tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43035079298257524412024-03-12T21:14:58.084-07:00RACE RELATIONSThis blog will examine most of the inequities involving the law, immigrations, education, employment, political, health care. It will showcase current news events concerning US and world economic, Middle-eastern revolt issues while trying to explain and resolve those issues.Bobby Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189102534824566345noreply@blogger.comBlogger697125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303507929825752441.post-81752284265381671402015-10-23T08:38:00.001-07:002015-10-23T08:38:40.880-07:00What's In A Name?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The misuse and abuse of “birth certificates” and their misrepresentation as “voluntary private contracts” has led to the literal enslavement of hundreds of millions of people worldwide almost a hundred years after slavery was universally outlawed. These issues of economic slavery and “slavery via corporate proxy” must be addressed and the mechanisms used to promote this abuse must be dismantled.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The registration of live births in America and throughout the former British Empire, most of Europe, and Japan is used not to simply record the birth of babies, but to name commercial “vessels” after those babies. These proxy entities may be variously constructed as estate trusts, foreign situs trusts, or even public transmitting utilities—- the creators of these incorporated entities named after living children then operate these corporations and accrue debts that they false charge against the living people using the deceitfully similar name as a means to defraud the victims. This is a bunko crime known as “<a href="http://presscore.ca/when-you-were-born-your-government-forged-your-name-and-created-a-birth-certificate-bond" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">personage</span></a>”—knowingly “mistaking on purpose” a living man for a corporation using the same or similar name— for example, mistaking a man named “James Clarence Penny” for the retail department store doing business as “JC PENNY”.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The corollary crime routinely practiced by attorneys and barristers is known as “barratry”—knowingly bringing charges against this corporate proxies “as if” they were the same as the living people they are named after, and addressing those same people as defendents in civil and criminal actions. This is the tip of the iceberg of the harm that is routinely done to living people via the misuse of incorporated proxy entities merely named after them. It is a venal institutionalized fraud scheme that must be recognized for what it is and attacked by every peaceful and determined means possible.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When a friends son was born she was presented with the paperwork that all new Mothers are coerced to sign. When she refused she was bluntly told by two menacing interns and a an O.B.G.Y.N. that she either sign or her son would be kept in State custody and she would not be allowed to take him home. Bear in mind that she was a successful 33 year old married career woman with no criminal record, no addiction problems, no history of mental illness. There was and is no possible excuse for the way she and millions of other American women are treated and the extortion used to secure an inequitable, involuntary, and unconscionable “public” commercial interest in our babies as a chattel properties being <a href="https://missiongalacticfreedom.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/your-birth-certificate-was-made-into-a-bond-its-worth-billions-proof-all-of-your-debt-is-pre-paid/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">bonded</span></a> and used as collateral to finance the “public debt” of these private governmental services corporations pretending to be the American government.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Those responsible were and are criminals engaged in press-ganging land assets into the international jurisdiction of the sea, inland piracy, enslavement, human trafficking, unlawful conversion, extortion, racketeering, armed robbery, kidnapping, commercial fraud, and conspiracy against The Constitution for the United States of America. Every single person involved in this needs to be charged and arrested and thrown in jail without further delay, but the police are employed by the same privately owned and operated corporations that are benefitting themselves from these gross abuses.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That is, the police forces that we depend upon to enforce the Public Law are operating instead as private commercial mercenaries, not as public peacekeeping officers at all. The foxes are indeed guarding the hen houses of America, a circumstance that again requires awareness and action by the body politic to resolve.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As I have explained, the organizations we are dealing with are governmental services corporations—- not our lawful government. They are merely claiming to “represent” our government in the absence of our actual government, which is owed to us, and which must be provided by us. This addresses the heart of what “self-government” means.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Every living American has more civil authority on the land jurisdiction of the Continental United States than the entire Federal United States government. It’s time that we exercised that inherent power and put an end to this gross criminality, fraud, and usurpation by our “public servants”.</span></div>
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Americans are increasingly uneasy about race relations in the United States,
ranking that as the nation's number one problem along with unemployment,
according to a recent Gallup poll.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Much
of our concern, which began growing last year, is driven by highly publicized
police shooting of unarmed black men, also in the news a lot over the last five
years.</span><br />
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fact that race relations ranks so high is not surprising because of how often
the news and entertainment media highlight stories that associate black men
with violence, crime and poverty, yet I
believe that all races and genders suffer from the same epidemic as does our
black communities coast to coast, "Now, Ain't That American?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When
mostly black males are focused on and portrayed everywhere we look in a
negative light, our brains -no matter our race or sex - are prone and primed to
believe that this portrayal is correct, even the norm, But the fact is,, it's
not. Not by a long shot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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way to address the problem is to "update" the narrative with a more
full picture of "us" black men and our black teenage boys.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For
example: more than 80% of black men 25 and older have at least a high school
diploma. And a much repeated myth that there are <a href="http://oicw65-racerelations.blogspot.com/2012/04/blackwhitetwo-nations-how-about-facts.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">more black men in prison than in college isn't true</span></a>, and if you believe in that liberal disinformation, then,
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The
U.S. is bursting with black men that are educated, good businessmen and great
fathers, yet their contributions to society are greatly overlooked. So that's
why America needs to update the way it views black men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The
nation is in the middle of perhaps its biggest cultural transfer in history.
Over the coming years, the baby boomers will give way to the
"millennials" as the largest generation in history. As that happens,
America will no longer have a racial majority. All of the social myths will
be updated for better or worse. If we
make a concerted effort to understand each other over the next decade, I think
we can change them for the better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Recognizing
that <a href="http://oicw65-racerelations.blogspot.com/2011/12/great-debacles-of-society.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">black men are assets</span></a> opens up opportunities for all people to build better
cities by working with those black men who are willing to uphold important
values and take constructive action. We must stop ignoring the overwhelming
amount of good that black men do for our country. Letting go of stereotypes
about black males will help more than just black males. Valuing all members of
the human family is the most prosperous way forward for a nation as diverse as
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nation, our challenges are real, but our contributions are more real. What you
focus on has power over your life. So, as black males and as Americans, we make
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Bobby Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189102534824566345noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303507929825752441.post-72177911473677813222015-02-06T10:28:00.003-08:002021-07-11T07:33:32.683-07:00Globalization And America's Hopes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Some people are nervous about globalization, and some people are just in denial. But it's impossible to escape it - the way the world seeps in. You can't fence the world out, and you can't fence yourself in, because technology knows no borders. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To fear globalization is to fear change and progress, but like it or not, change is a constant in our lives. It is often subtle, and as we've seen with Barack Obama, it can be quite abrupt. Now I don't know about you, but everytime I got secure and complacent, God threw me a curve. But looking back, I now see that it wasn't a curve, it was a challenge that I needed. I had to shake off my complacency and do what any good Marine would do, Adapt, Improvise and Overcome (ie) change. So whenever you hear someone saying "Let's keep doing things exactly the way we've always done things", standby, a shake-up is coming, and that's exactly how we got the ass clown we have now in the White House. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So the process of change is called globalization, or in other words, the erosion of national boundaries and reduced significance of a nation and its government, nowhere is this more evident than at our southern boarders. Yet before you can deal with change, you have to see it, and sometimes that's the hardest part - acknowledging and then accepting that the way you've always done things, or lived your life just won't work anymore. This is just a basis life lesson. It's true of individuals, families, communities and of course it's true of entire nations. There's plenty of historical examples of nations that got kicked in the ass because of their resistance to change, in fact I have gone back and tracked the success and failures of many nations in the world by how open they were to change. ( I emplore you to follow the link that I have provided here for an accurate understanding as to where I'm going with this article) . </span></span></div>
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Could there be a Christmas Eve surprise? </span><br />
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The possibility of an executive action by Obama committing the United States to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_Trade_Treaty" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">United Nations Arms Trade Treaty</span></a> maybe his next unconstitutional violation of our rights and laws. Also known as the U.N. “small arms treaty,” it is scheduled to go into effect Dec. 24 for those nations that have signed and ratified the document. </span><br />
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This blog post is to build public awareness, a petition drive and a threat of legal action against the president should he take action to ratify the U.N. treaty without Senate approval.
I'm here to educate and inform the public so people understand the threat that an Obama executive order poses to the Constitution.
Nobody elected Barack Obama as emperor, but his actions lately suggests he believes otherwise. If he has forgotten there are three branches of government, and I intend on refreshing his memory. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">A lawsuit would be the last option, but will be taken only if an executive order or action comes from Obama’s office. I think the president doesn’t care about abiding by the law, but there’s no doubt there’s only one way to hold him accountable, and that’s by taking him to court.
There's are not enough votes in the Senate to stop Obama, because it takes 60 votes to stop a filibuster by Democrats and allow legislation to come up for a vote.
That’s why we need to aim for the court system. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I knew from Day 1 the Obama administration wanted to push this treaty, but they didn’t want to get gun owners all up in arms before an election and mobilize the Republican base. Based on what he’s done with amnesty, we have reason to believe he’s doubling down on everything that he can’t get through Congress now, and he’s going to do it through executive orders or actions. </span><br />
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The U.N. arms treaty goes into effect internationally during the holiday season, when many Americans will be busy shopping, planning parties and celebrating.“So based on that, it gives him a window to do it now. </span><br />
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The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty requires nations to keep records tracking every transaction involving firearms.
Anti-gun organizations funded by billionaires such as Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates and George Soros have been pushing the administration to move on the U.N. arms treaty. Whether Obama’s executive action would literally amount to a ratification of the treaty or merely comply with its rules on tracking gun transactions is unclear, but either way the end result would be the same. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The pressure on the United States to comply with the treaty is not just coming from inside the country but internationally. The U.S. is the world’s largest arms producer with China and Russia rounding out the top three.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry took an active role in crafting the language of the treaty, and signed off on it last year, but it has never been ratified by the U.S. Senate as required by the U.S. Constitution.
They know they can’t get that, so they’re planning to do it by executive order. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Gun owners and myself haven’t trusted Obama from Day 1, and they have less reason to trust him now that he has a pen in his hand and is willing to do what he wants by executive order. His pen could be deadly to the Bill of Rights.
Obama has been threatened to use an Executive Order in an attempt to curb gun violence and ban guns since before he was elected in 2008. That of course would be all guns, and would be unconstitutional and infringe on our constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">If he were to do this without Congressional approval, some in Congress may try to have him impeached. There is no way that Obama has the authority to issue an executive order which supersedes an amendment to the constitution.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The Second Amendment was designed to protect us from an oppressive government by guaranteeing the citizenry a means to fight back if the need is warranted. The Second Amendment states; A well-regulated Militia states; being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">The Supreme Court has definitively held that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that weapon for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. Moreover, this right applies not just to the federal government, but to states and municipalities as well.
From a speech in 1788, by George Mason, one of the Founding Fathers of our country. To stop all the violence maybe all law-biding citizens should do their part and just turn in their guns, I’m sure the criminals and gang-bangers will do the same. What utter nonsense. I am for better gun laws, enforcing current laws and tougher sentencing though laws, enforcing current laws.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">But, a better way to stop lots of the violence would be to seriously address the ills of our society. It’s a sad commentary to have locked doors, armed guards and police in our schools, work places and stores. It has been suggested by the NRA that all schools should have armed guards. What a terrific expense and burden this would put on our school districts. Some school District have had police officers in their schools for over 5 years. As long as our nation’s leaders will not face the real problems and put blame on those who deserve blame, not much will be accomplished. Politicians should stop worrying about offending certain groups of people and stop playing to their voting base.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">We all know we can’t depend on our government, our military and even our police to fully protect us, so don’t even think about banning my guns. The majority of people in this country want to be able to protect themselves and their loved ones. Since all this gun control talk, gun sales have gone through the roof. Local sporting goods stores and firearms shops can’t keep enough ammo on their shelves. People are arming themselves to the teeth. </span><br />
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One last note: Today at a middle school here in Miami, one student stabbed another student. One more act of school violence, but this time no gun was involved.</span><br />
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Bobby Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189102534824566345noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303507929825752441.post-49913068382259568122014-09-24T11:47:00.000-07:002014-09-24T11:47:29.696-07:00The Problem With Black Folks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A white teacher said he routinely overhears vulgar and racist comments from students at an all black high school, I blame the black youth's negative mindset on blacks in the civil rights exploitation business and white liberals with their stomach-turning bigotry of lowered expectations.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We see snooty arrogant superior intellectual sounding white liberal pundits and hosts all over TV touting their absurd narrative that blacks have a right to be angry in racist America and must be coddled. These liberal celebs followed certain steps and behaviors to achieve success. And yet, they claim expecting blacks to follow the same road map to success is racist. Blacks should be repulsed by this liberal narrative which implies that we are inferior. I want to scream, who me!? I “be” as smart as any white person!” Sorry, I couldn't resist.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I have witnessed the same racist mindset in a white liberal couple who were longtime friends. They have had financial highs and lows in their efforts to run various businesses. They work hard and will take any job to pay their bills. Applying for government welfare is not on their radar. They employed horrible black employees, always making excuses for them; giving them a pass because they were black. I was amazed that they could not see the racism at the root of their low expectations, disguised as compassion.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">At every turn liberals send the message that blacks are lesser Americans. Liberals say it is hateful for conservatives/ Republicans to expect blacks to speak English correctly, show an ID to vote, refrain from murdering each other and stop dropping out of school. White liberals say asking blacks to refrain from having babies out of wedlock is culturally insensitive and imposes morality on them. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Libs ignore the truth that fatherless households contribute to gang membership, black on black violence and poverty. Do you see the pattern? White liberals insinuate that urban blacks are poor uncouth savages. Therefore, a 6'4” 290 pound black thug should be given a pass for robbing a convenience store, assaulting the clerk and attacking a police officer while on his way to grandma's house.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">By the way, 54% of black kids grow up in single parent households which was reported as high as 72% in 2010.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It has been observed that black students at a Baltimore middle school Diction was so lazy and poor that they had to ask several students numerous times to pronounce their names before it was understood what they were saying. Why was such lazy speech tolerated?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My late Grandfather was a pastor and a brilliant black man with only a eighth grade formal education; an avid reader and studier. Grand Daddy did not tolerate lazy or inarticulate speaking from me. Etched on my brain is his whipping my ass until the words I was reading came out sounding right. It wasn't abuse, it was preparing me for the hard future of being competitive in white America without the need of affirmative action.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Politically, white liberals pander to blacks to recruit Democrat voters which furthers their socialist/progressives agenda. Their sales pitch is every problem in the black community is caused by racist white America. Therefore, blacks can not achieve without big government intervention; lowered standards and entitlements to make things fair. I suspect secretly, many white liberals do believe they are superior.