s explanation for how he was the first to know is that a “friend” in the Sofitel Hotel, where the alleged crime took place, told him. Is it merely a coincidence that the men assigned the task of removing the Strauss-Kahn threat to French President Sarkozy’s re-election had a clued-in friend in the Sofitel Hotel? Did the police clue-in the “friend” before they made the public announcement? If so, why?
What bothers me about the Strauss-Kahn affair is that if the police have evidence that supports their insistence on his guilt, it is pointless for the police to set Strauss-Kahn up in the media. Generally, set-ups like this occur only when there is no evidence or when the evidence has to be fabricated and cannot withstand examination.
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Infowars.com
May 20, 2011
The police and the prostitute media have made it impossible for Dominique Strauss-Kahn to get a fair trial. From the moment of the announcement that he had been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a hotel maid, and before he was ever indicted, the accounts given by the police were designed to create the impression that the director of the International Monetary Fund was guilty. For example, the police told the media, which duly regurgitated to the public, that Strauss-Kahn was in such a hurry to flee the scene of the crime that he left behind his cell phone. The police also put out the story that by calling airlines and demanding passenger lists, they managed to catch the fleeing rapist just as his plane was departing for France.
A New York judge denied Strauss-Kahn bail on the basis of police misrepresentation that he was apprehended fleeing the country.
Once he was imprisoned, the police announced that Strauss-Kahn was on suicide watch, which is a way of suggesting to the public that the accused rapist might take his own life in order to avoid the public humiliation of a guilty verdict from a jury.
But what really happened, assuming one can learn anything from press reports, is that Strauss-Kahn, upon arriving at JFK airport for his scheduled flight, discovered that he did not have his cell phone and telephoned the hotel, the scene of the alleged crime. It boggles the mind that anyone could possibly think that a person fleeing from his crime would call the scene of the crime, ask about his left behind cell phone, and tell them where he was.
Then in rapid succession, reeking of orchestration, a French woman steps forward and declares that a decade ago she was nearly raped by Strauss-Kahn. This was followed by Kristin Davis, the Manhattan Madam of the prostitute who did in Eliot Spitzer before he could get the banksters on Wall Street, stepping forward to announce that one of her call girls refused to service Strauss-Kahn a second time because he was too rough in the act.
With hunting season opened, any woman whose career would benefit from publicity, or whose bank account would bless a damage award, can now step forward and claim to have been a victim or near victim of Strauss-Kahn.
This is not to deny that Strauss-Kahn might have an inordinate appetite for sex that did him in. It is to say that long before a jury hears from the maid, or from a prosecutor speaking for the maid “who is too traumatized to appear in court,” the jury has been programmed with the verdict that he is guilty.
Why would he run away if he didn’t do it?
Look at all the women he has accosted!
You get the picture.
I have written about the anomalies of the case. One of the most striking is the confirmed reports in the French and British press that a political activist for French President Sarkozy, Jonathan Pinet, tweeted the news of Strauss-Kahn’s arrest to Arnaud Dassier, a spin doctor for Sarkozy, before the news was announced by the New York police.
Pinet’s explanation for how he was the first to know is that a “friend” in the Sofitel Hotel, where the alleged crime took place, told him. Is it merely a coincidence that the men assigned the task of removing the Strauss-Kahn threat to French President Sarkozy’s re-election had a clued-in friend in the Sofitel Hotel? Did the police clue-in the “friend” before they made the public announcement? If so, why?
What bothers me about the Strauss-Kahn affair is that if the police have evidence that supports their insistence on his guilt, it is pointless for the police to set Strauss-Kahn up in the media. Generally, set-ups like this occur only when there is no evidence or when the evidence has to be fabricated and cannot withstand examination.
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McDonald's upgrades : Touch screens to replace Humans, and Electronic Purchases to Replace Cash- No cash allowed
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark Matheny
May 20, 2011
It looks like further steps toward a cashless society are being implemented through the franchise of McDonald's now in Europe. I have talked about this move by the globalists in their quest for a world currency, world government, and total control of all humans by completely eliminating all private transactions and the destruction of paper money.
The article below is very revealing once you understand the goal of the controllers implementing these subtle moves through popular institutions like McDonald's in order to aclimate the masses to this total enslavement mechanism called electronic banking, and electronic transfers.
Every transaction, location, product, and the identity of the person purchasing will be available to interested agencies and those privy to such information.
This is now happening in Europe. Prepare for this same move to come to America soon.
7,000 European restaurants to use touch screens instead of people — and no cash
May 20, 2011
McDonald's restaurants in Europe will soon be swapping the chain's legendary "service with a smile" with "service with a beep." European McDonald's restaurants are preparing to replace cashiers with touch screen computers at terminals where customers will be able to order up their hamburgers and fries and pay with credit cards.
