[This is the reality of our lives. And still a majority of Americans still don't care. Are you waiting for your road signs to be written in a foreign language. The stores are already adding Spanish to their signs. It's happening. What are you going to do?]
Posted in It's Caught on Video
Tagged America, American Government, Louisiana, United States
post by Lee Bellinger, Publisher Independent Living
[My commentary at the end of this post may get under your skin a bit. It may even piss you off. It is the intention. Go forth, yell back. I don't really care. I'm a Confederate! Proud one. Hear me roar!]
As the puppet's spending orgy sinks America deeper into financial turmoil, he is about to turn Uncle Sam's acute funding crisis into your problem.
In fact, the puppet’s Treasury and Labor Departments just held outrageous, executive branch hearings on nationalization of retirement accounts, and they are actively looking for the opportunity to ram this asset grab through. Your nest egg is in their cross-hairs; you know, to protect you from losing your own money. Congressional heavyweights such as Rep. George Miller (D-CA) have already held hearings on merging 401(k)s, IRAs, and other tax-advantaged private savings programs into the failed Social Security program. That’s why it’s absolutely vital you take a quick moment today to sign the Keep Obama’s Hands Off My Retirement Account petition to Congress.
In my 23+ years of exposing government attacks on assets for discerning Americans, trust me when I tell you that we all need to tell Congress in no uncertain terms—don’t let the puppet get his grubby hands into my retirement accounts!
Here’s what is going on. The cash-strapped the puppet administration’s unofficial 401(k) nationalization czar is utopian New School for Social Research academic Teresa Ghilarducci—who was dubbed by U.S. News and World Report as “the most dangerous woman in America” after she appeared before Congress to testify in favor of government seizing 401(k)s and other retirement assets.
The “most dangerous woman in America”—who helped the puppet rip off GM bond holders now wants your retirement money! Following her Congressional testimony at a 2008 hearing to begin ending 401(k) and IRA tax advantages, Ghilarducci admitted on conservative talk show host Wilbur Kirby’s KVI 570 show in Seattle the truth about the left’s scheme for gaining control of private retirement accounts—“I’m just rearranging the tax breaks that are available now for the 401(k)s and spreading [here she paused briefly to consider her words] spreading the wealth…”
It is vital you sign our grassroots petition right away! The puppet administration officials and their leftist allies in Congress have zeroed in on over $15 trillion in 401(k)s, IRAs, 403(b)s, and other accounts—and only a grassroots bonfire of opposition will ultimately stop them. Why? Major State pension funds, state governments, and the entire federal entitlement program structure are on the verge of collapse and in need of bailouts due to collapsing tax revenues.This massive theft is underway—help me stop them!
In addition to the Congressional hearings referenced above—and an “automatic IRA” bill introduced in August by Senator John Kerry (D-MA)—the puppet’s bureaucrats are working furiously on new regulations (CFR, Part 1, RIN 1545-BJ04) to herd unsuspecting 401(k)/IRA holders’ money into government-approved investments, such as federal government debt. The mainstream media have totally blown off this story.
My name is Lee Bellinger, publisher of the nation’s fastest-growing financial and self-reliance intelligence newsletter for savvy, freedom-loving investors, Independent Living. My monthly intelligence advisory has become the largest newsletter of its type in America. Independent Living warned our readers well in advance about the housing bubble, the probable collapse of the banking system, and many other wealth-destroying threats.
[Okay, I buy this. Why would Bellinger scare us? For what reason? I signed his petition. It's all about control. You've read this opinion of mind time and time again on this blog. You have to open your eyes. I know...I know, you prefer drinking with your buddies, going to the camp every weekend. You prefer shopping, playing video games, watching your favorite shows on TV—anything but talking politics. Believe me, I know. I also know that you feel safe, secure, comfortable. Funny thing, so did those in Germany as Hitler, on the other side of the country, was perfecting his murdering art. Don't take life for granted. A message constantly told to me because I like my cigars. What about freedom? Shouldn't you take that for granted as well? Have you ever been in a situation where you were the boss, where you had the power to direct people and tell them what to do for a change? Do you remember how it felt? Thank of that feeling times ten. If you had that kind of power, would you give it up? History tells up that "no" you wouldn't, in fact, you would seek more. It's the means to an end. It's self-destruction at its best. Yes, you feel good for a while, but then it leads to lies, cover-ups, deception, and, sometimes, murder, to get to that bigger power. Washington is at this stage right now. Do you want to be on the other side of that kind of power? Just thought I'd ask.]
You need to get involved now—don’t be a sitting duck, Today, I am sounding the alarm because millions of Americans stand to lose trillions of their own dollars. I desperately need your help to stop them. Your assets and your financial future are directly on the line!