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">White students are taught to feel guilty for their “white privilege”; instructed to be tolerant of black anger and irresponsible behavior. Black students who do not resent white America are called stupid traitors to their race.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I've been asked by a fellow black student "have you ever met a white person you didn't like?” You guessed it, he was a liberal. Imagine the fallout had that same question been asked by a white person to a black person.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To all you liberal college professors and intellectuals who say blacks are still suffering the psychological repercussions of slavery, please knock it off. You evil race hustlers are all about exploiting the goodness and fair-mindedness of the American people.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Slavery happened a ga-zillion years ago; get over it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the late 1970's, my black college buddies and I were huge Star Trek fans. We loved watching the racially mixed crew of the star-ship Enterprise on which race was not an issue. Further making the point was the episode that white Captain Kirk kissed black Lieutenant Uhura which was historic being the first time that had ever happened and pretty racy and shocking on TV back then.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Gifting an unworthy black president two terms confirms that Americans long to be united as one nation under God. America's desire for national unity is sabotaged by liberals. Their modus operandi is to divide Americans into feuding angry voting blocs – rich vs poor, black vs white, employers vs employees; Americans convinced they are victims due to their race, gender or economic standing. Liberals consistently rip open“healed” racial civil rights wounds and pour in fresh salt, Now, isn't that fucked up?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Liberals have been feeding black America shit sandwiches for decades. Sadly a majority of my fellow black Americans blinded by decades of liberal indoctrination and Main Stream Media spin keep consuming their shit as if it is filet mignon.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For crying out loud, look at what liberals offer us. They did an extreme makeover packaging black thugs Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown; promoting them as heroes to black America. White liberals awarded an immoral black rapper (Flavor Flav) who had 11 babies by 10 women with his own reality TV show titled, “All My Babies' Mamas”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, liberals reject and even vilify excellent black role models like world renown retired neurosurgeon Dr Ben Carson and businessman extraordinaire Herman Cain. Why would liberals do that if they truly care about empowering blacks? Why do they offer us low rent faux black role models and reject the real deal?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Black America, you have been sleeping with the enemy, Democrats and white liberals, far too long. It is time to politically get out of bed, shower to wash away the stench of liberal racist low expectations and use Conservatism as the vehicle to speed to the fulfillment of your American dreams.</span><br />
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Bobby Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189102534824566345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303507929825752441.post-14348254537622613932014-09-17T06:58:00.000-07:002014-09-17T06:58:35.015-07:00Out Of Control Welfare Spending<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The U.S. Census Bureau released statistics showing nearly 110 million Americans lived in households receiving benefits from one or more welfare programs at the end of 2012. That amounts to roughly 35.4 percent of the population. The data show the programs with the most beneficiaries include Medicaid (nearly 83 million people), food stamps (more than 51 million) and the Women, Infants and Children program 22.5 million).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While the 2012 numbers do not represent a huge leap from recent reports, they do confirm the sheer size of U.S. public assistance expenditures this is about one-third of the American population that receives some type of means-tested welfare benefit, which is a huge number. We have a welfare system that continues to increase in cost. There are 80 different federally means-tested welfare programs, so it’s a very large welfare system, and I believes the government has a very wrongheaded approach to determining the success of these programs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, the federal government tends to measure welfare success by the number of people receiving benefits. I think that’s really the key issue here, the mentality that a huge welfare system is a successful welfare system.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Any lingering doubts about the deficiencies of Obamanomics can be dispelled with one piece of data: The U.S. has spent $3.7 trillion on welfare in the past five years, with virtually nothing to show for it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That cumulative spending on welfare during the Obama years has been five times greater than what's been spent on transportation, education and NASA — combined.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Maybe that shouldn't be surprising. Obama, after all, promised a "fundamental transformation" of America. He's fulfilled that promise with a vengeance.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Means-tested aid programs now number about 80. Food stamps, with more than 51 million recipients, have gotten the lion's share of recent attention. But that's just one of 15 food-aid programs. </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">No, I'm not against temporary help for truly desperate people. But welfare spending has grown year in and year out regardless of how the economy has performed or whether unemployment is up or down.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And a lot of welfare spending is pure waste. The IRS admitted to the disbursement of $335 billion in bogus payments over the past decade under the earned income tax credit — a kind of direct welfare transfer from taxpayers to low-income workers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, the welfare state will only grow. A Senate report earlier this year noted that, based on Congressional Budget Office projections, welfare spending will rise 80% over the next 10 years. That's $21 trillion in welfare spending over that time. Just cutting that growth to 60%, the report found, would save taxpayers $1 trillion. But, as we've seen, that won't happen.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yet, surely all this money must be making a dent in all the poverty. Nope. Today, 56.5 million Americans live in poverty and more than 70% of all federal spending goes to dependency programs, like Social Security and Medicare. At the same time, nearly half of all Americans no longer pay any federal income tax at all.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Logic tells us they have to be supported by (1) their own savings, (2) working children or spouses or (3) welfare.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The U.S., sadly, has become a nation of dependents, and Obamanomics is accelerating the process. With debt at $17 trillion and rising, more than $63 trillion in unfunded liabilities, and fewer workers to pay for it all we will soon be bankrupt.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A nation of welfare dependents who won't or can't work or pay taxes cannot prosper. Instead, it becomes stagnant and unproductive. We're well on our way to being some other countries bitch, so hats off to president Obama, this is that fundamental change he promised.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Theoretically, according to the doctrine, a condition of overwhelming tension and strain could be engineered through the overloading of American welfare rolls, thereby smothering the entitlement program structure at the state and local level. The implosion of welfare benefits would facilitate a massive spike in poverty and desperation, creating a financial crisis that would lead to an even greater cycle of demand for a fully socialized system. This desperation would then“force” the federal government to concentrate all welfare programs under one roof, nationalize and enforce a socialist ideology, and ultimately, compact an immense level of power into the hands of a select few.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Cloward-Piven Strategy has nothing to do with grassroots activism and accomplishes nothing tangible for the downtrodden poverty class. In fact I would dare to say that Cloward and Piven as well as most social engineers are well aware that the concept ultimately only serves to give even more dominance to the establishment and pilfer even more freedom from the masses.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The tactic of overwhelming the welfare structure REQUIRES the complicity of the government itself. A grassroots activist movement cannot and will never compel federal and state governments to expand welfare initiatives if they do not wish to. If welfare programs are not expanded beyond their capacity to be maintained, they cannot be overwhelmed. Therefore, government must cooperate with the Cloward-Piven Strategy by generating more and more welfare programs to be exploited. That is to say, the elitists who control our government, regardless of their claimed political party, must want to arrange circumstances to allow for Cloward-Piven to be successful.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;">But wait! Government, along with the aid or direction of central bankers, is able to create any level of poverty it wishes at any time by simply pretending to bungle everything it does. Once again Cloward-Piven ( much like</span><a href="http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm" target="_blank"> <span style="color: red;">Saul Alinsky</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">’s repertoire of propaganda scams) is far more useful to the power elite than it is to the common citizen.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, famously said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before…”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;">In light of the Cloward-Piven Strategy which is at its very core a method to artificially induce crisis, the otherwise insane policy actions of the Obama Administration and preceding puppet presidents now become perfectly logical. Obama, after all, has been a long time proponent of the methods of Saul Alinsky, the left wing gatekeeper equivalent to Neo-Con godfather Leo Strauss. Cloward and Piven were also both avid followers of Alinsky, who promoted lies, misdirection, subversion and abandonment of conscience in order to win social power at any cost(special note – Alinsky also dedicated his book ‘</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Cscript%20type=%22text/javascript%22%20src=%22http://wms-na.amazon-adsystem.com/20070822/US/js/link-enhancer-common.js?tag=racerela-20&linkId=NZAXNDXA727VEN4P%22%3E%20%3C/script%3E%20%3Cnoscript%3E%20%20%20%20%20%3Cimg%20src=%22http://wms-na.amazon-adsystem.com/20070822/US/img/noscript.gif?tag=racerela-20&linkId=NZAXNDXA727VEN4P%22%20alt=%22%22%20/%3E%20%3C/noscript%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Rules For Radicals</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">’ to Lucifer… yeah, to the fucking’ devil).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I examined much evidence suggesting that Obamacare was actually designed to fail, and that the bumbling of the Obama White House when dealing with the program was purely deliberate. When coupled with Obama’s handling of the current illegal immigration conflict, I would say that the Cloward- Piven Strategy is in full force.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Why fight tooth and nail against all common sense and history, why lie openly to millions of registered voters to get the program in place, only to allow it to derail because of a poorly designed website!? Because, Obama and his handlers know full well that it will end up costing the country billions that we cannot afford, and aid in a resulting crash.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Why the sudden surge of illegal immigrants into the U.S.? Why not! The White House has made it clear that it has every intention of keeping them within America by allowing the border patrol to ship the detained across the country where they are then released. Obama’s threat to use executive action to force through his own version of the immigration bill is the icing on the cake.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Amnesty is essentially guaranteed, I believe, in the near term, which is why tens of thousands of Central American parents are willing to send their children on a journey where they could very well be kidnapped by sex traffickers or killed. If the White House really wanted to stop this humanitarian crisis, the President would state publicly and clearly that America is not a drive through welfare center, that there will be no free goodies at the second window, and that there will be no chance of amnesty instead of diverting more agents to the border to ensure more illegals are shipped into the interior.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The president does not wish to stop the flood of immigrants exactly because Cloward-Piven requires their presence Not only would this officially add millions of people to welfare rolls, but I would venture to suggest that Obama will likely include automatic sign-up to universal healthcare as part of his amnesty measures.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Both Republican and Democratic regimes have made our current calamity possible, and the leaderships behind both parties are nothing more than paid mascots for international financiers and globalists who have a very different vision of what America should be.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If we allow ourselves to fall into the trap of making the developing crisis about a singularly unimportant man such as Obama, then the elites get exactly what they want – an angry and desperate citizenry out for the blood of a middleman and out for the blood of each other, while they sit back, relax, and wait to swoop in as our financial saviors with strings attached.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For those naïve enough to assume that Cloward-Piven is just a well intentioned activist method, it is important to understand that even if that were so, the effect of the Cloward- Piven Strategy will never achieve the goal its creators claimed to support. In my view, it is probable that they never really intended for it to produce wealth equality or an increased quality of life.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The tactic can only decrease wealth security by making all citizens equally destitute. As we have seen in numerous socialist and communist experiments over the past century, economic harmonization never creates wealth or prosperity, it only siphons wealth from one area and redistributes it to others evaporating much of it as it is squeezed through the grinding gears of the establishment machine.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, now Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa and Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas both agree that the Obama Administration’s policies are derived from a Cloward- Piven strategy — a strategy concocted by radical sociologists to crash the system and transform America into a socialist state.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“If you don’t see them bring reinforcements down there to seal the border, that means that, yes, it’s a Cloward-Piven maneuver to flood the country until we get to the point where we are an open-borders country that welcomes everybody, legal and illegal. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of ‘a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Border resources are already being overwhelmed. The House Homeland Security Chair is calling it a “crisis like nothing I’ve ever seen”. A potential pandemic is becoming more likely by the day, as people crossing into the country are reportedly infected with everything from drug-resistant tuberculosis to HIV to scabies, rabies and dengue hemorrhagic fever — people who are barely being checked out and definitely not properly quarantined from otherwise healthy people. Border Patrol whistleblowers are coming forward, despite an Obama Administration gag order, to say that they are not being allowed to do their jobs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;">In fact, a massive influx of immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border was the main pretext under which the </span><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/rex-84-fema-s-blueprint-for-martial-law-in-america/3010" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Rex 84 program</span></a><span style="color: #222222;"> and its FEMA camps were designed in the first place Regardless of the fact that the Obama Administration is trying to frame this as a “humanitarian crisis,” rest assured it’s a created crisis, and the only way to solve it will be with even more big government. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">By framing the flood of children immigrants as a “humanitarian crisis,” President Obama has greater leverage to offer more legal and physical help to illegal immigrant minors. This in turn creates an even more enticing reason for parents in Central and South America to send their children over the border, often unaccompanied. Parents know that their children will be attended to once they’re over the border. The result is that the entire system is completely overwhelmed and unworkable.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Perhaps that is why Marine Corps Gen John Kelly, commander of SOUTHCOM, is calling the recent surge in illegal immigration at America’s southern border “a threat to the United States very existence”.</span></div>
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Bobby Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189102534824566345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303507929825752441.post-83137404642032813562014-09-10T06:54:00.001-07:002014-09-10T06:54:34.244-07:00Who's Side Is He On?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With every Islamic Terrorist attack Obama says that the perpetrators do not represent the true world of real Islam. Obama calls them extremists, radicals, militants who have hi-jacked Islam and twisted it from it's true meaning. Obama even insists this while claiming that America is no longer a Christian nation and with his every word and deed attacks Christianity, Christians, Israel and Jews, then on the other hand he lauds the many contributions of Islam to America's founding heritage and culture.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I do remember all the churches, Christian schools and seminaries from the Pilgrims onward, but I don't recall one instance of where Islam, Muslims or a Mosque ever had a positive influence on America. To be true, Islam's (wretched and depraved) influence on America is relatively new, not beginning until after WWII around 1948... Hmmm, and that "influence has not been good nor productive.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Al Qaeda flies jets into the World Trade Center and Pentagon? Obama says they were "radicals" who are not representative of "true Islam".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Al Qaeda and The Muslim Brotherhood overrun Libya, Egypt and Syria murdering thousands and thousands of Christians, Jews, and other non-Muslims? Obama calls them freedom fighters. He arms them to the teeth, funds them, and supplies them with weaponry including hundreds of tanks and fighter jets.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">ISIS, "The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria", sweep through Iraq and Syria murdering and raping countless thousands of Christians, Jews and other not radical enough Muslims? Obama says that ISIS "does not speak for Islam".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, Barack, you lying ass Muslim buffoon, who does speak for real and true Islam?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Terrorism and the New American Republic In 1786, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson met with Arab diplomats from Tunis, who were conducting terror raids and piracy against American ships. History records them as the Barbary Pirates. In fact, they were blackmailing terrorists hiding behind a self-serving interpretation of their Islamic faith by embracing select tracts and ignoring others. Borrowing from the Christian Crusades of centuries past, they used history as a mandate for doing the western world one better. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Thomas Jefferson wanted a military solution, but decades of blackmailing the American Republic and enslaving its citizens would continue until the new American nation realized that the only answer to terrorism was force. There's a temptation to view all of our problems as unprecedented and all of our threats as new and novel, says George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley. Shortly after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, Turley advised some members of Congress who were considering a formal declaration of war against the suspected perpetrators. He invoked the precedent of the Barbary pirates, saying America had every right to attack and destroy the terrorist leadership without declaring war.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">One of the enduring lessons of the Barbary campaigns was to never give in to outlaws whether you call them pirates or terrorists. In the late 1700's, America paid significant blackmail for peace -- shelling out $990,000 to the Algerians alone at a time when national revenues totaled just $7 million"Too many concessions have been made to Algiers," U.S. consul William Eaton wrote to the Secretary of State in 1799. "There is but one language which can be held to these people and this is terror.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So we've looked at Islam's bloody, vile and violent history...can we depend on our President to protect us? Here is what Obama himself said, his every word and deed since then bears out that he really means this-"I will stand with Islam should the political winds shift in an ugly direction," (page 261 of his book Audacity Of Hope).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">but if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah worship is for Allah alone. But if they cease, let there be no transgression except against Az-Zalimun (the polytheists, and wrong-doers, etc.)" the Noble Quran) The historical context of this passage is not defensive warfare since Muhammad and his Muslims had just relocated to Medina and were not under attack by their Meccan adversaries. In fact, the verses urge offensive warfare, in that Muslims are to drive Meccans out of their own city which they later did). The use of the word "persecution" by some Muslim translators is thus disingenuous (the actual Muslim words for persecution -"idtihad" - and oppression - a variation of "z-l-m" - do not appear in the verse). The actual Arabic comes from "fitna" which can mean disbelief, or the disorder that results from unbelief or temptation. Taken as a whole, the context makes clear that violence is being authorized until "religion is for Allah" - ie unbelievers desist in their unbelief.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Quran (2:216) - Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not." that violence can be virtuous, but it also contradicts the myth that fighting is intended only in self-defense, since the audience was obviously not under attack at the time. From the Hadith, we know that this verse was narrated at a time that Muhammad was actually trying to motivate his people into raiding merchant caravans for loot.</span></div>