About 7,000 of the fast food franchise's locations in the United Kingdom will be fitted with the touch screen technology, which aims to make the McDonald's experience more convenient and accommodating.
The touch screen method of ordering will improve efficiency and make the average transaction three to four seconds faster for each customer, Steve Easterbrook, president of the European branch of McDonald's, told the Financial Times. Easterbrook didn't provide a date for when the touch screens, which were inspired by a trip to Japan, will be introduced to UK McDonald's restaurants.
The new terminals also will phase out cash as an accepted payment method, as the machines will only take credit and debit cards. No word yet on whether McDonald's in the United States will be next in line to replace cashiers with computers, but the addition doesn't seem to be part of the ongoing $1 billion makeover of the company's U.S. restaurants.
7,000 European restaurants to use touch screens instead of people — and no cash
May 20, 2011
McDonald's restaurants in Europe will soon be swapping the chain's legendary "service with a smile" with "service with a beep." European McDonald's restaurants are preparing to replace cashiers with touch screen computers at terminals where customers will be able to order up their hamburgers and fries and pay with credit cards.
About 7,000 of the fast food franchise's locations in the United Kingdom will be fitted with the touch screen technology, which aims to make the McDonald's experience more convenient and accommodating.
The touch screen method of ordering will improve efficiency and make the average transaction three to four seconds faster for each customer, Steve Easterbrook, president of the European branch of McDonald's, told the Financial Times. Easterbrook didn't provide a date for when the touch screens, which were inspired by a trip to Japan, will be introduced to UK McDonald's restaurants.
The new terminals also will phase out cash as an accepted payment method, as the machines will only take credit and debit cards. No word yet on whether McDonald's in the United States will be next in line to replace cashiers with computers, but the addition doesn't seem to be part of the ongoing $1 billion makeover of the company's U.S. restaurants.
University “Campus Watch” Citizen Spy Program Partners With Threat Fusion Center To Report Suspicious Activity
Activist Post
May 20, 2011
A University of Arizona student sent us the following forwarded message from a professor:
Based upon Osama bin Laden being killed by U.S. military forces, The University of Arizona Police Department, in a joint effort with The Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center, is asking all Citizens to increase vigilance and maintain a heightened awareness of suspicious activities.
We know that threat assessment fusion centers, represented above by The Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center (ACTIC), have been set up around the country in order to federalize local communities through public and private partnership programs. On their website, ACTIC states that in 2006 they launched a Community Liaison Program which now includes "More than 4,000 contact representatives from 300 private and public sector organizations participate" to support "the National Homeland Security Strategies of 'Strengthening Information Sharing and Collaboration Capabilities.' In so doing they have enlisted the following Participating Partners:
May 20, 2011
A University of Arizona student sent us the following forwarded message from a professor:
Anthony Daykin, Chief of Police
CAMPUS WATCH
May 18, 2011
REPORTING SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY
Based upon Osama bin Laden being killed by U.S. military forces, The University of Arizona Police Department, in a joint effort with The Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center, is asking all Citizens to increase vigilance and maintain a heightened awareness of suspicious activities.
The University of Arizona Police Department encourages you to remain alert and aware of your surroundings and the people in your vicinity at all times. If you notice suspicious activity or persons, please call your local law enforcement agency by first dialing 9-1-1. Information can then be forwarded to the ACTIC Watch Center at 1-877-2SAVE-AZ (1-877-272-8329), or via email at actic@azdps.gov.
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We know that threat assessment fusion centers, represented above by The Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center (ACTIC), have been set up around the country in order to federalize local communities through public and private partnership programs. On their website, ACTIC states that in 2006 they launched a Community Liaison Program which now includes "More than 4,000 contact representatives from 300 private and public sector organizations participate" to support "the National Homeland Security Strategies of 'Strengthening Information Sharing and Collaboration Capabilities.' In so doing they have enlisted the following Participating Partners:
- Religious groups
- Block watches
- Private security companies
- Tourism industry
- Financial groups
- Utility companies
- Public health organizations
- Educational institutions
- Technology
- Transportation
- Community Groups
- And Many More...
The Federal Reserve’s elaborate financial charade on the American people – Big banks hold excess reserves that represent 10 percent of U.S. GDP. Federal Reserve has failed on largest goals for our economy.
MyBudget360.com
May 20, 2011
The antics of our Federal Reserve rival those of the now disgraced IMF chief although they won’t grab as many gossip headlines. The Federal Reserve has fashioned a system that has allowed economic bubbles to surface every very few years like high school reunions. Bubbles are not normal. These are financial disequilibrium events that occur simply because excess money is flowing through the system.