Sign our urgent petition to Congress right away. I am committed to sending at least 1 million petitions to Congress, talk show radio hosts, and the puppet Administration. Over the coming months, my national petition drive will touch millions of U.S. households. Our message—You will pay a political price if you even thing of stealing our 401(k)s, IRAs, and Retirements Accounts and dumping them into government bonds. Trust me when I tell you this is a winnable fight. Congress needs to be told in no uncertain terms that we will not let them turn our private savings into an ATM machine for spend-thrift politicians.
Don’t wait for this freight train to hit you. Make your voice heard now. Sign and submit your petition now, before a new financial crisis gives the puppet administration the cover it needs to ram this outrageous retirement nationalization scheme through! P.S. The puppet administration officials are desperately looking for new suckers to pay for their trillion dollar deficits. That’s why they want to nationalize our retirement accounts. We must stop them!
[Northern BS. Another robbery underway for sure. This is a good example of why the South needs to break away. American citizens should not have to fight for their retirement plans. The government had no business interfering in private industry and it has no business interfering in the retirement plans of private individuals. All that money take from us and handed over to corporations, you think we will ever see any of it? Do you really think their explanation of helping the citizen is fact? Do you really think you'll see your money again if you allow their hands further in your pocket?
I had a pissed off morning today that has connects here. God† does have funny ways of testing us and funny ways of opening our eyes to truth. Our electric company hired a tree cutting company to trim trees around the power lines. Well, these four tree-cutting trucks were blocking my drive way so I went to see what the problem was. Lord and behold! Four trucks, two people in each truck and only 1 could barely speak a word of English! All Mexicans. I raised all kinds of hell! My Christian morals went out the door. God† should just strike me down right now! I asked them all if they were legal. None were! I asked the one who could understand if he had a visa. Yes, he did (didn't see it) and had been working on it for 5 years. I asked him if he paid taxes, he first said yes. I asked him how since he needed a Social Security number to pay taxes. He then changed his mind. So, he's working in the United States, in Louisiana, and getting paid doing an American job and not paying taxes but enjoying the benefits our taxes provide. Then I asked if he got paid in cash or by check. By check he said. I asked him if he had a checking account. Yes. How about a savings account. Yes. My question—How in the hell can he have a checking and a savings account here in America without a Social Security card. Okay another one—How can he have a driver's license without a Social Security number. What makes him more special than me? I have to have a f...king Social Security number to do every freaking thing in this country. So, these foreign people come here and don't have to have one, use all our privileges and don't have the pay the price for them!
I made him call his boss and get him over here. He did. I made him really nervous, but I could see the others sitting on their trucks laughing. Laughing! The "boss" arrives, Oh! my God! an American. Why don't you have someone who speaks English on these trucks? I yell. Why don't you have Americans working for you? I yell. He calmly says that no American wants to work. But that's not all. There was another "boss" with less pull. He was the one sent to speak to me after this encounter. I guess the other one didn't want to risk my questioning again, or thought he was too good to answer them. Which ever, I had to face the other one. I ask him the same questions. For 3 years he had no crew, he responded, so his company went out of the country to find employees. Okay, how did you advertise for these jobs, I asked. Through the newspaper. A little fact, I get read the newspaper, in fact, I read all of them. No advertisements for this company. No posted signs on the store or recruiting in the high schools for young men to earn money. I have a young man fresh out of high school. He took a stock-boy job because there was nothing else offered. Oh another fact—as a former teacher, let me give you the truth—I have rarely seen a high school young man read a newspaper!
But that's not all. Yesterday, I encountered the phone-book delivery people. Guess? All Mexicans. Delivering our phone books! I was walking (exercise) at the time and near our trail is our little community sheriff station. The detective is a very good friend of mind. Why do they have Mexicans delivering our phone books, I ask. Because no American wants the job, he said.
So, let me get this straight. All of our tax money used to repair roads, pay Social Security to our sick and elderly, fix our parks, help us when we lose our jobs, etc. is given to corporations who f...ed up and was in a bind (I was in a bind recently and there was no government helping me!), without any normal citizen's approval. The government then deciding our health care is now a God†-given right and that they should now monitor it because they are the next-best thing to God† himself! Of course, this done without any normal citizen's approval. Then the government gives away our money, that we pay into the Social Security program so that when we retire, we'll have something to fall back on, to illegal immigrants who are living, working, and using all our hospitals, schools, etc. but not paying into the system themselves. Then our government is forcing us to pay for the very air we breath by taxing our energy. From the horses mouth, raising the taxes on gas and oil will force the Americans to buy green. Then the government has total disregard to the protection of our borders and refuses to help an American State in trouble. Now the government is trying to seize our personal retirement money.