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Bobby Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189102534824566345noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303507929825752441.post-68237448604297401792014-08-13T06:37:00.000-07:002014-08-13T06:37:39.077-07:00The Color Of The Vote<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">We should all be appalled at the Democrat party for using black and Hispanic Democrat to waging a war on whites as part of their campaign tactics to split the nation. What the Democrats are doing with their dividing America by race is they are waging a war on whites and I find that repugnant.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">We should not be dividing anybody based on national heritage or race. Rather, we should be bringing us all together. That's what the melting pot ideal America is all about. A person's skin pigmentation is something acquired at birth that has absolutely nothing to do with the merits of the person of how one should vote."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Yet other congressional conservatives concur with this theme saying that Democrats openly soliciting votes of people based on color, they are attacking whites based on skin color. And that's wrong. Nobody should be attacked based on skin color. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">The Democrats do it on a regular basis and you can see it in the campaign appeal that they make based on skin color. I don't know of a single Republican who has made an appeal for votes based on skin color. But there has been columns written on how can Republicans gather more votes from blacks, I've written some of them myself. And no one should have forgotten how Obama stated while speaking to a large group of illegal immigrants how they would be rewarded for they're support of the Democratic party and how they should help punish the Republicans for wanting to secure the border.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">The Democrats routinely make appeals based on race and they get away with it. It's repugnant to ever make an appeal based on race. I'm one of those who does not believe in racism, and I believe everyone should be treated equally as American citizens. It's high time folks started calling out the Democrats for their racial appeals. Certainly if you were flip the coin and a white person were to say vote for me because I'm white, it would be an uproar and deservedly so. So why do we allow blacks to say vote f me because I'm black or Hispanics vote for me because I'm Hispanic? Race is immaterial and everybody ought to be treated the same."</span><br />
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Bobby Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189102534824566345noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303507929825752441.post-53923363223271009292014-07-25T07:17:00.000-07:002014-07-25T07:17:21.281-07:00The Financial Point Of No Return<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I warned people to avoid Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, General Motors and dozens of other companies that have since collapsed. Wall Street's latest crisis I believe will be an even bigger crisis than has ever been seen in the history of the world–something that will shake the very foundation of America. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I believe it will accelerate at an extremely rapid pace, beginning in 2014, because of a devastating new law about to go in effect very shortly. I know that to most people, the situation seems to be getting better in America. Stocks have recovered all their losses. Real estate has rebounded. Unemployment and bankruptcies have dropped. But here's the thing: The unfortunate reality is that we are actually in a much more dangerous and precarious place today than we were five years ago. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And that is why I've spent a significant amount of time the past few months preparing this article. In short, I want to talk about a specific event that <b>WILL</b> take place in America's very near future... which could actually bring our country and our way of life to a grinding halt. This looming crisis is related to the financial crisis of 2008... but it is infinitely more dangerous. As this problem comes to a head, I expect there will be a near-complete shut-down of the American economy. Life as we have known it for more than 40 years will essentially cease to exist. Our governments on both the Federal and State level will shut down. Banks will not open. Businesses will at least temporarily shutter their doors. I expect we'll see martial law, enforced by the U.S. military. Believe me, I don't make this prediction lightly and I have no interest in trying to scare you.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I'm simply following my research to its logical conclusion. I did the same when I tracked Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's accounting. Also with General Motors, Lehman Brothers and the rest. And when I began giving this warning in 2006 no one took me very seriously... not at first. Back then, nearly everyone just ignored me. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That's why I'm warning you now.. What I am going to say is controversial. It will offend many people... Democrats, Republicans, and Tea Partiers, alike, and I don't give a shit, cause the truth must be known. My guess is that, as you read this blog... you'll say: "There's no way this could really happen... not here." But just remember: No one believed me years ago when I told you world's largest mortgage bankers - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - would soon go bankrupt and no one believed me when I said GM would soon be bankrupt as well... or that the same would happen to General Growth Properties (the biggest owner of mall property -in America).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">No one believed me in 2011 when I said the crisis would cause"riots in the streets." Then came the protests in Wisconsin, and the Occupy Wall Street movement all over the country. And that brings us to today... The same financial problems I've been tracking from bank to bank and from company to company for the last four years have now found their way into the U.S. Treasury.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What it means is critically important to you and every American... The next phase in this crisis will threaten our very way of life. <a href="http://oicw65-racerelations.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-great-bank-run.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">The savings of millions will be wiped out</span></a>. This disaster will change your business and your work. It will dramatically affect your savings accounts, investments, and retirement. It will change everything about your normal way of life: where you vacation... where you send your kids or grandkids to school... how and where you shop... the way you protect your family and home. You can decide for yourself if I'm full of shit, but as for me, I'm more certain of this looming crisis than I've ever been about anything else in my life. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I am literally afraid for my family's future, and I have taken drastic steps to prepare for what I know must inevitably happen next. I know that debts don't just disappear. I know that bailouts have big consequences. And, unlike most of the pundits on TV, I know much about finance and accounting. And this is all coming to a head much, much sooner than most Americans think.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You won't know what to do when banks close... and your credit cards stop working. Or when you're not allowed to buy gold or foreign currencies. Or when food stamps fail... or their Social Security checks come to a halt. In short, our way of life in America is about to change – I promise you. In this letter I'll show you exactly what is happening, and why it is inevitable. Again, you can challenge every single one of my facts and you'll find that I'm right about each allegation I make. Then, I hope you'll take action for yourself. Will you act now to protect yourself and your family from the catastrophe that's brewing right now in Washington D.C.? I hope so. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I believe that we as Americans are about to see a major, major collapse in our national monetary system, and our normal way of life. Basically, for many years now, our government has been borrowing so much money (very often using short-term loans), that very soon, we will no longer be able to afford even the interest on these loans. You may not think things are THAT BAD in the U.S. economy, or that our government spending is not "that bad," and I don't want to overwhelm you with numbers, but consider just one simple fact.. Every single hour, of every single day, the U.S. government spends about $200 million that it doesn't have. Yes, that's every hour of every single day... 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including Sundays, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter and every other holiday. Our government borrows more money than the combined annual profits of the 100 biggest publicly traded companies in America. That's absolutely incredible, isn't it?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Again, every hour of every single day, we are spending $200 million we don't have. Does that sound sustainable to you? Yet, you'll rarely see this fact reported anywhere else. But lately I've spent most of my time looking into our national balance sheet, because as the banking system collapsed in 2008... all of the bad debts were absorbed by the world's governments. And it continues to this day. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We began the year 2013 with a net public </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">debt that has more than doubled since the year before Barack Obama took office. These overwhelming public financial obligations are completely unprecedented in the history of our country, outside of the two major global wars we fought in the 20th century. But even these incredible figures don't tell the real story. Or even half of it. Various other government agencies and private companies taken over by the government also have obligations of nearly another $5 trillion. We've already booked complete losses on $140 billion worth of these obligations. Yet they remain completely off the federal balance sheet. When you add these other, genuine, federal obligations that exist right now, today, you come up with a total debt figure that's much more than $20 trillion. Far more than half of these debts were assumed under President Obama. I don't know what the full burden of these new and existing debts will be in total, over time. That's because the Federal Reserves power to manipulate interest rates is unlimited—at least for now that's the case.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I don't know how much of Fannie's and Freddie's bad debts will eventually be covered by the U.S. Treasury. (But I do know they have an unlimited line of credit... so it's a safe bet that we haven't seen the last of these charges.) Finally, I have no idea what the eventual costs of the Federal Reserve's ongoing expansion of the monetary base will be over the long term. There is one thing that's certain, however: these debts will not be free. They will carry a burden. Today, we have more government debt than any country in the history of the world. We have more debt than every country in the European Union... combined. With each additional commitment we sink further and further into debt... closing in upon the moment that we can simply no longer afford even the interest payments on our obligations. And here is the part that really matters... the costs of maintaining our debts are about to skyrocket. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Right now the Federal Reserve is manipulating interest rates down to almost zero. As a result, the interest rate at which our government can borrow money is at a record low level. In fact, the Federal Reserve has lowered its benchmark interest rate ten times since August 2007, from 5.25% to a zone between zero and 0.25%. Obviously, the current rate won't last forever. But what will happen if the average real interest rate ends up being just 4% annually, and we pay it off over 30 years like a mortgage? Incredibly, we'll spend $34.3 trillion to simply repay what we owe right now. If the rate ends up being 6%, we'll spend $43.1 trillion.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now, of course, our politicians believe that through policy and currency manipulation, they can simply avoid paying any of these costs. They can order the Federal Reserve to prevent interest rates from ever rising to a level that would cost the American people anything. They believe they can manage the economy, so the debts of Fannie and Freddie won't go bad. They believe (without any proof whatsoever) that they can stimulate the economy by even more deficit spending, so that it grows faster, allowing tax revenues to produce a surplus. Repaying these debts, they say, will be easy and painless. But you know better, my friend. You must know better. The wages of sin must be paid. And they will be paid. Just consider the plans of those who argue otherwise... Paul Krugman, one of the most widely read and respected"economists" in the country wrote about this incredibly naïve and ridiculous solution in a January 7th, 2013 New York Times column. He said: There's a legal loophole allowing the Treasury to mint platinum coins in any denomination the secretary chooses. Yes it was intended to allow commemorative collector's items – bu that's not what the letter of the law says. And by minting a trillion coin, then depositing it at the Fed, the Treasury could acquire enough cash to sidestep the debt ceiling – while doing no economic harm at all." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Very few people, even our most influential economists, seem to remember that the utility of money and credit are based upon their soundness. Money allows people to exchange goods and services widely, economic magic of competitive advantage. Money also plays the critical function of facilitating communications between and among many disparate actors. Price changes guide producers and consumers.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But... when the money can't be trusted... the entire system breaks down. The price signals can't be relied upon. And it becomes harder and harder for people to exchange labor and capital. Likewise, credit enables an economy to grow by facilitating the growth of savings and capital investment through real interest rates. But very few people are willing to delay consumption and trust their savings in an economy that refuses to pay savers any return above inflation for their savings. And that's exactly where we are today Although to most Americans everything seems calm... and that we are enjoying an economic recovery, I can promise you this: We are trapped. There is no way out. And nobody in Washington – not Republicans, not Democrats, and not even Tea Partiers – want you to realize how precarious our government's finances really are. They can't afford for you to understand this dilemma... or what it means. Because this is the big secret the government hopes you never understand.. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">According to even my most conservative calculations (numbers provided by the Congressional Budget Office) a debt default by the U.S. government is inevitable – were it not for one simple anomaly...the one thing that has saved the United States so far I'm talking about our country's ability to simply print more money. The U.S. government has one very important weapon to use in this crisis so far: We are the only debtor in the world who can legally print U.S. dollars. And the U.S. dollar is what's known as "the world's reserve currency."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The dollar forms the basis of the world's financial system. It is what banks around the world hold in reserve against their loans. And, that's the secret most politicians don't understand: As things stand now, the U.S. government can't go broke in any ordinary sense of the word because it can simply print dollars to pay for its bad debts. (It's been doing so since March of 2009.) That might sound pretty good at first. Since we can always just print more money, what is there to worry about...? Well, here's why our biggest advantage is about to disappear. As things stand today, America is the only country in the world that doesn't have to pay for its imports in a foreign currency. What I mean... Let's say you're a German and you want to buy oil from Saudi Arabia. You can't just pay for your oil in German marks (or the new euro currency), because the oil is priced in dollars. So you have to buy dollars first, then buy your oil. And that means the value of the German currency is of great importance to the German government. To maintain the value of its currency, Germans must produce at least as much as they consume from around the world...otherwise the value of its currency will begin to fall, causing prices to rise and its standard of living to decline. But in America...?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We've been able to consume as much as we want without worrying about acquiring the money to pay for it, because our dollars are accepted everywhere around the world. In short, for decades now, we haven't had to produce anything or export anything to get all the dollars we needed to buy all the oil (or any other goods) our country required. All we had to do was borrow and print more money. And boy did we. America was the world's largest creditor. But by the mid-1980's we'd become a debtor to the world. And since the late 1990's we've been the world's LARGEST debtor. Today, our government owes more money to more people than anyone else in the world. With all of these bad debts piling up, we've had to begin repaying our debts by printing trillions of new dollars.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With QE3, the latest round of "quantitative easing," the Fed is now promising to print $85 billion a month. That's over a trillion dollars a year. And now, finally, the impact of this is being felt in a big way. As our creditors figure out what's happening, we are beginning to have very, very big problems. I believe our creditors (which include foreign countries and other investors here and abroad) will either completely stop accepting dollars in repayment... or greatly discount the value of these new dollars. I'm sure you think that sounds crazy, but it's already happening. In fact, Zha Xiaogang, a researcher at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, recently said: The shortcomings of the current international monetary system pose a big threat to China's economy." That's why China is now actively taking steps to phase out the U.S. dollar because of its frustration with the U.S. government's mismanagement of our currency. And how does our government respond? We have the audacity to label China a "currency manipulator!" Can you see the bullshit here? As a result of what our government is doing today, you can bet your ass we will soon see an end of the U.S. dollar standard. In fact, I'm 100% sure of it. It's not a matter of "if," but "when." And I know it'll happen much, much sooner than most people think. In fact, I believe that a series of new laws, set to go into effect on July 1st, 2014, are going to accelerate this trend... in very dramatic fashion.