The housing bubble was the perfect example of what happens when a central bank does not mind its own store. The Federal Reserve, our central bank and supposed expert on all things money, sought to protect the banking system at all costs during this recent crisis.
It is amazing how the actions conducted by the Fed were never fully scrutinized in the media thoroughly even though this is where most of the money was funneled. It was simply assumed that the trillions of dollars in loans, purchases, and accounting chicanery that went to the largest banks was somehow the perfect way to avoid a crisis. Who really avoided the crisis here? The working and middle class is still disappearing. Yet the large Wall Street banks are back to their profitable ways since they figured out that the best thing for business is a crisis.
These banks (just like the Fed) have little desire to help the American public even though they are only standing because of the power of the people.
Read the entire article
May 20, 2011
The antics of our Federal Reserve rival those of the now disgraced IMF chief although they won’t grab as many gossip headlines. The Federal Reserve has fashioned a system that has allowed economic bubbles to surface every very few years like high school reunions. Bubbles are not normal. These are financial disequilibrium events that occur simply because excess money is flowing through the system.
The housing bubble was the perfect example of what happens when a central bank does not mind its own store. The Federal Reserve, our central bank and supposed expert on all things money, sought to protect the banking system at all costs during this recent crisis.
It is amazing how the actions conducted by the Fed were never fully scrutinized in the media thoroughly even though this is where most of the money was funneled. It was simply assumed that the trillions of dollars in loans, purchases, and accounting chicanery that went to the largest banks was somehow the perfect way to avoid a crisis. Who really avoided the crisis here? The working and middle class is still disappearing. Yet the large Wall Street banks are back to their profitable ways since they figured out that the best thing for business is a crisis.
These banks (just like the Fed) have little desire to help the American public even though they are only standing because of the power of the people.
Read the entire article
Netanyahu Heads to White House After Obama Shift on Palestinian Statehood
FOXNews.com
May 20, 2011
The frosty relationship between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will endure another test Friday, as the two meet in the Oval Office following a bombshell policy shift by the U.S. on terms for Mideast peace.
Obama, in a sweeping address tackling the uprisings in the Middle East and the stalled peace process, stunned Washington and Jerusalem Thursday by endorsing Palestinians' demand for their own state based on the pre-1967 borders. The break with U.S. policy appeared to immediately aggravate the Israelis, who want the borders of any future Palestinian state determined through negotiations.
In a statement released late Thursday, Netanyahu said such a withdrawal would put at risk Israel's security. He effectively called on Obama to recant his latest demand.
"Israel appreciates President Obama's commitment to peace," the statement said. "Israel believes that for peace to endure between Israelis and Palestinians, the viability of a Palestinian state cannot come at the expense of the viability of the one and only Jewish state. That is why Prime Minister Netanyahu expects to hear a reaffirmation from President Obama of U.S. commitments made to Israel in 2004. ... Among other things, those commitments relate to Israel not having to withdraw to the 1967 lines."
According to a report in the Israeli newspaper YNet, the prime minister is prepared for a confrontation with Obama Friday. Obama and Netanyahu have worked through a string of diplomatic challenges over the past two and a half years, but the president's Mideast speech presents a new hurdle. The U.S. had previously endorsed the concept of a Palestinian state, but not the demand for permanent pre-1967 borders, with mutually agreed land swaps.
Obama Bombshell: New Birth Certificate a Forgery
Alex Jones & Aaron Dykes
Infowars.com
May 19, 2011
Alex Jones addresses the latest revelations about the phony document presented by the Obama White House as proof of his eligibility for high office.
Author Jerome Corsi has now become the target of White House dirty tricks coinciding with the release of his new book, ‘Where is the Birth Certificate?‘ Corsi has not backed down, but rather renewed his charges, asserting that the long-form birth certificate just released by Obama is a composite forgery made up of several real birth certificates. He has stated his intent to validate these claims in coming media interviews, including a scheduled appearance on the Alex Jones Show this Friday, May 20, 2011.
Pro-Obama factions have panicked, using a deceptive “satire” piece published in Esquire under the title “BREAKING: Jerome Corsi’s Birther Book Pulled from Shelves!” in attempt to sabotage Corsi’s books sales and public support. Simultaneously, Obama’s re-election campaign is trying to score 2012 points by mocking “birthers” with a new campaign shirt that reads “Made in America” with Obama’s image and his purported birth certificate.
But why would the White House even care about best-selling authors like Jerome Corsi (notoriously behind the John Kerry Swift Boat book) or fringe “birthers” if the released document gives all necessary proof to silence the doubters? As the Latin phrase res ipsa loquitur indicates, the thing should speak for itself. In other words, the truth lies in the evidence not the pitch for the case.