I ask my Southern family, do you think an election of people who will go to Washington after they are elected will make a difference? We send honest, hard working people all the time to Washington. The problem is the town of Washington is totally corrupted and it doesn't take long before they get their hands on these honest folks and turn them. If you don't see this, you are blind. If you think an election with millions and millions of dollars involved not only from the States but for feign countries as well will help this country, you are wrong. China owns our debt! China owns the United States of America! But, yet, the government is still spending billions of dollars. So, where are they getting the money from? Who else is loaning money to America? I can easily bet it's Saudi Arabia. You think I'm wrong? They put a Moslem in the White House. They are moving their people onto our soil faster than you can say '"free."
The logic of this country is beyond me. I've studied what the men who started this country wanted and this isn't it. Jefferson said, need I remind you, that this country needs a war every 200 years to keep itself straight. I think we are a bit behind schedule. The Constitution has been destroyed, the federal government is totally corrupted, foreign countries own our debt, foreign illegal people have more rights than an American citizen. You can't say the puppet did all of this. Congress is mostly responsible. The Supreme Court is mostly responsible. Congress could impeach the puppet if they thought he was wrong, but they aren't because the puppet is just that, the puppet. He is just a lonely little man with no experience in the real world of American politics. He's just an instrument for the corruption of Washington and Chicago and, I should say, Hollywood. Yes, he's just a puppet, a stupid little Moslem who has no idea what type of game he's playing in. People think the world politics is corrupt, that's nothing compared to America's.
Think I'm wrong. Go read the Constitution. There's nothing the even resembles the original except for a few Bill of Rights. You tell me if there's an America left? I don't see one. My Confederate war flag went up this month on a 22-foot pole. Actions do speak louder than words.]
Posted in U.S. Economics
Tagged America, American Government, christians, Election 2010, Finance, Louisiana
post by David Zanotti, President & CEO, The American Policy Roundtable
The journey began on July 3rd, 2009 in a little town called Hanoverton where MoveOutCongress.com was launched. The goal was and remains to find new leaders willing to place principle over party and to uphold the Declaration, the Constitution and the principles upon which they stand. Thousands of people across America have joined this effort since that day. Never before have we seen such participation. Just yesterday we were at an event at ground zero in Central Florida. In the heart of the heated 8th Congressional District, we met with citizen leaders working for new leadership in America. Both candidates for the U.S. House were invited to join in the meeting. Only Dan Webster showed up. He stayed for the entire event, shaking hands with every person and answering every question.
When asked about the Taliban Dan attack ads aired by his opponent, Webster refused to attack in return. He stated that he was running a campaign based on the issues and would not surrender the high ground and go negative against incumbent Congressman Alan Grayson. He stuck strictly to the issues. Afterwards, a group joined together to pray for Webster and his opponent, and for all members of Congress.
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This morning we were in middle Tennessee, another key region in the battle for the Mid-South. After The American Mission Class®, people poured out to pick up iVoters.com yard signs to place across the community. In Western Pennsylvania and Northeast Ohio, television ads are running right now—helping thousands discover iVoters.com in these final hours of decision.
The focus of the Midwest is once again turning to the tiny historic village of Hanoverton, Ohio, the birthplace of MoveOutCongress. A Hanoverton town hall meeting is scheduled for this Saturday, October 30th, featuring several of the most surprising races for Congress in the whole nation. The media reports that a handful of mostly unknown Ohio candidates are now in position to upset incumbents and turn three Congressional seats. Some of these people we knew before they were candidates, back when people laughed at them out loud. My how things have changed.
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Posted in A Fight for Freedom
Tagged American Government, Election 2010, Louisiana, politics
[Very interesting...it's worth reading it.]
Posted in There's videos Too
Tagged America, christians, climate, earth, Louisiana, Science, Weather
post by David Deming, a geophysicist and associate professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma,
on Sott.com May 13, 2009
“Short of a catastrophic asteroid impact, the greatest threat to the human race is the onset of another ice age….Global warming predictions by meteorologists are based on speculative, untested, and poorly constrained computer models….Our knowledge of ice ages is based on a wide variety of reliable data, including cores from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.…By reducing our production of carbon dioxide, we risk hastening the advent of the next ice age. Even more foolhardy and dangerous is the puppet administration’s announcement that they may try to cool the planet through geoengineering. Such a move in the middle of a cooling trend could provoke the irreversible onset of an ice age. It is not hyperbole to state that such a climatic change would mean the end of human civilization as we know it.”