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Even more importantly, these new regulations set to take place on July 1st will make it nearly impossible for most Americans to legally protect their savings... so it's imperative that you get the facts, learn what you can do, and take action before that date. Some mainstream publications like the New York Post are recognizing the inevitability of this event. The Post recently reported that, "The US dollar is getting perilously close to losing its status as the world's reserve currency. Should it cross the line, the 2008 financial crisis could look like a summer storm. It will fade probably fairly quickly, so the United States, which accounts for almost two-thirds of the reserves will probably go down to 50% of the world's reserves."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Keep in mind, the U.S. dollar has been the world's reserve currency for decades now... so most Americans don't have a clue about what the repercussions are of losing this status. And maybe you think it could never happen... but the truth is, this is exactly what happens when countries get too far in debt or when they consume too much or produce too little. In fact, the same thing happened to Great Britain in the 1970's. First Britain… Now America Most people don't know this, but Britain's sterling was the reserve currency for most of the world for nearly 200 years... for most of the 18th and 19th centuries.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It continued to play this role until after World War II, when America was forced to prop up Britain's economy with foreign aid –remember the famous Marshall Plan, when we gave billions to help European countries rebuild? Unfortunately though, Britain pursued a socialist national agenda. The government took over all of the major industries. Like Barack Obama, Britain's leaders wanted to "spread the wealth around." Pretty soon the country was flat broke, so you can't tell me that wealth redistribution is a great idea. The final straw for Britain came in 1967, when things got so bad the Labor Party (the socialists) decided to "devalue" the British currency by 14%, overnight. They believed this would make it easier for people to afford their debts. In reality, what it did was make anyone holding British sterling 14% poorer, overnight, and it made everything in Britain, much, much more expensive in the coming years. And for the country as a whole, it ushered in one of the worst decades in modern British history. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Most Americans don't know about Britain's "</span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/thatcher-and-the-winter-of-discontent-2013-4" style="background-color: #fff2cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Winter of Discontent</span></a><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">" in the late 1970's, when the government put a freeze on wages. There were continuous strikes in nearly every sector... grave diggers, trash collectors... even hospital workers. Things got so bad at one point that many hospitals were reduced to accepting emergency patients. And mothers giving birth had to bring their own linens. In 1975, inflation in Britain skyrocketed 26.9%... in a single year The government also imposed what was known as the "Three Day Week" in 1974, sound familiar? We're considering a four day work week and the US postal service has already cut they's down to five days a week. In short, businesses were limited to using electricity for only three specified consecutive days' each week and they were prohibited from working longer hours on those days. Television companies were required to cease broadcasting at 10:30 pm... to save electricity. Just how bad were things, exactly?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Imagine... Britain was a global superpower for 150 years. But when they started intentionally devaluing their currency, things went straight downhill. Britain's sterling when it was the world's reserve currency, is now happening to the U.S. dollar. In fact, the exchange value of the U.S. dollar has fallen nearly 10% since June 2010. And its rate of decline is accelerating. As the U.S. dollar continues to lose its position as the world's currency, gas, oil, and other commodities will continue to skyrocket. Almost EVERYTHING we consume will get dramatically more expensive. All the clothing, furniture, and household goods we import from China. All the food we get from Central and South America... all the electronics, televisions, computers, and cars we get from Asia and Europe. And when you look back over the past few years, the numbers are startling.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is NOT a coincidence Around the world, as we print, prices soar... citizens protest... governments get overthrown. And it's only going to get worse.. Because there's no possible way for us to actually afford our existing debts. No one wants you to know this. That's why, despite the obvious inflation going on all around the world, the Fed continues to say there's no inflation at all. And that's the scary part, to me. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Just like in a Third World country, the government is radically devaluing the dollar and simply lying to everyone about what is really happening. Whether you realize it or not, there is already a "run" on the dollar. Many of our creditors, like the Chinese, are getting out of the dollar as fast as they can via strategic commodities, like copper, gold, and oil. That's partly why commodity prices are soaring. Unfortunately, skyrocketing commodity prices are just the beginning. There are other disastrous consequences to the U.S. dollar losing status as the world's currency... For example, as demand for U.S. dollars around the globe decreases, interest rates will skyrocket. Instead of getting a mortgage at today's incredibly low rates of around 3%, it might cost you 8%... or even 10%... or 15%. Imagine what that would do to housing prices.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I'll explain why the collapse of the dollar as the world's reserve currency could happen much sooner than most people expect. The REAL State of the U.S. Economy is in serious trouble and we are in complete denial about a major currency crisis here in the United States. But this is natural... In the world of psychology, they call this the "normalcy bias." You see, the normalcy bias actually refers to our natural reactions when facing a crisis. The normalcy bias causes smart people to underestimate the possibility of a disaster and its effects. In short, people believe that since something has never happened before... it never will. We are all guilty of it... it's just human nature. The normalcy bias also makes people unable to deal with a disaster, once it has occurred. Basically... people have a really hard time preparing for and dealing with something they have never experienced before. What's scary is the normalcy bias often results in unnecessary deaths in disaster situations.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We saw the same thing happen during Hurricane Katrina... Even as it became clear that the levee system was not going to work, tens of thousands of people stayed in their homes, directly in the line of the oncoming waves of water. People had never seen things get this bad before... so they simply didn't believe it could happen. As a result, nearly 2,000 residents died. Again... it's the "normalcy bias." We simply refuse to see the evidence that's right in front of our face, because it is unlike anything we have experienced before. The normalcy bias kicks in and we continue to go about our lives as if nothing is unusual or out of the ordinary. Well, we're seeing the same thing happen in the United States right now during this currency crisis. We have been the world's most powerful country for nearly 100 years. The U.S. dollar has reigned supreme as the world's reserve currency for more than 50 years. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Most of us in America simply cannot fathom these things changing. But I promise you this, things are changing... and faster than most people realize. For a moment, just look at a tiny fraction of the evidence around us..** 18% OF POPULATION ON FOODSTAMPS. Did you know that there are now more than 52 million Americans on food stamps? That's nearly 18% of the entire population. Those numbers are up 65% since 2008 and that translates to roughly 1 in 8 Americans. Can a country really be in good shape when 18% of the population can't even afford to buy food? Or how about this...** 43% OF AMERICAN FAMILIES ARE ESSENTIALLY BROKE</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">According to a recent article on MSN Money, about 43% of American families spend more than they earn each year. Americans hold $15.8 TRILLION in household debt. And of those households carrying debt, the average credit card balance is a whopping $15,422 It's no wonder... The U.S. Census Bureau says the median household income in America is actually 8.9% LOWER today than it was in 1999. So how in the world can we possibly "spend" our way out of the current crisis? We certainly can't do it with savings... or increased earnings... the only answer is to print more money, which will hasten the fall of the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency. And that brings me to... </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">THE MYSTERY OF DISAPPEARING JOBS. There's simply no one better at bending statistics than the U.S. government. Take the unemployment rate, for example. Back in the 1930's, anyone without a job but not retired was considered"unemployed." Today, however, the government calculates unemployment mainly by counting the number of people receiving unemployment benefits. So when unemployment benefits expire, people are no longer counted... and the unemployment rate actually falls! Ridiculous... I know And how about this... </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Every month, 14 million Americans get a "disability" check from the government. In some states, like West Virginia, nearly 10% of the entire working age population is on disability. In some rural counties, like Hale County, Alabama, 25% of the working age population gets a disability check. Of course, because these folks aren't officially in the job market, they don't count in the government's"official" unemployment numbers In other words, reality is, the true unemployment rate is much, much higher than what the government is reporting. In fact, an article in Forbes in mid-2013 suggested that the true unemployment rate in America is about 17.3%, meaning 1 in 6 of all potential full-time employees are not able to earn a living wage to support themselves. If you don't believe me, look at two job postings I read about recently.. In November of 2012, 3,000 people in Chicago stood in line for as long as four hours to apply for one of the 55 city jobs on offer. And American Airlines recently announced it was hiring 1,500 new flight attendants – jobs that pay an average $23,000 per year. Twenty thousand applicants responded -- so many that American stopped taking resumes after eight days. The point is, our country is not growing jobs, because the government is making it harder and harder for businesses to thrive. And with current regulations in place, our country will never experience the type of growth necessary to dig our government out of the hole they've put themselves in.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I'm sure you think I'm exaggerating, but just look at what the CEO of one of America's most important companies said recently: Intel CEO Paul Otellini said in a speech:"I can tell you definitively that it costs $1 billion more per factory for me to build, equip, and operate a semiconductor manufacturing facility in the United States." He said that 90% of the additional costs are not from higher labor rates... but from higher taxes and regulatory charges, which other nations simply don't impose. Cypress Semiconductor CEO T.J. Rodgers agreed that the problem is not higher U.S. wages, but anti-business laws. He was quoted in an interview with CNET News saying:"The killer factor in California for a manufacturer to create, say, a thousand blue-collar jobs is a hostile government that doesn't want you there and demonstrates it in thousands of ways." Few Americans today realize that the United States has overtaken Japan and now has THE highest corporate tax rate in the developed world. Why would anyone want to start a business here, when they can do it for less money... and keep more of the money they make... by locating elsewhere? It's just another good reason to avoid the U.S. dollar.. So is this... DEBT-RIDDEN U.S. COMPANIES Did you know that in 1979, there were 61 American companies that earned a top-level AAA credit rating from Moody's? Today, there are only four: Automatic Data Processing, ExxonMobil, Johnson& Johnson, and Microsoft. Does this sound like an economic recovery to you... when only four companies in the entire country are stable enough to earn a triple-A credit rating? Me neither. And think about this... can you really have any AAA- rated companies in a country where the government is not AAA-rated? I don't have the answer for that, and so far, these companies have not been downgraded along with the U.S. government. But remember, most of their assets are in U.S. dollars, so it could soon mean big problems for these companies as well, even though they've been as conservative and responsible as possible with their finances. That's the thing you need to remember.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It doesn't matter if you personally have a good credit rating, or very little going to have disastrous effects for EVERY American and for nearly every asset in America. You simply must take some simple steps to protect yourself as much as possible. This currency crisis is going to get much, much worse. It's going to make the mortgage crisis of 2008 look like a walk in the park. Almost every state in the country is on the verge of bankruptcy. The federal government has borrowed an impossible amount of money, which we'll never be able to pay back. Our economy is an absolute mess. Taxes are sky high already... and now Obama in his 2nd term has raised taxes even higher. I'm sure we'll see tax hike proposals in the years to come too. Plus nearly all of the world's major financial players are preparing for an alternative to the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency. To me, it is so obvious that we are about to experience a serious currency crisis, I can't believe people can deny this reality with a straight face. And I think that's part of the problem... Today it's not uncommon to find editorials in some of the most respected publications, like the New York Times, stating that it's impossible for the U.S. to have a debt crisis. But I promise you, the people making such idiotic claims today are going to be humiliated when this all unfolds. They'll be just like the guys pumping internet stocks in 1999... or the guys saying "real estate could never go down" in 2005. In hindsight, it will all appear to be so obvious— Yet today for most people the idea of the U.S. dollar collapsing is still an unfathomable event. And if you still have your own doubts that this could really occur, just take another look at the price of gold and silver compared to the U.S. dollar over the past decade.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And think about this... The only reason people buy precious metals like gold and silver is because they realize there are major problems with saving money in ordinary currencies. And since 2000, gold is up more than 300%... while silver is up around 250%. Yes, gold and silver have fallen back significantly in 2013. But this is natural, normal correction after such astonishing moves over the past dozen years. And I promise you this, both gold and silver are going much, much higher than their highs of recent years, and much, much higher than their current prices today. And think about this: People have lost so much faith in the U.S. dollar, they are pouring money into radical alternatives like Bitcoin. I wouldn't touch Bitcoin with a 10-foot pole, but because people have lost so much faith in the U.S. dollar, it soared more than 8,000% in 2013. Absolutely insane The point is: Anyone with any sense or basic understanding of economics can tell the U.S. dollar is doomed. And as it continues to collapse, it's going to have major repercussions. Here's what's happening... In 2010, the U.S. Congress passed House of Representatives bill <a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/hr2847.asp" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">H.R. 2847</span></a>. Hidden within this bill is a provision known as "FATCA," which stands for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. This bill does several important things, as of July 1st, 2014: 1. It forces all worldwide banks to comply with the IRS if they have any transactions in U.S. dollars 2. Because the U.S. dollar is still the world's reserve currency, it essentially means ALL WORLDWIDE BANKS, except for the smallest community institutions, must comply. 3. To comply, banks can either spend a fortune segmenting, tracking, and potentially "taxing" their U.S. dollar transactions by as much as 30%... or they can simply get rid of all of their U.S. customers. In other words, the U.S. government is saying to all banks around the world: If you deal in U.S. dollars in any way, you have to give us full, unfettered access to all of these transactions... or you have to get rid of all of your U.S. customers. The repercussions here are enormous: For one, it means more and more institutions will move AWAY from the U.S. dollar, accelerating the already rapid worldwide move away from the dollar as reserve currency.</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For another, it essentially makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the average American to get some of his money out of U.S. dollars, and into more stable currencies via foreign banks. Already, I've seen two of the largest banks in the world, JP Morgan Chase and HSBC, basically eliminate international wire transfers. Many small banks have reportedly followed suit. And I expect many, many more banks to basically outlaw international wire transfers, the run up to the July 1st law. This is a clear example of Capital Controls. This is what a broke and desperate government does when they know the value of their currency is about to collapse. I've seen governments around the globe pull these stunts over and over again... right before a currency devaluation or collapse. And now it's happenings right here, in the United States of America So, what can you do? There are still a surprising number of simple things you can do to not only protect what you've currently got, but to also potentially make quite a bit of money as this currency crisis unfolds. And that is GET OUT OF THE DOLLAR AND BUY GOLD AND SILVER NOW.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">President Barack Obama has ran the most criminal and corrupt administrations in modern history and is guilty of numerous high crimes and misdemeanors that warrant his removal from office, that's why I have proposed seven specific articles of impeachment for which the evidence is very clear.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">The case for impeachment is solid, although I don't believe there is enough political will in the country to move forward at this time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I offer seven indictments, beginning with “The President’s Willful Refusal to Execute the Laws Faithfully and Usurpation of the Legislative Authority of Congress.” Within this article, I'll cite Obama’s illegal and unilateral changing of federal statutes, from several components within Obamacare to scrapping codified welfare work requirements to amending immigration laws and enacting policies Congress did not approve.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I also allege that Obama failed to execute laws ranging from layoff notifications to the Clean Air Act to nuclear waste and Medicare.There’s a simple reason why I put these allegations first, what you always want to have in the indictment is one count that’s pretty much indefensible.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">I think even the president’s most ardent admirers would have to admit that he does not execute the laws faithfully, which is one of the most important duties that he has in the Constitution. The president is the only officer in our government who is required by the Constitution to take an oath to faithfully execute the laws and preserve the Constitution.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We have a president who is very arbitrary about laws. He enforces some. He doesn’t enforce others. He’s selective. He rewrites them. He presumes to be able to decree federal benefits. A lot of people may like that on the hard left because it’s basically implementing their ideological program. But I think most people, if they’re of good faith, have to admit that he’s not following the law.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Obama’s failure to faithfully enforce immigration laws also appears in the fifth article, specifically referring to the president’s unilateral conferring of amnesty upon certain groups of immigrants and fighting states that seek to enforce federal immigration laws on their own. Immigration is also mentioned in another article on defrauding the American people, in which the administration deliberately misleads the public on its border enforcement record. There is a very good reason for the heavy focus on immigration, because I think it’s so blatant. The president has taken the position that he can write the immigration law himself. He’s tried to go the constitutional route. He’s tried to go to Congress. He hasn’t gotten what he’s wanted. What he says in those instances is that, ‘If Congress won’t act, I will.’ Constitutionally, it’s not that Congress won’t act. They’ve said no. His response to that is to become imperious and try to impose his own program and do it in a way that not only disregarding of the Constitution’s separation of powers but also is an insult to the sovereignty of the states.