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Infowars.com
May 19, 2011
Alex Jones addresses the latest revelations about the phony document presented by the Obama White House as proof of his eligibility for high office.
Author Jerome Corsi has now become the target of White House dirty tricks coinciding with the release of his new book, ‘Where is the Birth Certificate?‘ Corsi has not backed down, but rather renewed his charges, asserting that the long-form birth certificate just released by Obama is a composite forgery made up of several real birth certificates. He has stated his intent to validate these claims in coming media interviews, including a scheduled appearance on the Alex Jones Show this Friday, May 20, 2011.
Pro-Obama factions have panicked, using a deceptive “satire” piece published in Esquire under the title “BREAKING: Jerome Corsi’s Birther Book Pulled from Shelves!” in attempt to sabotage Corsi’s books sales and public support. Simultaneously, Obama’s re-election campaign is trying to score 2012 points by mocking “birthers” with a new campaign shirt that reads “Made in America” with Obama’s image and his purported birth certificate.
But why would the White House even care about best-selling authors like Jerome Corsi (notoriously behind the John Kerry Swift Boat book) or fringe “birthers” if the released document gives all necessary proof to silence the doubters? As the Latin phrase res ipsa loquitur indicates, the thing should speak for itself. In other words, the truth lies in the evidence not the pitch for the case.
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Get Jerome Corsi’s ‘Where is the Birth Certificate?‘ from the INFOWARS ON-LINE STORE. Now shipping!
Navy names ship after labor activist Cesar Chavez
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The U.S. Navy named its latest Lewis and Clark-class cargo ship after labor organizer Cesar Chavez.
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May 18, 2011
By the CNN Wire StaffThe U.S. Navy has named one of its newest ships after Mexican-American labor organizer Cesar Chavez, officials said Wednesday.
The decision was an ideal fit for the latest in the Lewis and Clark class of ships, which bear the names of legendary pioneers and explorers, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said in a statement.
"Cesar Chavez inspired young Americans to do what is right and what is necessary to protect our freedoms and our country," he said. "The Cesar Chavez will sail hundreds of thousands of miles and will bring support and assistance to thousands upon thousands of people. His example will live on in this great ship."
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Geithner: Another Meltdown is 'Certain' — Raising Taxes on the Wealthy Will Come
NewsMax.com
May 19, 2011
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner threw a bomb at America’s financial future last night, saying he is “certain” another financial catastrophe is on the way and that there is no way of reaching agreement on the debt ceiling without increasing taxes on the wealthy.
And he blamed a combination of timid politicians and credit card-debt-ridden Americans, rather than Wall Street and the big banks, for the financial woes that have beset the country over the past three years.
Geithner was speaking at a New York screening of the HBO adaptation of Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book “Too Big to Fail.” It came on the day that Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., pulled out of the “Gang of Six” trying to find a bi-partisan solution to the debt ceiling crisis.
Geithner said, “I’m certain we will” experience another crisis but not when or what kind.
Billionaires Dumping Stocks, Fleeing Market
The Treasury Department did not immediately respond to Newsmax’s request for comment on the Secretary’s remarks.
Geithner made his comment on taxes after The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove asked him if there was any solution to the debt ceiling crisis that did not involve raising taxes on the wealthy, despite Republicans’ fervent opposition.
“No,” he said, adding, “It might take them some time to come to that realization.”
Geithner said he does not know when the next meltdown will happen, nor what kind it will be, during a question-and-answer session with Sorkin and Pulitzer Prize-winning financial writer Liaquat Ahamed. But he warned it is on its way.
“It will come again. There will be another storm. But it’s not going to come for a while.” When Sorkin tried to press him for details, he added, “You will not know. It’s not going to be possible for people to capture risk with perfect foresight and knowledge.”
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May 19, 2011
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner threw a bomb at America’s financial future last night, saying he is “certain” another financial catastrophe is on the way and that there is no way of reaching agreement on the debt ceiling without increasing taxes on the wealthy.
And he blamed a combination of timid politicians and credit card-debt-ridden Americans, rather than Wall Street and the big banks, for the financial woes that have beset the country over the past three years.
Geithner was speaking at a New York screening of the HBO adaptation of Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book “Too Big to Fail.” It came on the day that Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., pulled out of the “Gang of Six” trying to find a bi-partisan solution to the debt ceiling crisis.
Geithner said, “I’m certain we will” experience another crisis but not when or what kind.
Billionaires Dumping Stocks, Fleeing Market
The Treasury Department did not immediately respond to Newsmax’s request for comment on the Secretary’s remarks.
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“No,” he said, adding, “It might take them some time to come to that realization.”
Geithner said he does not know when the next meltdown will happen, nor what kind it will be, during a question-and-answer session with Sorkin and Pulitzer Prize-winning financial writer Liaquat Ahamed. But he warned it is on its way.