Those who ignore the geologic perspective do so at great risk. In fall of 1985, geologists warned that a Columbian volcano, Nevado del Ruiz, was getting ready to erupt. But the volcano had been dormant for 150 years. So, government officials and inhabitants of nearby towns did not take the warnings seriously.
On the evening of November 13, Nevado del Ruiz erupted, triggering catastrophic mudslides. In the town of Armero, 23,000 people were buried alive in a matter of seconds. For ninety percent of the last million years, the normal state of the Earth’s climate has been an ice age. Ice ages last about 100,000 years, and are punctuated by short periods of warm climate, or interglacials. The last ice age started about 114,000 years ago. It began instantaneously. For a hundred-thousand years, temperatures fell and sheets of ice a mile thick grew to envelop much of North America, Europe and Asia. The ice age ended nearly as abruptly as it began. Between about 12,000 and 10,000 years ago, the temperature in Greenland rose more than 50°F.
We don’t know what causes ice ages to begin or end. In 1875, a janitor turned geologist, James Croll, proposed that small variations in Earth’s orbit around the Sun were responsible for climate change. This idea enjoyed its greatest heyday during the 1970s, when ocean sediment cores appeared to confirm the theory. But in 1992, Ike Winograd and his colleagues at the U.S. Geological Survey falsified the theory by demonstrating that its predictions were inconsistent with new, high-quality data. The climate of the ice ages is documented in the ice layers of Greenland and Antarctica. We have cored these layers, extracted them, and studied them in the laboratory. Not only were ice ages colder than today, but the climates were considerably more variable. Compared to the norm of the last million years, our climate is remarkably warm, stable and benign. During the last ice age in Greenland abrupt climatic swings of 30°F were common. Since the ice age ended, variations of 3°F are uncommon.
For thousands of years, people have learned from experience that cold temperatures are detrimental for human welfare and warm temperatures are beneficial. From about 1300 to 1800 AD, the climate cooled slightly during a period known as the Little Ice Age. In Greenland, the temperature fell by about 4°F. Although trivial, compared to an ice age cooling of 50°F, this was nevertheless sufficient to wipe out the Viking colony there. In northern Europe, the Little Ice Age kicked off with the Great Famine of 1315. Crops failed due to cold temperatures and incessant rain. Desperate and starving, parents ate their children, and people dug up corpses from graves for food. In jails, inmates instantly set upon new prisoners and ate them alive.
The Great Famine was followed by the Black Death, the greatest disaster ever to hit the human race. One-third of the human race died; terror and anarchy prevailed. Human civilization as we know it is only possible in a warm interglacial climate. Short of a catastrophic asteroid impact, the greatest threat to the human race is the onset of another ice age.
The oscillation between ice ages and interglacial periods is the dominant feature of Earth’s climate for the last million years. But the computer models that predict significant global warming from carbon dioxide cannot reproduce these temperature changes. This failure to reproduce the most significant aspect of terrestrial climate reveals an incomplete understanding of the climate system, if not a nearly complete ignorance. Global warming predictions by meteorologists are based on speculative, untested, and poorly constrained computer models. But our knowledge of ice ages is based on a wide variety of reliable data, including cores from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. In this case, it would be perspicacious to listen to the geologists, not the meteorologists. By reducing our production of carbon dioxide, we risk hastening the advent of the next ice age. Even more foolhardy and dangerous is the puppet administration’s announcement that they may try to cool the planet through geoengineering . Such a move in the middle of a cooling trend could provoke the irreversible onset of an ice age. It is not hyperbole to state that such a climatic change would mean the end of human civilization as we know it.
Earth’s climate is controlled by the Sun. In comparison, every other factor is trivial. The coldest part of the Little Ice Age during the latter half of the seventeenth century was marked by the nearly complete absence of sunspots. And the Sun now appears to be entering a new period of quiescence. August of 2008 was the first month since the year 1913 that no sunspots were observed. As I write, the sun remains quiet. We are in a cooling trend. The areal extent of global sea ice is above the twenty-year mean. We have heard much of the dangers of global warming due to carbon dioxide. But the potential danger of any potential anthropogenic warming is trivial compared to the risk of entering a new ice age. Public policy decisions should be based on a realistic appraisal that takes both climate scenarios into consideration.
David Deming is a geophysicist and associate professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma
Posted in What? An Ice Age?