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Other articles of impeachment on my list, include “Usurping the Constitutional Authority and Prerogatives of Congress” for not getting congressional authorization for extended military action in Libya and making recess appointments at a time when the Senate was not in recess, and dereliction of duty as commander in chief. The latter charge focuses on crippling rules of engagement that makes U.S. troops much more vulnerable and more unlikely to complete their missions. I also sees impeachable offenses on this front in the recent prisoner swap that allowed five key Taliban figures to go free from Guantanamo in exchange for captive U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl. I’m not impressed by the one that seems to have everybody whipped up in Washington, this 30-day notification requirement. I think that’s of dubious constitutionality. I actually think Obama has a pretty good argument on that statute because it really does try to restrict his core constitutional authority as commander in chief.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It seems to be quite beside the point when we have a commander in chief who is replenishing the enemy in wartime when the enemy is still on the battlefield conducting offensive, jihadist operations against our guys. That’s about as shocking a dereliction of duty as anyone can imagine. Another article of impeachment against Obama is for fraud perpetrated against the American people. The allegations under that charge focus on the core promises of Obamacare that Americans could keep their health plans and doctors. I also cite Obama for going into Libya under the premise of averting genocide and always intending to depose Muammar Gadhafi, blaming the 2012 Benghazi attacks on a video long after the truth was known, facilitating Iran’s nuclear program while publicly vowing to stop it and propping up the green energy firm Solyndra with taxpayer dollars in a way that deceived investors. Another article calls for impeachment based on the Justice Department’s alleged failure to execute the laws faithfully. That indictment centers on the illegal monitoring of reporters, the Fast and Furious gun-running operation politicizing the hiring process at the Justice Department and unequally applying civil rights laws.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">On matters such as Benghazi, the Justice Department’s actions and even the IRS scrutiny of conservatives, it is still unclear what Obama knew and if he had an active role in those issues, it doesn’t matter.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In the system the framers gave us, it was very important to them that the president be accountable. If you look at the Constitution carefully, you’d find that all the executive power in the government is invested in one person. It is not endowed in this vast array of executive agencies. It is singularly the president who is responsible. It’s not what Hillary Clinton does or Susan Rice does or Eric Holder or Eric Shinseki or any of the people who have become infamous over the past five- and-a-half years. All those facts are attributable to the president, the founding fathers would have little patience with the Obama administration’s frequent explanation that the president did not know or approve of any wrongdoing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My final article accuses Obama of undermining the constitutional rights of the American people, from the IRS harassment of conservatives applying for nonprofit status to his refusal to classify the Fort Hood massacre as an act of terrorism to infringing on religious freedom through the contraception and abortifacient mandate and eroding gun rights through the United Nations. However, I've reserved some special frustration for Obama’s efforts to stifle criticism of Islam in the public square and disassembling the first amendment.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">From the first days of Obama’s presidency in 2009 with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, that’s this cabal of 57 Islamic government including the Palestinian Authority, they’ve been working on a resolution to curtail American free speech rights in deference to Shariah blasphemy standards. They have essentially struck a human-rights resolution that makes it unlawful to engage in expression that could incite hostility to their cult like religion. Of course, there’s only one religion we’re talking about in this context. Proving that there is an Obama administration mandate that attacks religious liberty, it’s not difficult to prove these things have happened, and it’s hard to prove these are high crimes and misdemeanors.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Are they serious enough? Does the public think this is egregious enough to remove the president from power? If not, then our way of life and freedom are forever gone, but if so, then we must act to save this, the greatest republic to have ever come into existence and impeach this cancer we call president.</span><br />
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Bobby Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189102534824566345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303507929825752441.post-49583564205281779122014-04-30T07:02:00.000-07:002014-04-30T07:02:05.433-07:00# Two Million Less...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What’s the single most important issue facing the country today? According to a recent Gallup poll, a majority of Americans says it’s jobs.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We need more of them,</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> Millions more. But thanks to the policies of Barack Obama, we’re not getting them. In fact, just the opposite is true. Recent reports from the Congressional Budget Office reveal how two of the President’s pet programs will cost this country millions of jobs. They make very grim reading for anyone concerned about the employment picture in America.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The first report dealt with the impact of Obamacare. The CBO estimates that as the Affordable Care Act becomes fully implemented, some 2 million Americans will either leave the workforce or substantially reduce the number of hours they work. The reason is simple: They won’t want to lose the subsidies for their health insurance. But that’s what will happen as their earnings increase, either because they work more hours or get a higher-paying jobs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Obamacare insurance subsidies are gradually reduced as a person’s income rises. In other words, as the CBO report puts it, Obamacare is really “an implicit tax on additional earnings.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The White House immediately put its own enthusiastic spin on the CBO’s projected job loss. Believe it or not, it said this was really good news, because it meant that many people would finally have the freedom to stay home with their children or maybe start their own businesses. Yep, the Obama Administration said we should all be happy about the loss of 2 million jobs because it meant that “Individuals will be empowered to make choices about their own lives and livelihoods and have the opportunity to pursue their dreams.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sure thing. That “dream” no doubt helps explain why nearly 50 million Americans have signed up to collect food stamps. Welcome to the Obama's version of the American dream which is rapidly becoming the American nightmare for those of us who have to pay the taxes to keep the shell game going.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The employment picture is already pretty grim, with the lowest labor-participation rate since the 1970's. The way the Feds like to count, the unemployment rate in the U.S. is now less than 7 percent, a finding that led to all sorts of back-patting and self-congratulations from the White House. But of course, “the way the Feds like to count” is as crooked as a corkscrew. As soon as someone stops looking for work, he is no longer counted among the unemployed. So while the Bureau of Labor Statistics sees only 10 million unemployed Americans, the reality is that there are another 92 million Americans — more than nine times that number — who don’t have jobs. Some of them don’t need or want to work, of course. They may be retirees or stay-at-home moms. The number also includes full-time students, the disabled and anyone else who doesn’t need a job. But even after making every possible allowance, it’s clear that the real unemployment number in this country is considerably higher than the government’s official figure.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The second bit of bad news for the Democrats concerned their campaign to increase the minimum wage by almost 50 percent. They want it raised from $7.25 an hour, where it is now, to $10.10 I’ll leave aside for now the whole question of whether the Federal government has any business setting wages in this country or whether it has the Constitutional authority to do so. Of course it doesn’t. But the three branches of government haven’t agreed with me on this one since 1938, when the first law was passed by Congress establishing a Federal minimum wage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now comes a report from the CBO estimating that raising the minimum wage to more than $10 could cost anywhere from half-a-million to a million jobs According to the Labor Department, about 3.6 million Americans earned $7.25 an hour or less in 2012, the latest year for which numbers are available. Almost half of them were between the ages of 16 and 24. The vast majority were working in entry-level jobs, mostly in restaurants and other service industries. But here’s the good news: Most people who start in minimum-wage jobs in this country won’t stay there.</span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">After they've</span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> increased their skills and experience, they become worth more to an employer. That just makes sense. There are 146 million people employed in this country, according to the Labor Department Some 118 million hold full-time jobs, while another 28 million are working part-time. And you know what? Most of them got their first jobs working for minimum wage at McDonald’s or some other fast-food joint. Many, if not most, of the people reading this column could probably say the same thing. How many of those first-time jobs will be lost if the minimum wage goes up by almost 50? That’s why the National Restaurant Association warned that increasing the minimum wage will “significantly limit the entry-level opportunities businesses can provide, hurting employees with limited skills or experience and looking to enter the workforce.”</span><br />
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Bobby Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189102534824566345noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303507929825752441.post-74208000846610973202014-04-25T07:32:00.000-07:002014-04-25T16:43:19.358-07:00The Destroyer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“40 years ago” equates to the early 1970's or about 25 years or so after WW-II. I remember that we had mandatory military service (the Draft Law) in the 1950's. This also was about the timeframe that the news media started branding people with names like “Hippies”, “Yuppies”, “Flower Children”, and “Generation-X” just to name a few. Their parents were labeled “baby boomers.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Our nation was in a turmoil of clashing value systems and ideological rebellion. No wonder the US House and Senate was packed with Military veterans back in that day. That also might explain why many present US politicians in office now are allergic to anything military.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They argue that the US Government is <b>NOT</b> a democracy now, and never was. Instead, it is a <b>Representative Republic</b> bound by a confederation of member states. On the other hand, the Democrats consider the US Constitution an obsolete document urgently in need of revision or outright replacement. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Their principles and foundation are reflected in the Obama campaign flag that he wanted to fly in all government buildings in 2010 instead of the official American flag we use today to identify ourselves to the rest of the planet. </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This is a variation of the campaign logo, represented by the blue and white symbol in the upper left corner The three curved blue stripes represent Canada, the (about to be former) United States and Mexico. The rising sun represents the future America with three provinces. The outer circle represents a one-world government.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As Obama said, “There are no States but the United States.” His vision involves the dissolution of a confederation of States. Are those red stripes blood? If so, whose blood? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My source for its symbolism is The Post American World. This book was in the President’s hand as he prepared to board the Presidential Helicopter in 2009.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Veterans pledged a solemn oath when we joined the US Military. That oath had no expiration date or terms for dissolution. Our nation is in peril of destruction from within. This is one of those times in our history when we face a determined enemy from within our nation that threatens the survival of our nation even more than our foreign enemies. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I cannot remember a time when our mission to change the minds and spirit of our nation’s lawmakers and citizens is more important than now.</span><br />
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Bobby Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189102534824566345noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303507929825752441.post-17192479252678335372014-03-07T06:45:00.001-08:002014-09-20T02:50:02.278-07:00The Origins Of Barry Soetoro<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here is evidence that annuls Obama’s presidency. Obama’s college transcripts regarding his application for and receiving of foreign student aid. Obama’s college transcripts from Occidental College indicates that Obama, under the name <a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/studentid.asp" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Barry <strike>Soetoro</strike></span></a>, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate at the school. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Grants are available for U.S. citizens to go abroad and for non-U.S. citizens with no U.S. permanent residence to come to the U.S. To qualify, for the <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2704560/posts" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">non-US citizen</span></a> scholarship to study in the U.S., a student applicant must claim and provide proof of foreign citizenship. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This document seems to provide absolute proof that many of Obama’s detractors have been seeking. The United States Constitution requires that Presidents (and Vice Presidents) of the United States be natural born citizens of the United States.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Article 2, Section 1, Paragraph 5 states “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Obama has been named in dozens of civil lawsuits alleging he is not eligible to be president, with many filing a criminal complaint alleging the commander-in-chief is a fraud.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">U.S. soldiers including a general refuse to recognize Obama as their Commander in Chief since he is not a U.S. citizen. The soldiers have challenged Obama’s legitimacy by filing federal lawsuits against Obama.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">On such soldier was U.S. Army Maj. Stefan Frederick Cook who was given orders to deploy to Afghanistan. Cook refused to deploy stating that he shouldn’t have to go because Obama is not a U.S. citizen and therefore not legally President and Commander in Chief. The military revoked the orders with no reason given. Speculation is that Obama would rather not see this thing go to court before a judge!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“In the 20-page document — filed with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia — the California-based Taitz asks the court to consider granting his client’s request based upon Cook’s belief that Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and is therefore ineligible to serve as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces,” the Ledger-Enquirer reported.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Cook “would be acting in violation of international law by engaging in military actions outside the United States under this President’s command. … simultaneously subjecting himself to possible prosecution as a war criminal by the faithful execution of these duties,” Taitz stated.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Obama says he was born in Hawaii in 1961, just two years after it became a state, now ask yourself, Why would he apply for and receive financial aid for foreign students? He is at least guilty of fraud and at the worst the spire head of an attack on America. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Could this be Barack's real father? Let examine some of this evidence. </span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">While conducting a search of Obama's lineage I came across some very interesting evidence that suggest he's really from Indonesia. </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The idea being promoted is that Mohammad Subud, the founder of <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/obama-birthplace-controversy/2014/01/obama-subud-cult-the-story-mainstream-media-banned-video-and-pics-2473544.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">the Subud cult</span></a>, is Obama’s real father.</span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Obama’s “mother” Stanly Ann Dunham and this Subud spiritual cult are veritably linked through documentation.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Now I've found another birth certificate from Indonesia that has his name as Barry Soetoro, but there's something wrong with the fathers name, Lolo Soetoro is listed as the step father, here, look for yourselves. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There are many lawsuits and claims that Barack Obama was never eligible to be president because he wasn’t born in the United States. And there is credible evidence that suggests he is not legally eligible to serve as President of the United States.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Numerous official government documents records Obama being legally registered as Barry Soetoro. School registries shows the registration of Barack Obama under the name Barry Soetoro. During his Occidental College days he is registered as Barry Soetoro. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">An entry in the journal of the California assembly in reference to grants given to foreign exchange students (this official government document lists Obama as a foreigner not a US citizen. A US citizen wouldn’t qualify for foreign exchange student funding) states Obama as Barry Soetoro from Indonesia.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><u>The first name of a child is always the same from birth. If throughout his childhood Obama went by the first name of Barry then legally his birth name would have to be Barry. <span style="color: blue;">In order to register any child for school an official birth certificate must be presented. To receive a government grant proof of citizenship and birth must also be submitted. All of the evidence is stating that Barack Obama’s legal first name is Barry not Barrack.</span></u></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It wasn’t until he met a girl by the name of Regina that Obama started using the name Barack. Regina was the first to start calling him Barack. There seems to be no record of Obama legally changing his first name from Barry to Barack.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While being sworn in as an attorney in the State of Illinois, Mr Obama had to provide his personal information under oath. He was asked, if he had any other names, he responded none. In reality, he used the name Barry Soetoro in an entry in the journal of the California assembly in reference to grants given to foreign exchange students. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Mr. Soetoro/Obama clearly defrauded the State Bar of Illinois and perjured himself while concealing his identity. Anybody else would’ve been disbarred for this and the matter would’ve been forwarded to the district attorney for prosecution for <a href="http://www.obfelony.webs.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">perjury and fraud</span></a>, however nothing was done to Mr. Obama. More importantly, why <a href="http://mobile.wnd.com/2011/04/292649/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">did he conceal his identity</span></a>? I'd say, Absolutly.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If Obama didn’t legally have his name changed from Barry to Barack then the birth certificate he passed to Congress is a fake, a forgery. If his name was registered as Barry Soetoro even though Obama claims his real name is Barack Obama then Obama defrauded the state of California in order to receive college funding. Obama knowingly presented a false document to the state wherein he claimed to be a foreign student in order to illegally acquire financial aid.