“It will come again. There will be another storm. But it’s not going to come for a while.” When Sorkin tried to press him for details, he added, “You will not know. It’s not going to be possible for people to capture risk with perfect foresight and knowledge.”
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Bankster Bankster At My Door
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark Matheny
May 19, 2011
It appears now that the banksters have the ability to come to your house when you are behind on the mortgage and break in with the intent of seizing your property, and there seems to be no protest or relief from the police in those communities where this is happening!
Mark Matheny
May 19, 2011
It appears now that the banksters have the ability to come to your house when you are behind on the mortgage and break in with the intent of seizing your property, and there seems to be no protest or relief from the police in those communities where this is happening!
Embattled IMF Chief Resigns
May 19, 2011
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International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn appears in Manhattan Criminal Court during his arraignment in New York May 16, 2011
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Photo: Reuters
VOA News
May 19, 2011
International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resigned his post from a New York City jail cell, where he is battling charges of sexual assault.
The IMF released his letter of resignation early Thursday. Dated Wednesday May 18, Strauss-Kahn's letter says he feels compelled to resign to protect the institution.
He says he wants to devote all his strength, time, and energy to proving his innocence.
Defense lawyers are seeking to get him released on bail, as a grand jury considers whether to formally indict the man who once was considered a leading French presidential hopeful.
A court official told reporters that a judge will hear arguments for bail at a hearing on Thursday. A judge ruled earlier this week that the wealthy, 62-year-old French national could be a flight risk.
Meanwhile, the hotel maid whom the IMF chief has been accused of assaulting was reported to have testified against him Wednesday.
A lawyer for the 32-year-old woman said she would tell a grand jury in New York that there was "nothing consensual" about her encounter in Strauss-Kahn's hotel room last week.
The woman, a widowed mother originally from Guinea, alleges that Strauss-Kahn groped and assaulted her in his luxurious hotel suite, and that he tried to rape her.
The New York grand jury is listening to testimony from her and others in secret, to determine if there is enough evidence to indict Strauss-Kahn. The grand jury decision is expected to be announced at a hearing Friday.
The IMF released his letter of resignation early Thursday. Dated Wednesday May 18, Strauss-Kahn's letter says he feels compelled to resign to protect the institution.
He says he wants to devote all his strength, time, and energy to proving his innocence.
Defense lawyers are seeking to get him released on bail, as a grand jury considers whether to formally indict the man who once was considered a leading French presidential hopeful.
A court official told reporters that a judge will hear arguments for bail at a hearing on Thursday. A judge ruled earlier this week that the wealthy, 62-year-old French national could be a flight risk.
Meanwhile, the hotel maid whom the IMF chief has been accused of assaulting was reported to have testified against him Wednesday.
A lawyer for the 32-year-old woman said she would tell a grand jury in New York that there was "nothing consensual" about her encounter in Strauss-Kahn's hotel room last week.
The woman, a widowed mother originally from Guinea, alleges that Strauss-Kahn groped and assaulted her in his luxurious hotel suite, and that he tried to rape her.
The New York grand jury is listening to testimony from her and others in secret, to determine if there is enough evidence to indict Strauss-Kahn. The grand jury decision is expected to be announced at a hearing Friday.
US Ready To Swap Occupation of Afghanistan For War On Pakistan?
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
May 17, 2011
With the Obama administration fast approaching a July deadline that mandates troops be withdrawn from Afghanistan, Pakistan is moving into the cross hairs as the next targeted conquest of the “war on terror,” with NATO helicopters launching an attack on a Pakistani military outpost today, triggering a firefight that injured two soldiers, as Pakistan moves closer to China in an effort to avoid geopolitical isolation.
Although NATO claimed it was responding to an unprovoked attack, Pakistan lodged a “strong protest,” stating that its soldiers were merely responding to an illegal incursion into Pakistani airspace.
“The incident is certain to weigh on relations between the U.S. and Pakistan have been pushed almost to the breaking point after the May 2 raid on Abbottabad that killed bin Laden, with Pakistan’s parliament condemning the operation as a violation of the nation’s sovereignty,” reports Reuters.
Pakistan’s political leaders as well as its citizens have been vociferous in their protests against US Predator drone strikes in the country that have killed 10 innocent people for every “militant” killed. These demonstrations reached fever pitch in the days before Obama’s announcement that Navy SEALS had killed Bin Laden at a compound in Abbottabad.
Washington was also furious about the Pakistani ISI’s role in outing CIA operative Raymond Davis, who shot dead two Pakistanis he claimed were trying to rob him in January.