Tagged America, christians, climate, earth, Louisiana, Weather
post by sott.net, May 7, 2010
As regular readers of SOTT are aware, we collect weather reports from around the world which often point to weird weather occurring in locations experiencing unseasonable weather. This week there has been an especially weird spike in reports of sudden cold and snow affecting many areas of North America and Europe! We think this dramatically illustrates the alarming speed with which the weather can change from stable, warm and dry conditions to turbulent, cold and wet conditions. Global news networks are churning out endless reports on the UK election, the financial shock waves hitting Europe and the Times Square hysteria over some fireworks left in a car. What is not being reported prominently are the unprecedented freak weather events happening around across the northern hemisphere: hail, sleet and snow slamming southern California, deluges devastating the central cities of Nashville in the US and Hunan in China, the Korean Peninsula shivering with a record-low spring chill and reports of snow in Mexico and France.
Are these just unseasonal conditions, an immediate knock-on effect from the recent volcanic eruption in Iceland perhaps? Or are we on the brink of entering an ice age as SOTT has been predicting for a number of years? Was the sudden flip this week—”as though a switch had been thrown”—a taster of the Ice Age to come? Is this ‘mini Winter rebound’ pointing out how suddenly glacial rebound can develop? When will we approach the tipping point as more volcanoes erupt and magma comes up from the ocean floor?
Laura Knight-Jadczyk explains the mechanism that can precipitate sudden climate change towards an Ice Age. “That’s the hard science. There’s going to be the day. It’s already happening. The magnetic field is degenerating. That means magma is going to start welling up under the oceans. It’s already happening because it’s heating the oceans up. When the oceans start heating up, that means more evaporation. When that happens at the same time that the planet is being clouded by volcanic eruptions, which is cooling the atmosphere, you have precipitation that comes down as snow.
“The geological record shows that the onset of every ice-age was so sudden as to be unbelievable. In other words, next winter could be the winter when a lot of undersea volcanoes begin to erupt and dump magma into the oceans. A lot of evaporation takes place. If it happens in the winter time that means that snow can fall in amounts that are beyond your wildest imagining. It’s happened! It’s geologically a fact. It’s happened repeatedly. Can you imagine 9 stories of snow in a single day?”
Below are local weather reports with eyewitness comments from some of our forum members situated in diverse locations across Europe and North America. The first shocker this week came with reports of snow in the south of France. Snow anywhere in Europe in May is unusual, but near the Mediterranean coast? In May?!
We couldn’t quite believe that it was snowing in the south of France—along valley floors and thus near sea level—so we checked it out for ourselves. It’s snowing in southern France… in May! Yep, it’s been snowing in southern France! The locals say they’ve never seen anything like it. One forum member there reported something interesting about the texture of snow
The wave of the century—While snow and hail was falling further inland, waves from 6 to 10 meters were reported all along the French Mediterranean coastline—Cannes struggles to prepare for film festival as unseasonal wind, 10 meter high waves, hail and snow batter France’s Cote d’Azur
“We are lost for words. [The waves] came very quickly. It was calm and then suddenly it started and we didn’t have time to prepare.” Locals agreed that the waves were the biggest seen on the Côte d’Azur for years, if not decades, and were unusual at this time of year….René Colomban, president of the Promenade des Anglais beach attendants’ union, said he had not seen anything like it since 1959….
Yesterday, to the amazement of the south-western town’s residents, snow fell in Carcassonne. The ferocity of the storm in southern France produced gales of up to 130 km per hour and dumped up to 20 cm of snow (9 inches) on the lower valleys of the Pyrenées.
Another member reports on the sudden turn in the weather in Spain.
What about further north?
And in the UK?
Surely this is a regional phenomenon, a freak event unique to western Europe perhaps? Apparently not, as wintry weather came to the most unlikely of regions, like southern California.
Surely it’s not snowing in the deserts of Arizona?!
At least this atmospheric shock is pleasant for some then! But wait, what’s this..? It’s snowing in northern Mexico? In May?! It’s snowing in Mexico in May! …snowfall in 18 municipalities. The snow reached 18 centimeters in Ignacio Zaragoza and 12 centimeters in Gomez Farías…. In the state capital [of Chihuahua], the weather phenomenon took people by surprise, since for 32 years it did not snow in May…. In the capital, a light rain began between 4:00 and 5:00 am, with a temperature of 3° Celsius and a wind chill of -2°….
The Pacific Northwest this week equalled or broke the coldest recorded temperatures from this past winter (which was, remember, one of the coldest winters in memory!)
Canada might expect occasional late flurries of winter snow, but even residents there are struck by the sudden plunge in temperatures.
Rather than dream about what we wish the weather could or should be, let’s continue to pay attention to the weather as it is! That way we might be able to see when the Ice Age Cometh and be better prepared to acclimatize, psychologically more than anything else.
Posted in What? An Ice Age?
Tagged America, christians, climate, earth, Louisiana, Science, snowing, Weather, winter