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>(d) Whoever knowingly makes any false certificate, acknowledgment or statement concerning the appearance before him or the taking of an oath or affirmation or the signature, attestation or execution by any person with respect to any application, declaration, petition, affidavit, deposition, certificate of naturalization, certificate of citizenship or other paper or writing required or authorized by the laws relating to immigration, naturalization, citizenship, or registry of aliens; or</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>(e) Whoever knowingly makes any false statement or claim that he is, or at any time has been, a citizen or national of the United States, with the intent to obtain on behalf of himself, or any other person, any Federal or State benefit or service, or to engage unlawfully in employment in the United States; or</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This story doesn't just end here, someone had to okay this false document, so lets look again at that Adobe 10 document of his birth certificate, and remember that NO physical hard copy is currently in existance:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The plane, carrying a pilot and eight passengers, went down in the water a half mile off the Hawaiian island of Molokai, the Maui Fire Department said. The lone fatality was Loretta Fuddy, who has served as state health director since January 2011 </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and documents verify that she was also linked to the Subud cult </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and went by the Subud name of “Deliana” Fuddy</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> Tom Matsuda, t</span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">he interim executive director of Hawaii's health insurance exchange, confirmed Fuddy's death.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Fuddy, 65, made national news in April 2011 when she verified the authenticity of certified copies of President Obama's birth certificate. Obama had requested the release to curb claims by so-called "birthers" and Donald Trump that he was born in Kenya and not eligible to be president.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Makani Kai Air President Richard Schuman told Honolulu-based KITV that he spoke with the pilot of the single-engine turboprop Cessna Grand Caravan after the crash.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now in a symbolic move showing support for his own law Obama signed up for Obamacare but the healthcare.gov system couldn't verify his identity, so his staff had to sign him up in person. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The reason is that Obama's personal information is not in any particular government data bases, not even in the <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2011/08/332041/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">social security system</span></a>... Odd.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Like some Americans, the complicated nature of the president’s case required an in-person sign-up,” the official said. “As you’d expect, the president’s personal information is not readily available in the variety of government databases HealthCare.gov uses to verify identities, but it can find everyone else, Why not him if he's an American?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Granted, he waited until the very last second to do it despite pleading with people for months not to wait, okay, his special status allowed him to bypass the website and delegate to his subordinates the aggravation of enrollment, unlike the millions of poor saps who had to be patient and keep trying during the Great 404 Meltdown of 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Of course, Obama will still get his health care from the military, since he is the Commander-in-Chief, so the move was symbolic in nature and had no real meaning, which means that he's sucking you in to completely collapse the economy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Obama administration’s outreach to Iran has been unmasked, and it’s Valerie Jarrett.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Certainly the most interesting and potentially devastating phone call I have received during this election cycle came this week from one of the Obama's campaign internet geeks. These are the staffers who devised Obama's internet fund raising campaign which raised in the neighborhood of $200 million so far. That is more then twice the total funds raised by any candidate in history — and this was all from the internet campaign. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What I learned from this insider was shocking but I guess we shouldn't be surprised that when it comes to fund raising there simply are no rules that can't be broken and no ethics that prevail. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Obama's internet campaign started out innocently enough with basic e-mail networking, lists saved from previous party campaigns and from </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">supporters who visited any of the Obama campaign web sites. Small contributions came in from these sources and the internet campaign staff were more than pleased by the results. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Then, about two months into the campaign the daily contribution intake multiplied. Where was it coming from? One of the web site security monitors began to notice the bulk of the contributions were clearly coming in from overseas internet service providers and at the rate and frequency of transmission it was clear these donations were "programmed" by a very sophisticated user.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While the security people were not able to track most of the sources due to firewalls and other blocking devices put on these contributions they were able to collate the number of contributions that were coming in seemingly from individuals but the funds were from only a few credit card accounts and bank electronic funds transfers. The internet service providers (ISP) they were able to trace were from Saudi Arabia, Iran, and other Middle Eastern countries. One of the banks used for fund transfers was also located in Saudi Arabia. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Another concentrated group of donations was traced to a Chinese ISP with a similar pattern of limited credit card charges. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It became clear that these donations were very likely coming from sources other than American voters. This was discussed at length within the campaign and the decision was made that none of these donations violated campaign financing laws. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It was also decided that it was not the responsibility of the campaign to audit these millions of contributions as to the actual source (specific credit card number or bank transfer account numbers) to insure that none of these internet contributors exceeded the legal maximum donation on a cumulative basis of many small donations. They also found the record keeping was not complete enough to do it anyway. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is a shocking revelation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We have been concerned about the legality of "bundling" contributions after the recent exposure of illegal bundlers but now it appears we may have an even greater problem. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I guess we should have been somewhat suspicious when the numbers started to come out. We were told (no proof offered) that the Obama internet contributions were from $10.00 to $25.00 or so. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If the $200,000,000 is right, and the average contribution was $15.00, that would mean over 13 million individuals made contributions? That would also be 13 million contributions would need to be processed. How did all that happen? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I believe the Obama campaign's internet fund raising needs a serious, in depth investigation and audit. It also appears the whole question of internet fund raising needs investigation by the legislature and perhaps new laws to insure it complies not only with the letter of these laws but the spirit as well.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Jarrett" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Jarrett’s</span></a> status as a White House confidante and major figure has been well-known for some time, but this bit of news marks her first foray into being an official foreign policy surrogate.</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Why would Muslim oil billionaires finance and develop controlling relationships with black college students? Well, like anyone else, they would do it for self-interest. And what would their self-interest be? We all know the top two answers to that question: 1. a Palestinian state and 2. the advancement of Islam in America. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The idea then was to advance blacks who would facilitate these two goals to positions of power in the Federal government, preferably, of course, the Presidency. And why would the Arabs target blacks in particular for this job? Well, for the same reason the early communists chose them as their vanguard for revolution (which literally means “change”) in America. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Please, allow me to quote Trotsky, in 1939: “The American Negroes, for centuries the most oppressed section of American society and the most discriminated against, are potentially the most revolutionary element of the population. They are designated by their historical past to be, under adequate leadership, the very <u>vanguard</u> of the proletarian revolution.” Substitute the word “Islam” for the words “the proletarian revolution,” and you most clearly get the picture, as Islam is a revolutionary movement just like communism is. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">(Trivia: it is from this very quote that communist Van Jones takes his name. Van is short for vanguard. He was born “Anthony”). In addition, long before 1979, blacks had become the <u>vanguard</u> of the spread of Islam in America, especially in prisons. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Valerie Jarrett has an unusual amount of influence over Obama (along with personal security that may be even better than his, another unusual and intriguing bit of business here). And equally interesting is that Obama, who may have been a beneficiary of this Muslim money, and may now be in this Muslim debt, has aggressively pursued both of the Muslim agendas I cited above. And, also equally interesting, is that Obama has paid a king’s ransom for court ordered seals of any such records of this potential financing of his college education, and perhaps, of other of his expenses.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It’s very important to note that Khalid Mansour, “the same lawyer who allegedly helped arrange for the entrance of Barack Obama into Harvard Law School in 1988.” (Valerie Jarrett, by the way, was born in Iran. The one country <a href="http://consortiumnews.com/2013/03/23/obamas-missed-iranian-connection/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">protected by Obama</span></a> from the sweep of the Arab Spring.) Now all of this may seem sensational, but let’s face facts. What makes it most disturbing is that not only is it all logical, but it suddenly makes a lot of previously confusing things make perfect sense. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Though by no means definitive, it provides an interesting insight, at least, into how Chicago politics intersected with the black power movement and Middle Eastern money at a certain point in time. Whether it has any greater relevance in the 2012 presidential campaign, I will allow YOU the reader to decide. </span><br />
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Bobby Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189102534824566345noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303507929825752441.post-69346489964192827602014-02-28T07:45:00.001-08:002014-03-04T07:31:48.829-08:00The Origins of Obamacare <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A book documents for the first time the radical origins of President Obama’s health-care law revealing the principal author of the foundation for the legislation while tracing the law itself to a group funded by George Soros“<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Red-Army-Radical-Network-Defeated/dp/0062069241/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=racerela-20&linkCode=w00&creativeASIN=0062069241" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Red Army</span></a>: The Radical Network that must be defeated to save America” also finds the founders of the controversial Apollo Alliance run by a slew of radicals, helped craft the marketing campaign behind the health-care initiative. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The new book, by authors Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott, exposes what is characterized as “the radical socialist network that seized political power in Washington over decades, shaped Obama’s presidential agenda and threatens the very future of the U.S.” On Obamacare, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Red-Army-Radical-Network-Defeated/dp/0062069241/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=racerela-20&linkCode=w00&creativeASIN=0062069241" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Red Army</span></a>” documents how the legislation, deliberately masked by moderate, populist rhetoric, was carefully crafted and perfected over the course of decades and is a direct product of laborious work by a coalition of radical groups and activists, many with socialist designs. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Those activists seek to “reform” the U.S. health-care industry, which accounts for a significant portion of the U.S. capitalist enterprise.“<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Red-Army-Radical-Network-Defeated/dp/0062069241/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=racerela-20&linkCode=w00&creativeASIN=0062069241" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Red Army</span></a>” reveals the principal author of the foundation for Obamacare is third generation progressive academic Jacob S. Hacker, a Yale professor who is an expert on the politics of U.S. health and social policy. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hacker is author of Health Care for America, the centerpiece of the George Soros–funded Economic Policy Institute’s Agenda for Shared Prosperity. “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Red-Army-Radical-Network-Defeated/dp/0062069241/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=racerela-20&linkCode=w00&creativeASIN=0062069241" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Red Army</span></a>” finds Hacker’s proposal for so-called guaranteed, affordable health care for all Americans is the foundation for Obama’s healthcare plan. Hacker’s plan had its origins in the professor’s multiple other major policy papers on health care, including a 2001 plan for the Covering America project. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In 2003, Hacker first devised a public health insurance program called “Medicare Plus,” which would offer coverage to all legal residents not otherwise covered by Medicare or employer-sponsored insurance. Employers would be required to either provide a minimum level of coverage to their workers or pay a payroll tax.
That plan was the basis for the U.S. National Healthcare Insurance Act, which was first introduced Feb. 2, 2005, in the House by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. The act was sponsored by several other congressmen, all members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus“<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Red-Army-Radical-Network-Defeated/dp/0062069241/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=racerela-20&linkCode=w00&creativeASIN=0062069241" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Red Army</span></a>” documents how the Progressive Caucus was founded by the <a href="http://www.dsausa.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Democrat Socialists of America</span>.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The book charges the caucus works as a <a href="http://joeforamerica.com/2013/11/socialists-marxists-communists-liberals-progressivessame-animals-pack/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Marxist-socialist block in Congress</span></a> to introduce progressive legislation with socialist intent.
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Red-Army-Radical-Network-Defeated/dp/0062069241/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=racerela-20&linkCode=w00&creativeASIN=0062069241" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Red Army</span></a>” documents how a little-known marketing outfit called the Herndon Alliance helped to market Obamacare, even providing suggestions on which words supporters should use the promote the bill Acceptable phrases include “quality affordable health care”; “American solutions”; “giving security and peace of mind”; “fair rules”; “government as watchdog”; “smart investments, investing in the future”; and “affordable health plans.” </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Unacceptable words include “universal health care”; “Canadian-style health care”; “Medicare for All”; “regulations”; “free”; “government or public health care”; and “wellness.”
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">She also serves on the board of directors of the <a href="http://www.wiser.org/organization/view/d380d145c9068f772f74e3302899571f" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Progressive Congress Action Fund</span></a> alongside Robert Borosage, whose Healthcare for America Now anticipated spending $42 million in its final push for passage of Obamacare. AE was founded in 2004 by a team of American strategists and Canadian researchers. In April 2005, current AE managing partners Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger started AE’s American branch. One year before Shellenberger did imaging for Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Nordhaus and Shellenberger co-founded the <a href="http://rightsoup.com/the-apollo-alliance-hijacking-our-entire-country/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Apollo Alliance</span></a> sometime around 2002 and were two of its original national board members“<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Red-Army-Radical-Network-Defeated/dp/0062069241/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=racerela-20&linkCode=w00&creativeASIN=0062069241" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Red Army</span></a>” exposes how Apollo helped draft not only the president’s green jobs programs, but also the $787 billion economic stimulus bill and other proposed new energy legislation Apollo is led by a slew of radicals, including Van Jones, Jeff Jones, who heads Apollo’s New York branch and is a former top leader of the Weatherman terrorist organization, and Joel Rogers, a founder of the socialist New Party. Obama’s controversial former “green” jobs czar, Van Jones, sits on Apollo’s board. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, several major groups were founded to lobby for the legislation that became Obama’s healthcare law Healthcare-NOW, not to be confused with the organization Health Care for America Now, was established in 2004 for one purpose – to lobby on behalf of single-payer healthcare. Healthcare-NOW’s broad base includes socialist, labor, church and community organizations and, most notably, Physicians for a National Health Program. National Health Program. Healthcare-NOW co-chairmen include Dr. Quentin D. Young, who is considered father of the single-payer movement.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Young advised Obama during his days as a senator. Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the radical <a href="http://www.codepink.org/article.php?id=51" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Code Pink</span></a> anti-war group, is a member of Healthcare-NOW’s board of directors.
Another major group leading the charge to transform health care has been Campaign for America’s Future. CAF was founded in 1990 by Robert L. Borosage. Roger Hickey, co-founder of the Soros-funded Economic Policy Institute which “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Red-Army-Radical-Network-Defeated/dp/0062069241/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=racerela-20&linkCode=w00&creativeASIN=0062069241" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Red Army</span></a>” ties to the health-care bill, is credited as being a CAF co-founder as well CAF unveiled the lobby, Health Care for America Now, or HCAN, which “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Red-Army-Radical-Network-Defeated/dp/0062069241/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=racerela-20&linkCode=w00&creativeASIN=0062069241" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Red Army</span></a>” documents deceptively maintains that it is a “national grassroots campaign.” HCAN’s lead member organizations include ACORN; MoveOrg; AFSCME; Americans United for Change, Planned Parenthood Federation of America; SEIU; United Food and Commercial Workers; and the Soros-funded Center for American Progress Action Fund, which is highly influential in advising the White House. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Red-Army-Radical-Network-Defeated/dp/0062069241/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=racerela-20&linkCode=w00&creativeASIN=0062069241" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Red Army</span></a>” documents how Obama and progressive Democrats are deliberately overloading the U.S. financial system, using socialist designs to remake the economy. The book, with nearly 1,500 endnotes, documents how these radicals aim to remake the American financial system with massive government control.“Red Army” contains a number of other major scoops while exposing the radical socialist network that seized political power in Washington over decades, shaped Obama’s presidential agenda and threatens the future of the U.S.