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Infowars.com
May 17, 2011
With the Obama administration fast approaching a July deadline that mandates troops be withdrawn from Afghanistan, Pakistan is moving into the cross hairs as the next targeted conquest of the “war on terror,” with NATO helicopters launching an attack on a Pakistani military outpost today, triggering a firefight that injured two soldiers, as Pakistan moves closer to China in an effort to avoid geopolitical isolation.
Although NATO claimed it was responding to an unprovoked attack, Pakistan lodged a “strong protest,” stating that its soldiers were merely responding to an illegal incursion into Pakistani airspace.
“The incident is certain to weigh on relations between the U.S. and Pakistan have been pushed almost to the breaking point after the May 2 raid on Abbottabad that killed bin Laden, with Pakistan’s parliament condemning the operation as a violation of the nation’s sovereignty,” reports Reuters.
Pakistan’s political leaders as well as its citizens have been vociferous in their protests against US Predator drone strikes in the country that have killed 10 innocent people for every “militant” killed. These demonstrations reached fever pitch in the days before Obama’s announcement that Navy SEALS had killed Bin Laden at a compound in Abbottabad.
Washington was also furious about the Pakistani ISI’s role in outing CIA operative Raymond Davis, who shot dead two Pakistanis he claimed were trying to rob him in January.
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Webster Tarpley: CIA announces that next false-flag terror op will be blamed on Pakistan's ISI
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark Matheny
May 17, 2011
This is a news report from May third. Listen closely to what Webster Tarpley has to say. Pakistan may be the next major epicenter of a coming global war.
RT News
CIA Announces that Next False Flag Terror Op will be Blamed on Pakistan's ISI; China Backs Islamabad in Looming Confrontation; Collapse of the US Empire Brings Heightened Danger of General War
Mark Matheny
May 17, 2011
This is a news report from May third. Listen closely to what Webster Tarpley has to say. Pakistan may be the next major epicenter of a coming global war.
RT News
CIA Announces that Next False Flag Terror Op will be Blamed on Pakistan's ISI; China Backs Islamabad in Looming Confrontation; Collapse of the US Empire Brings Heightened Danger of General War
Keiser Report: Snow Globe of Denial
RussiaToday on May 17, 2011
This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on coffee speculators and crude plunges. In the second half of the show, Max talks to Reggie Middleton of BoomBustBlog.com about banking industry as the new tobacco industry and about the price of the bailout as the economic future of the United States.
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While You Were Sleeping, They Abolished the Fourth Amendment
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
May 17, 2011
Two recent Supreme Court cases have served to virtually abolish the Fourth Amendment in the United States of America, with citizens no longer being “secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.”
In a precedent described by dissenting justices as “breathtaking” and “unnecessarily broad,” the Indiana Supreme Court ruled last week in a 3-2 vote that doing anything to resist police busting down your door and conducting an illegal search is now a criminal act.
“[We] hold that the right to reasonably resist an unlawful police entry into a home is no longer recognized under Indiana law,” the court ruled in the case of Richard L. Barnes v. Indiana.
Dissenting Justices Brent E. Dickson and Robert D. Rucker made it clear that the ruling represented a total rejection of rights enshrined in the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution.
“In my view, the wholesale abrogation of the historic right of a person to reasonably resist unlawful police entry into his dwelling is unwarranted and unnecessarily broad,” Dickson wrote.
“In my view it is breathtaking that the majority deems it appropriate or even necessary to erode this constitutional protection based on a rationale addressing much different policy considerations,” added Rucker. “There is simply no reason to abrogate the common law right of a citizen to resist the unlawful police entry into his or her home.”
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Infowars.com
May 17, 2011
Two recent Supreme Court cases have served to virtually abolish the Fourth Amendment in the United States of America, with citizens no longer being “secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.”
In a precedent described by dissenting justices as “breathtaking” and “unnecessarily broad,” the Indiana Supreme Court ruled last week in a 3-2 vote that doing anything to resist police busting down your door and conducting an illegal search is now a criminal act.
“[We] hold that the right to reasonably resist an unlawful police entry into a home is no longer recognized under Indiana law,” the court ruled in the case of Richard L. Barnes v. Indiana.
Dissenting Justices Brent E. Dickson and Robert D. Rucker made it clear that the ruling represented a total rejection of rights enshrined in the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution.
“In my view, the wholesale abrogation of the historic right of a person to reasonably resist unlawful police entry into his dwelling is unwarranted and unnecessarily broad,” Dickson wrote.
“In my view it is breathtaking that the majority deems it appropriate or even necessary to erode this constitutional protection based on a rationale addressing much different policy considerations,” added Rucker. “There is simply no reason to abrogate the common law right of a citizen to resist the unlawful police entry into his or her home.”