Some other highlights from “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Red-Army-Radical-Network-Defeated/dp/0062069241/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=racerela-20&linkCode=w00&creativeASIN=0062069241" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Red Army</span></a>”: </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The existence of a powerful “Marxist-socialist” bloc in Congress (explicitly formed as an arm of the Democratic Socialists of America) and how it is behind legislation in areas that affect all Americans, including the complete <u>socialization of health care and comprehensive immigration reform</u>, which, the book exposes, seeks to change the very nature of the American electorate In two chapters that <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Cscript%20charset=%22utf-8%22%20type=%22text/javascript%22%3E%20%20%20amzn_assoc_ad_type%20=%20%22product_link%22;%20%20%20amzn_assoc_tracking_id%20=%20%22racerela-20%22;%20%20%20amzn_assoc_marketplace%20=%20%22amazon%22;%20%20%20amzn_assoc_region%20=%20%22US%22;%20%20%20amzn_assoc_placement%20=%20%220062069241%22;%20%20%20amzn_assoc_asins%20=%20%220062069241%22;%20%20%20amzn_assoc_show_border%20=%20false;%20%20%20amzn_assoc_link_opens_in_new_window%20=%20true;%20%20%20amzn_assoc_price_color%20=%20%22333333%22;%20%20%20amzn_assoc_title_color%20=%20%220B28EF%22;%20%20%20amzn_assoc_bg_color%20=%20%22F9EB00%22;%20%3C/script%3E%20%3Cscript%20src=%22http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&Operation=GetScript&ID=OneJS&WS=1&l=as1&source=ac&ref=qf_sp_asin_til%22%3E%20%3C/script%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">every American must read</span></a>, entirely new information s laid bare on the left’s unprecedented assault on America’s already over- liberalized education system. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Does anyone remember during Obama's State of the Union Address when Obama announced that he would create a new kind of retirement account, (Lovingly called) the MyRA – which uses your retirement savings to buy U.S. Treasures and pay for U.S. debt?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Obama’s announcement follows a number of startling events which demonstrate how <a href="http://oicw65-racerelations.blogspot.com/2011/08/history-lesson-about-debt-and-deficits.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">desperate</span></a> the government is becoming: with nowhere else to turn, the government is making a last-ditch effort to seize personal savings & retirement to fund the nation’s insurmountable debt. And there’s only ONE thing you can do to stop it from happening. So I'm going to give you the up & up on what this scam is designed to do.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The U.S. debt, not including unfunded liabilities, is over $17 trillion dollars. And the U.S. Treasury estimates our debt to go over $28 trillion by 2018! In order to finance this debt, the Federal Reserve has been buying 90% of the U.S. Treasury market through money-printing stimulus, to the tune of $80 BILLION per month for the last several years. And we all know that the Fed has begun tapering its stimulus program because they can no longer afford to fund the national debt.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So if the Fed is going insolvent, who do you think the government will lean on to pick up the slack? The answer is YOU. 10,000 Baby Boomers will turn 65 years-old every day until 2030. And while the government has a debt problem of $17 trillion, not so coincidentally, our country's IRAs, 401Ks and other retirement accounts amount to right around $19 Trillion. What a convenient resource for the Federal Government!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Obama suddenly announces in his State of the Union Address that he’s got a great “no risk” idea for Americans saving for their retirement. His exact words: “I will direct the Treasury to create a new way for working Americans to start their own retirement savings: MyRA. It’s a new savings bond that encourages folks to build a nest egg. MyRA guarantees a decent return with no risk of losing what you put in.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In other words, YOU the American taxpayers will start buying U.S. Treasuries because the insolvent Fed can no longer do so. Whenever anyone tells you an investment is “no risk,” you know you’re being sold another Wallstreet.gov scam. No risk? Nonsense. If you buy a 10-year Treasury bill now, you’re locked in at a low interest rate – a rate that has been kept artificially low by Fed stimulus. Well, Fed stimulus is ending. And that means we’re headed into an inflationary environment where interest rates have nowhere to go but up. So in other words, your bond investments lose significant value <b>EVERY SINGLE YEAR</b>. Hardly no risk.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And how do you feel about investing in a mountain of unsustainable debt? Most experts (and anyone with common sense) have demonstrated how our national debt levels can NEVER be paid off. And now, those same experts are predicting the imminent collapse of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. So if the market for U.S. Treasuries is drying up and the demand for U.S. dollars implodes, does investment in America’s debt seem like a “no risk” move to you?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So, what happens if you’re not willing to invest in Obama’s MyRa? How does the government get the funding it needs to continue financing and growing the debt? The answer: FORCE you to make your retirement funds accessible to the government.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you do some research on US Bill “<a href="http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=HB5337&which_year=2013" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">HB5337</span></a>,” you will find the plan to nationalize retirement wealth. On May 6, 2012 Lauren Schmitz, a research analyst at the Bernard L Schwartz Center for Economic Analyst (SCEPA), introduced HB5337. This 401(k)/IRA de-privatization is the brainchild of Teresa Ghilarducci, whom through funding from the White House and the Ford & Rockefeller Foundations engineered a new “Regulatory & Tax Incentive.” The purpose is to force Americans to convert their Retirement Accounts into Government Managed accounts.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The government will nationalize retirement accounts like IRAs, 401Ks, pensions, 403Bs, etc. so that you will be forced to use a portion of your retirement wealth to purchase U.S. government debt – debt that will ultimately default, as it is not possible to sustain our astronomical debt nor the deficits that create it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This plan to nationalize private 401K and IRA retirement accounts is being deceptively publicized as the government protecting the public against business failings or state bankruptcies. But the reality is, your cash, your retirement funds, your bank deposits and your investments are at huge risk of being confiscated by the government through some contrived reason or another.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So the government is giving you two options: fund the debt willingly, or fund the debt by force.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Given those two “options,” it might seem like you have no control over your savings & retirement. But don’t be fooled – You DO have control. You can REMOVE a portion of your savings & retirement from a financial system on the brink of collapse and store your wealth instead in the ONE asset that lives outside the madness, CAN’T be harmed by the debt disaster or dollar collapse, CAN’T default, and CAN’T be confiscated with the stroke of a key on a computer: <b>REAL PHYSICAL GOLD AND SILVER</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Gold has outlasted every paper currency the world has ever known.</span><br />
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Bobby Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189102534824566345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303507929825752441.post-65481582091684373922014-01-24T06:44:00.001-08:002014-01-24T06:44:59.959-08:00Cry Of The New American Revolution<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Given the stunning advances Western society made over the last hundred years both socially and technologically, most Americans grew up with the belief that things would always “turn out for the best” in the long run, and this was a chief underpinning of our worldview. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Despite having fought such foes as Adolf Hitler and weathered the prolonged tensions and fears of the Cold War, even these had come to inspiring conclusions. I think that until very recently, few Americans ever considered a fundamental paradigm shift for the worse. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Our positive worldview has been a two-edged sword of sorts. On the one hand, it tempered our resolve and conviction; when you believe you’re going to win, it can go a long way toward manifesting that victory. On the other hand, given such an outlook, one – or a nation – might get lulled into a false sense of security. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I believe that this is, in part, precisely what occurred with regard to the American people and the enemies from within against whom we are now engaged.
We believed that given the promise the future and our aggregate potential held, and our ability to contribute to the betterment of those around the globe, who would even want to stand against us?
Those who have a desire to foment or prolong human suffering – that’s who.
I admonish Americans to stop seeding ground to America’s enemies as a stratagem toward strengthening our position against these enemies from within. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This generally evolves those in special interest groups and the manner in which we view and interact with them. I pointed out how they, in keeping with the desires of their leftist leaders, employ “wedge” issues that appeal to Americans’ good nature or fear in order to incrementally modify our behavior, and how these have, over time, insidiously compromised every aspect of our society. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here, I will address the government. While the federal government is at present the primary offender, the motivations and professional ethics of many at the state and local level have also been compromised (often by the federal government itself). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Lately we have seen dark factions pouring millions of dollars into state politics, as well as those in state governments who are ideologically aligned with those at the federal level, governing against the will of the people. This includes politicians, of course, but can also include state and local government officials, the judiciary, as well as law enforcement. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The net used to ensnare our liberties has been cast repeatedly over a long period of time, and each time it is cast increasingly wider. For example, laws and statutes that violate the Second Amendment have been passed over many decades, which should have drawn severe backlash from citizens.
They did not, because they were ostensibly offered as for our own good. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Taxation and thousands of regulations concocted as fiat law by unconstitutional federal agencies have become more and more ideology-driven and tyrannical. We have only taken notice because the Obama administration “upped the game” almost exponentially with regard to advancing the statist agenda. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> At this point, the liberties government has taken (pun intended) with regard to usurping our liberty are enumerable, and no half- hearted political solution will address their transgressions or this retrogression from governance to rule. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> While this administration definitely represents a clear and present danger to our liberties, the Constitution and the continuance of this nation as a growing concern, it is really just an acute symptom of a progressive disease that has gone untreated for far too long. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Those who govern us are evil and audacious; their rhetoric and that of their supporters reflects a desperation beyond urgency. The criminals in government are aware of their crimes and are banking on Americans’ desire for relative safety and comfort outweighing our desire for liberty. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They are also banking on our ignorance of the fact that we will lose all three if their agenda continues unchecked. Ultimately, they must be made to realize that there is a willingness (if not a desire) on the part of the American people to go to any length to wrest the government from them.If they do not perceive this willingness, they will simply continue in their designs to subjugate us. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They may not win, but the toll will be very great. Better to convey our willingness to fight and possibly circumvent the necessity to fight altogether.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The mainstream media will treat it as a serious presentation and make no mention of the lies. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The “low information” Americans will take Barack Obama at his word. Nearly half of all Americans who might listen to the speech or read about it are on some form of government dole or entitlement program. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They are interested in food stamps unemployment compensation, their disability status, and an older generation will understandably want to ensure their Social Security checks keep coming and Medicare will continue to underwrite their medical costs.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Whatever Obama has to say about the Affordable Care Act—Obamacare—will be a lie His administration continues to lie about the number of those who have enrolled, but we know they are mostly the elderly while the younger generation wisely avoids it. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We live in a nation where more than 90 million Americans are out of work, cannot find work, or have given up looking for work. Anything Obama has to say about the economy will be a lie.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">When Obama gives his speech, the total population of America will be 317,490,000 people. It is the third-most populous nation in the world with 82% residing in cities in suburbs as of 2011. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Anyone who has driven throughout the nation knows that much of it is nearly uninhabited. A mere 2% of the population are the farmers and ranchers who feed the rest of us.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The two most populous states are California and Texas. New York City has the largest population of the nation’s cities. It just elected a Communist as its new mayor. He has announced he intends to raise taxes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">There are an estimated eleven million illegal aliens living in America and The New York Times reports that number may be growing. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Previous efforts at amnesty resulted in not only endowing them with citizenship but their entire families, many of whom joined them from their home nations. At a time of high unemployment among natural born and naturalized citizens, increasing the population in this fashion will only add to the economic problems the slowest recovery in decades represents. In Congress Democrats favor an amnesty.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Republicans are unsure of whether to oppose or accept it.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In addition to amnesty, the President will no doubt make some mention of tax reform. The reform the nation needs is the elimination of the income tax in favor of a fair tax based on consumption of products and services. You buy it. You pay a national sales tax.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">No doubt the President will make some reference to gun control. He has been unable to get any legislation about it and has relied on executive orders to impose limits on the Second Amendment. Meanwhile, Americans are buying guns like crazy. It’s about self-defense and the prospect of a President who may not want to leave office He will cite the Newtown slayings, but mass slayings in America have not increased in decades. It is not common, though it is always tragic.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It’s hard to predict how much time Obama will devote to“climate change”, but this greatest hoax of the modern era is very dear to him and the Democrats in Congress. A group of them are signing a letter to be sent to the heads of the network channels urging them to devote more airtime to lies about how carbon dioxide is causing the Earth to warm and poses a huge threat. The Earth meanwhile, has been in a cooling cycle for seventeen years and many Americans recently experienced record- setting cold weather. More of them—though only about 23%--are beginning to express doubts about global warming. Duh.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The climate change agenda is being pursued outrageously by Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency which is issuing regulations intended to continue shutting down existing coal-fired plants that generate electricity and keep new ones from being built. It is a direct attack on the nation’s economy which depends on electricity. Whatever Obama says about it will be a lie.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">No doubt he will make reference to his latest scam, income inequality. If there is one thing communists love it is class warfare. The best way to reduce income inequality is well known. economy that provides more Meanwhile, there may be a passing reference to increasing the minimum wage, a great way to deny entry-level jobs to young workers and increase the cost of everything else to the consumer.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Obama is not likely to have much to say about foreign affairs. In general he has managed to reduce America’s role as an international leader for democracy, justice and human rights. We are running out of allies, especially in the Middle East where Israel remain friendly.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When I was a young man coming of age in the 1980s I could never imagine living in a nation whose moral structure was such that a million unborn children are killed every year by abortion. I would never have believed that some 40% of women would choose to be single mothers. Or that the divorce rate would reach 50% and more. I could never imagine young men and women graduating from college with huge debts in an economy where jobs were not only fewer, but subject to an Obamacare law that forces businesses to cut the number of hours they work, limiting their earning capacity.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is not an America I envisioned, but it is one that Presidents and Congresses since the Great Depression of the 1930s whose government they have expanded to the point where many Americans regard Big Government as the biggest problem facing the nation. They’re right.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Keep in mind that this book was published on
10/16/11, one month before Beck admitted complete ignorance "with the
<a href="http://amzn.to/VY4nKv" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">economy</span></a>." Chapter 1 is entitled "Ancient History, Modern
Lessons," and that misrepresents the overall subject of the first chapter
which is how past empires can serve as a warning to our current status as the
world's remaining superpower and hegemonic state.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt;">This isn’t exactly a new theme for an
</span><a href="http://amzn.to/VY4nKv" style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">American economic calamity</span></a><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt;"> for several years. The irony is that his </span><em style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt;">“Plan”</em><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt;">
now places the blame for our dilemma on the American people. Once you see what
we’re really up against, it’s much easier to develop a realistic plan. To fix
ourselves financially, Glenn argues, we have to fix </span><em style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt;">ourselves</em><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt;"> first.