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NATO Helicopters Fire on Pakistani Troops
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Photo: AP
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani addresses the Parliament in Islamabad, Pakistan, May 9, 2011 (file photo)
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VOA news
May 17, 2011
Pakistani officials say NATO helicopters crossed into Pakistan and fired on troops, wounding two soldiers in an incident that drew a strong protest from the Pakistani military.
Tuesday's attack in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan came amid heightened tensions between the United States and Pakistan, following the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.
Pakistan's army says troops fired on NATO helicopters after they crossed into Pakistan's northwestern tribal region from neighboring Afghanistan. Two soldiers were wounded when the helicopters returned fire.
NATO has confirmed it had helicopters flying near the border, and said it is investigating the incident.
A Western military official said the two helicopters were on the Afghan side of the border and were fired on from inside Pakistan. He said the helicopters only fired back after receiving fire twice.
North Waziristan is known to be a hub for Taliban and al-Qaida-linked militants who carry out attacks in neighboring Afghanistan. The tribal region repeatedly has been targeted by U.S. drone strikes.
Pakistan's army lodged a protest Tuesday and demanded a meeting with NATO on the alleged cross-border attack. Pakistan briefly closed the main land route for NATO supplies in Afghanistan after a similar incident last year in which two Pakistani soldiers were killed.
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Tuesday's attack in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan came amid heightened tensions between the United States and Pakistan, following the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.
Pakistan's army says troops fired on NATO helicopters after they crossed into Pakistan's northwestern tribal region from neighboring Afghanistan. Two soldiers were wounded when the helicopters returned fire.
NATO has confirmed it had helicopters flying near the border, and said it is investigating the incident.
A Western military official said the two helicopters were on the Afghan side of the border and were fired on from inside Pakistan. He said the helicopters only fired back after receiving fire twice.
North Waziristan is known to be a hub for Taliban and al-Qaida-linked militants who carry out attacks in neighboring Afghanistan. The tribal region repeatedly has been targeted by U.S. drone strikes.
Pakistan's army lodged a protest Tuesday and demanded a meeting with NATO on the alleged cross-border attack. Pakistan briefly closed the main land route for NATO supplies in Afghanistan after a similar incident last year in which two Pakistani soldiers were killed.
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IMF chief 'feared political opponent would pay a woman more than $1m to allege rape'
Mail Online
By Peter Allen
16th May 2011
By Peter Allen
16th May 2011
Dominique Strauss-Kahn feared that one of his political opponents would pay a woman more than $1million to say he raped her, it emerged today.
The extraordinary revelation emerged in Paris as the International Monetary Fund head remained in a New York police cell accused of launching a sex attack on a hotel maid.
A writer in the French capital has also come forward to say that the 62-year-old attempted to rape her a decade ago.
Revelations: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, centre, walks out of a New York City Police station after being arrested for allegedly sexually attacking a hotel maid
But as Strauss-Kahn faced a 15-year prison sentence - which would signify the end of his ambition to become French president next year - conspiracy theories abounded.
Liberation, the left-wing daily newspaper, published details on off-the-record comments made by Strauss-Kahn as recently as April 28th.
Discussing his plans to challenge Nicolas Sarkozy as Socialist candidate for the presidency in 2012, he said he imagined ‘a woman who had been raped in a car park and who was offered between €500,000 and €1,000,000 to make up such a story.’
Because he was the clear favourite to beat Mr Sarkozy, Strauss-Kahn feared he would be subjected to a smear campaign by the President and his Interior Minister, Glaude Gueant.
Gerald Celente: Raping – Part of IMF Business
Russia Today
Monday, May 16, 2011
The head of the International Monetary Fund has been charged with sexual attack, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment. New York police pulled Dominique Strauss-Kahn from a plane minutes before he was due to fly to Paris, and questioned him on suspicion of assaulting a hotel maid. RT talks to Gerald Celente, the director of the Trends Research Institute in New York.
Monday, May 16, 2011
The head of the International Monetary Fund has been charged with sexual attack, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment. New York police pulled Dominique Strauss-Kahn from a plane minutes before he was due to fly to Paris, and questioned him on suspicion of assaulting a hotel maid. RT talks to Gerald Celente, the director of the Trends Research Institute in New York.
IMF Dominique Strauss-kahn Arrested on Sexual Assault Charges
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!!!
Mark Matheny
May 15, 2011
Mark Matheny gives his view on why Dominique has been accused of sexual assault on a hotel maid.
Mark Matheny
May 15, 2011
Mark Matheny gives his view on why Dominique has been accused of sexual assault on a hotel maid.
The Patriot Act Is at War with the Constitution
May 11, 2011
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| Bruce Fein is a constitutional scholar and served as the associate deputy attorney general under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1982 and as general counsel to the Federal Communications Commission. He is cofounder of the American Freedom Agenda and writes weekly columns for The Washington Times and Politico.com. His forthcoming book American Empire, Before the Fall will be published by Campaign for Liberty. |
STATEMENT OF BRUCE FEIN
ON BEHALF OF CAMPAIGN FOR LIBERTY
RE: THE USA PATRIOT ACT: DISPELLING THE MYTHS
BEFORE THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
MAY 11, 2011
ON BEHALF OF CAMPAIGN FOR LIBERTY
RE: THE USA PATRIOT ACT: DISPELLING THE MYTHS
BEFORE THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
MAY 11, 2011
I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on behalf of the Campaign for Liberty about the USA Patriot Act. Provoked largely by the gruesome abominations of 9/11, the legislation was born of fear and uncertainty from abroad. Fear, however, is the fount of tyranny. James Madison, father of the Constitution, warned centuries ago in opposing the tyrannical Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: "Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger real or pretended from abroad." At the constitutional convention of 1787, Madison similarly recognized the inclination of government to wave a banner of foreign danger to excuse the destaruction of domestic liberties: "The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people."
The 342-page USA Patriot Act passed without inquiry into whether arming the government with muscular investigatory tools justified the corresponding intrusions on the right to be left alone -- the right most valued by civilized people. The Patriot Act was portrayed as a necessary defense against foreign agents and international terrorists. Citizen liberties were relegated to extras in a Cecil B. De Mille cinematic extravaganza. Despite the good intentions of its architects, the Patriot Act betrays bedrock constitutional principles. The individual is the center of the Constitution's universe. Aggrandizing government is the center of the Patriot Act.
The Constitution salutes freedom and citizen sovereignty over absolute safety and citizen vassalage. The Patriot Act turns that hierarchy on its head. Where experience and facts are inconclusive as regards the need for government authority, the Constitution's default position is liberty. Under the Patriot Act, if a threat passes a microscopic threshold of danger, a Big Brother government is exalted, a descendant of the 1% doctrine. The authorization of "lone wolf"surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is exemplary. It has never been employed, yet it is defended as a cornerstone of the nation's defense against a second edition of 9/11.
Ron Paul 2012 Favorite?
RT News
May 13, 2011
May 13, 2011
Ron Paul's bid for 2012 is now breaking news with almost all the mainstream media. But back in 2008, there were only few places where one could see Ron Paul - RT among them. It seems people are looking at the GOP candidate seriously now and giving him a lot of authority. Brian Doherty, the senior editor of the Reason Magazine, says Paul is a strong potential candidate.
NY Police Arrest IMF Head in Hotel Sexual Assault Case
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International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested Sunday in connection with the violent sexual assault of a hotel maid
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FOXNews.com
Published May 15, 2011
NEW YORK -- The leader of the International Monetary Fund and a possible candidate for president of France was pulled from an airplane moments before he was to fly to Paris and was arrested Sunday in connection with the violent sexual assault of a hotel maid, police said.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was taken off the Air France flight at John F. Kennedy International Airport by officers from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and was turned over to police for questioning Saturday afternoon, said Paul J. Browne, New York Police Department spokesman.
Strauss-Kahn was arrested at 2:15 a.m. Sunday on charges of a criminal sex act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment, and was awaiting arraignment, police said. His lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, did not immediately respond to phone or email messages seeking comment from The Associated Press. "We have not yet been able to meet with our client and we may have more to say tomorrow," Brafman told The New York Times late Saturday.
The 32-year-old woman told authorities that she entered Strauss-Kahn's suite at the luxury Sofitel hotel not far from Manhattan's Times Square at about 1 p.m. Eastern time Saturday and he attacked her, Browne said. She said she had been told to clean the spacious $3000-a-night-suite suite, which she had been told was empty.
According to an account the woman provided to police, Strauss-Kahn emerged from the bathroom naked, chased her down a hallway and pulled her into a bedroom, where he began to sexually assault her. She said she fought him off, then he dragged her into the bathroom, where he forced her to perform oral sex on him and tried to remove her underwear. The woman was able to break free again and escaped the room and told hotel staff what had happened, authorities said. They called police.
Birth certificate doesn't meet Hawaii standards
Image White House released 'may not be a certified copy'
A previously unexplained anomaly in the Obama long-form birth certificate released by the White House has now become even more suspicious, as WND has learned the document does not conform to Hawaii's standard practice for issuing certified copies of birth certificates.
While the governor's office maintains Obama was given a certified copy of his birth certificate, and while Hawaii – WND has learned – includes an embossed seal to complete the certification, the raised seal on the image posted by the White House … is missing.
Furthermore, an official with the Vital Statistics Section of Hawaii's Department of Health told WND, a document without the seal "may not be a certified copy."
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