That means some serious introspection and, ultimately, a series of actions that
will unite all Americans around the concept of shared sacrifice.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We are the problem. And to fix it
Beck has suddenly adopted the notion of shared sacrifice, a concept he
previously regarded as abhorrent and a product of the socialistic ideology that
he believes diminishes individual freedom and responsibility. Furthermore, his
own philosophy is one that advocates allowing our economic system to <a href="http://amzn.to/VY4nKv" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">crash and burn</span></a>. Again, a concept he previously reviled as the Cloward/Piven strategy. He
asserts that we are beyond the point of no return and must abandon all measures
to stimulate growth and create jobs. Let the bottom fall out, cower in your
bunker with your Survival Seeds and gold coins. Cling to your God and guns and,
if your faith is strong enough, you will be redeemed by some miracle from
above.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Our nation is <a href="http://amzn.to/VY4nKv" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">financially broke</span></a>, but that’s
just a side effect of our broken spirit, our broken faith in government, the
broken promises by our leaders, and a broken political system that has
centralized power at the expense of individual rights. How did we get into this
mess? <b><a href="http://amzn.to/VY4nKv" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Glenn Beck</span></a></b> thinks the answer
is pretty simple: Because we’ve turned our backs on the Constitution. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Few of us have ever seen the whole picture,
and politicians have done everything in their power to hide the truth. </span><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt;"><a href="http://amzn.to/VY4nKv" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Broke</span></a></span></i></b><i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">exposes
what we’re really facing—and how to fix it. Packed with great stories from
history, invaluable teachable moments, and <b><a href="http://amzn.to/VY4nKv" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Glenn Beck</span></a></b>’s trademark combination of entertainment and enlightenment, </span><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt;"><a href="http://amzn.to/VY4nKv" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Broke</span></a></span></i></b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 16.0pt;"> </span></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">makes the
case that when you’re traveling in the wrong direction, slight course
corrections won’t cut it—you need to take drastic action. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Through a return to
individual rights, an uncompromising adherence to the Constitution, and a
complete rethinking about the role of government in a free society, Glenn exposes
the idea of “<a href="http://amzn.to/VY4nKv" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">transformation</span></a>” for the progressive smokescreen that it is, and
instead builds a compelling case that restoration is the only way forward. With
this awareness, it’s much easier to develop a realistic plan for uniting all
Americans around the concept of shared sacrifice. After all, this generation
may not be asked to storm beaches, but we are being asked to do something just
as critical to preserving freedom.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">I began warning about Barack Obama’s ambitions right after he won the 2008 presidential election. Now, finally, more people are beginning to take this possibility as a serious threat.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Rather than lashing out with absurd statements like this, the Marxmeister does much better when he follows the far-left playbook and innocently feigns indignation over anything that isn’t to his liking. Or when he vilifies his natural enemies – primarily Republicans, the “rich” and tea partiers and Israel.<br /><br />Targeting the 1% showed a lack of business savvy in adhering to his well-planned stealth-Marxism strategy. His angry, careless remark must have given chest pains to cheerleading, brainless Obamaviks everywhere.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I will say yet again what I have been saying for more than three years: But since Obama has won the 2012 election, My message fell upon death ears. After January 20, 2013, he’ll move swiftly to unleash a dictatorial full monty – consisting of more regulations, higher taxes and less freedom – that will make even his staunchest Marxist allies say "DAMN Barack!, that's mean".</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Nothing will be off limits; just think of it: a national police force, instant citizenship for all Third World people who want to come to America, forced equalization of income (except for Obama’s wealthy supporters, who'll be getting kickbacks), widespread use of tax audits to carry out vendettas against enemies of his administration, a virtual end to oil drilling, coal mining and gas exploration, suspension of habeas corpus, a new sedition act that will make it a crime to speak out against the government, the police, or the military … and much, much more.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">During a speech in Las Vegas, Obama, railing on about the woefull economy he inherited, said that “we can’t wait for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to do its job. Where they won’t act, I will.” It was a clear message about his dictatorial intentions in his second term.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 16.5pt;">Likewise, notwithstanding his cunning and cleverness, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0156701537/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_til?tag=racerela-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0156701537&adid=1JW6EPWS77S0YTRMAV7S&&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Foicw65-racerelations.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F12%2Fthe-idea-of-america.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Ceasar" Obama</span></a> didn’t walk into a finely tuned republic and reduce it to a redistribution-of-wealth democracy overnight. The reason he and his left-wing cronies have been able to violate the Constitution as though it didn’t exist is that they are merely taking advantage of the decay of our republic into a democracy – and the subsequent decay of our democracy – that was already present when they came to power.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Founding Fathers realized that a democracy is but a pretense for tyranny of the majority. Like all democracies before it, our democracy has destroyed itself through an excess of democracy. Majority rule has evolved into a free-for-all stampede of citizens appealing to politicians to give them more and more of the plunder. And there is never a shortage of vile human beings who are willing to resort to meaningless slogans like “hope and change” to win over the mindless masses, or in other words,, that 47% so famously spoken about here-of-late.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">This is an important issue, because I continue to believe that if a dictatorship starts to emerge (many would argue that it already has), it may ultimately get down to a question of whether, at the moment of truth, the military will take orders from Barack Obama or, instead, side with American citizens.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Those who chuckle at all this would do well to bone up on their history. But in the event you have no idea where to begin, then I'll suggest we start looking at "Drone" flights over US cities.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">So not only can Obama now imprison us with no charges, he can spy on us and if need be fire a missile at us from one of the predator drones that will now be roaming the skies above America. Why the fuck would predator drones be needed in America? The weight of evidence grows by the day. Our government is preparing for an epic collapse and will do everything in their power to retain control over the ignorant masses. Will the ignorant masses ever wake up? </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;">If it wasn't before, the ultimate purpose of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0156701537/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_til?tag=racerela-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0156701537&adid=1JW6EPWS77S0YTRMAV7S&&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Foicw65-racerelations.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F12%2Fthe-idea-of-america.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Dictator Barack Hussein Obama</span></a> should now be clear to even his most die-hard fans. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">With Obama's planned and now-revised "Cyber-security Act of 2009, his inordinately broad and sweeping powers to take control of the Internet AND private networks is making its way through the Senate.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">The bill gives Obama's Executive Branch the power to shut down the Internet for any reason he considers to be a "Cyber-security emergency." That, of course, is anything Obama decides to declare an emergency. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">Those who have been living in a cave for the last several years might ask "What's the reason for this suspension if not dissolution of liberty?" </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">The answers are: </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">1. because Obama can. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">2. To shut down ALL opposition to his <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0156701537/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_til?tag=racerela-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0156701537&adid=1JW6EPWS77S0YTRMAV7S&&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Foicw65-racerelations.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F12%2Fthe-idea-of-america.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">totalitarian programs</span></a> and regime. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">3. To stop any and all warnings going out en masse when Obama's initial troops begin arriving in our towns and cities. Don't think so? Nothing else makes any sense either folks.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">Note:</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">The only good news is that many former Obama supporters are now - finally - beginning to see and feel the dictator's relentlessly encroaching darkness. Even they don't like it and are beginning to feel the fear move up their reinserted spines. Obama is also now actively working to demoralize - if not completely shut down - the CIA. Does anyone else think it was even mildly coincidental that Obama already has his personal '<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0156701537/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_til?tag=racerela-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0156701537&adid=1JW6EPWS77S0YTRMAV7S&&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Foicw65-racerelations.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F12%2Fthe-idea-of-america.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">replacement</span></a>' interrogation team in place? Will Obama's new and personal "security team" soon replace the entire CIA or will there still be a skeleton crew left for show purposes? Placing the now former USA in jeopardy of another major attack doesn't bother Obama in the least. Does anyone else wonder whose side Obama is on? Bye-bye CIA.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">The tyrant is already going against the will of the American people with both his ObamaCare and Cap and Trade. Both of these bills are designed to further gut the country of its wealth and liberties and its ability to survive. And in order to partially fund the ObamaCare multi-Trillion-dollar package (per the Congressional Budget Office), Obama plans to further raze Medicare. Bye-bye seniors. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">Note:</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">In his column "The Ugly Truth of Obamacare" budget becomes strained, as it must - and, as Obama admits, already is under Medicare - the government will have to cut back on what it lets people have." But, after admitting that he will cut back on Medicare benefits(called 'rationing"), Obama continues to say he won't ration health care to Seniors. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">Suffice it to say, Obama has become a Master of speaking out of both sides of his mouth - and remarkably at the same time! Obama is a classic example of the "double-minded man; Bye-bye common or any other kind of sense.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">Since his usurping of the US presidency (have you heard the latest Obama birth certificate rumor that it was burned up in a fire?), Obama has instituted one assault after another against the American people.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">Note: No one in his or her sane mind would be doing these things except out of hatred for the victims. Even before his "election" he spoke about his <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0156701537/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_til?tag=racerela-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0156701537&adid=1JW6EPWS77S0YTRMAV7S&&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Foicw65-racerelations.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F12%2Fthe-idea-of-america.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">disdain for the US Constitution</span></a>. Yet, more and more people are asking "With everything going to Hell in a hand basket, why is Obama still smiling broadly?"</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">There are actually at least two answers:</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">1. Because he's setting up a White House Emporium - with all necessary private police and enhanced voter fraud units - so that he will never be forced, let alone voted, out of office. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">2. Because the destruction of the USA and its "transformation" into ObamaLand was his plan all along.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">Despite his promises to end the war, President Obama has continued to expand his presidential powers in the War on Terror, which are legal executive privileges that began in the Bush administration. The key difference is that Obama's authority seems to be more ambiguous, more powerful, and less defined than in the previous administrations. When Obama was accused of violating the Constitution with the passage of his Affordable Care Act, at least the Supreme Court could justify the legitimacy of the legislation by invoking the Constitution's Taxing and Spending Clause. However, with the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, he is vested with extrajudicial powers that at times contradict the very principles codified by the Founding Fathers.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">One such power is granted under the </span><a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr1540enr/pdf/BILLS-112hr1540enr.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">NDAA's section 1021 and 1022</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">, which contain the provisions that allow the president to indefinitely detain a terrorist suspect without a trial. In an interview with John Cusack on Truthout.com, the George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley observes that this effectively undermines the due process guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution that could be detrimental to our civil liberties if the power is used irresponsibly.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">This violation of the due process of law is viewed by Turley as a dangerous concession by U.S. citizens that could lead to greater encroachment on our liberties in the future. According to Turley, it is "meaningless" that Obama has pledged to not use his powers against U.S. citizens because he still possesses the legal authority to do so. It is uncertain whether future administrations will be so "disciplined" in its refrain from indefinitely detaining or killing U.S. citizens (on home soil) who speak out against the government, tasks that can be legally accomplished by labeling them terrorists and subsequently circumventing the mechanisms of the judicial process guaranteed by the Constitution.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">In response to such concerns, President Obama issued a policy directive in February that narrows the coverage of indefinite detention to non-U.S. citizens and does not allow those under his administration to detain citizens or legal permanent residents captured on U.S. soil.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">However, legal columnist Joanne Mariner still finds the issue unresolved because the directive could just as easily be rescinded by future presidents. She suggests that American citizens on U.S. soil have not ensured that their constitutional liberties are protected as long as section 1021 and section 1022 of the NDAA remain as they are now because we are subjected to the executive branch's "discretion" unless there are changes to the statute itself. Currently, a bill called the Due Process Guarantee Act that would make it illegal to detain a citizen or lawful permanent resident has been in review by the Senate Judiciary Committee since last year.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">Another controversial position taken by President Obama is the expansion of federal authority beyond Afghanistan in the war against terrorism. In a secret interagency memorandum issued by the administration's legal counsel in 2010, wherever someone who is a threat to the security of the United States is located, even outside of war zones such as Afghanistan, it is lawful to kill him "if it is not feasible to take him alive." This expanded geographic jurisdiction was demonstrated in the case of Anwar al-Awlaki, an alleged leader of al Qaeda who was killed in 2011 by an American drone in Yemen with secret consent from the Yemeni president. Thus the war is not simply restricted to terrorist activities in Afghanistan anymore; it can be anywhere. The case was also unprecedented in that it marked the federal government's targeted killing of a U.S. citizen without a trial.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">It would be difficult to find a more insightful source into the Obama administration concerning these legal issues than Attorney General Eric Holder. In a speech to students at Northwestern University School of Law this past March, he reveals the administration's position as one whose actions "must always be grounded on the bedrock of the Constitution – and must always be consistent with statutes, court precedent, the rule of law and our founding ideals."</span></span></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;"> After praising the Executive Branch's fairness in allowing terrorists to be prosecuted in civilian courts, he goes on to explain the necessity of occasionally bypassing those courts in favor of military tribunals:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">"Military commissions are also appropriate in proper circumstances, and we can use them as well to convict terrorists and disrupt their plots. […] Reformed commissions allow for the protection of sensitive sources and methods of intelligence gathering, and for the safety and security of participants. […] A key difference is that, in military commissions, evidentiary rules reflect the realities of the battlefield and of conducting investigations in a war zone. For example, statements may be admissible even in the absence of Miranda warnings, because we cannot expect military personnel to administer warnings to an enemy captured in battle. But instead, a military judge must make other findings – for instance, that the statement is reliable and that it was made voluntarily."</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R41163.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">The Military Commissions Act of 2009</span></a><span style="color: #222222;"> redefined who would be eligible for trial before military commissions, stating that an "unprivileged enemy belligerent" is compared to the previous "unlawful enemy combatant." </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">Critics of the statute contend that the definition of a "belligerent" is too broad because it expands the class of persons who will be tried by a military commission as opposed to a civilian court, and that it limits the judicial review for non-U.S. citizens who are accused of even providing "support" to hostilities, putting them on the same ground as those who "engage" in hostilities.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">According to Joanne Mariner, except for these few cosmetic changes to the language of the MCA of 2006, which the then-Senator Obama voted against, the key provisions remain essentially the same. She notes that this discrimination on the basis of U.S. citizenship is a violation of international human rights obligations and the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">Holder's response to the criticism is, "There is, quite simply, no inherent contradiction between using military commissions in appropriate cases while still prosecuting other terrorists in civilian courts. Without question, there are differences between these systems that must be – and will continue to be – weighed carefully. Such decisions about how to prosecute suspected terrorists are core Executive Branch functions." </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">Essentially, Holder is saying that the power to determine suspects who will be tried in a normal civilian court or a military tribunal still lies with the president and those under his authority, not Congress or the Supreme Court.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">Even with the Obama administration's claim of goodwill in not exercising the power to indefinitely detain or potentially kill a citizen within the United States without a trial, legislation such as the NDAA sets up the mechanisms that allow the president to largely bypass the checks and balances of the other branches of government, a system so vital to the foundation of our civil liberties that potential transgressions by the executive authority should not be ignored.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;">Holder ends his speech by saying, "Our most sacred principles and values – of security, justice and liberty for all citizens – must continue to unite us, to guide us forward, and to help us build a future that honors our founding documents and advances our ongoing – uniquely American – pursuit of a safer, more just, and more perfect union." </span></span></o:p></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span> <br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Visionaries Pierre Lemieux and William Bonner invite readers to re-examine long accepted notions of what America is and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1891434136/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1891434136&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">what it means to be an American</span></a>. Lemieux and Bonner carefully chose each of the written works included in the striking anthology to spark imagination, thought, and debate. </span><br />
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Bobby Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189102534824566345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303507929825752441.post-16048471523577290212012-12-05T17:40:00.001-08:002013-01-31T05:30:06.234-08:00The Road To Serfdom; By F. A. Hayek<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;">Margaret Thatcher</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;">Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative prime
minister who dismantled Britain's socialist economy in the 1980s, once noted
that "there can be no liberty without economic liberty."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;">In Thatcher's opinion, the
freedom to employ one's resources as one sees fit is the hallmark of all other
political rights. While Thatcher's observation is quite correct, it no doubt
benefited from hindsight. By the 1980s, Thatcher had experienced the very real
difficulties presented to freedom and prosperity in her efforts to dismantle
Britain's cumbersome welfare state. Moreover, she had begun to see the
crumbling of the socialist system in neighboring countries such as France and
the Soviet Union.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;">Some forty years earlier,
however, before the United Kingdom implemented its vast system of planning,
another Briton named F.A. Hayek made a similar point in his acclaimed treatise,
"The Road to Serfdom." In the book, Hayek connects the concept of a planned
economy with the Nazi rise to power in Germany in the 1930s. "The rise of
fascism and Nazism," writes Hayek, "was not a reaction against the
socialist trends of the proceeding period but a necessary outcome of those
tendencies."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;">Writing in 1944, at a time when
many Americas and Britons feared Hitler's totalitarianism and simultaneously
supported a continuation of the wartime planning of the economy, Hayek
invariably tied the two concepts together. According to Hayek, a state that
assumes control over what is produced "would control what we consume
almost as effectively as if it directly told us how to spend our income."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;">For Hayek, once economic
freedom is lost, all other freedoms are soon to follow. In fact, "The Road to Serfdom" paints a clear picture of how even tentative steps towards
socialism inevitably lead to totalitarianism.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;">Socialism, says Hayek,
exchanges society's supreme ideal of freedom for the vague concept of
"fairness." But by focusing on fairness, society slowly abandons its
respect for the rule of law. What is "fair" is determined by judges
and the state and may very well conflict with an individual's right to
property, prosperity, or political freedom. In other words, once a state can
control competition, redistribute wealth, or plan aspects of the economy, it
becomes the ultimate arbiter of right and wrong.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;">Hayek also points out that a
democratic government cannot salvage freedom in a socialist system, despite the
passionate arguments to the contrary on the left. Instead, notes Hayek, democracy
must ultimately succumb to absolute planners because the legislative branch of
democracy is simply unable to plan -- or decide what is fair for all of society
-- on a massive scale. Even defenders of socialism, notes Hayek, acknowledge
that an economic plan needs a unitary concept to be effective. "Planning
leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of
coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central
planning on a large scale is to be possible."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;">Even if a socialist government
were able to maintain democracy, however, Hayek points out that the system
would not necessarily preserve freedom. Unlike liberty, says Hayek, democracy
is not the highest political end. In Hayek's words democracy merely is a
"utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual
freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or certain."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;">Such observations are worth
remembering as the United States eagerly promotes democracy around the world.
The Soviet Union, it is worth remembering, claimed to be the most democratic
nation on earth. While democracy is certainly a useful political system it does
not, by itself, create or protect liberty. As Hayek notes, economic freedom,
not democracy alone, is the ultimate protector of human freedom.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;">Despite Hayek's passionate
defense of liberty, he does not advocate an extreme laissez-faire approach to
economic affairs. Hayek recognizes that some aspects of the economy and human
interaction cannot be effectively resolved through competition. In these
situations, Hayek advocates government intervention to address market failures.
In a notable departure from classical liberalism or today's libertarianism,
Hayek defends regulating poisonous substances or working hours as long as the
measures are consistently and generally applied.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;">While this position of limited
government intervention provides some insight into Hayek's personal views of
the appropriate place for government, "The Road to Serfdom" is
largely a reactionary work. Hayek vigorously attacks planning and
totalitarianism, but he generally avoids stating his own position of
government's place in the economy.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;">In some respects, of course,
the absence of Hayek's own views highlights the importance and urgency of what
he did say -- namely, that the continuation of wartime planning in America and
Britain would lead to totalitarianism. In this light it is conceivable that
Hayek did not want to distract the reader from his warning by introducing his
own views into the argument. Still, Hayek's consistent focus on one topic and
the negative tone of his writing makes the book somewhat repetitive.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;">In fact, for today's
post-Reagan era readers, the more subtle remarks of Hayek's work may have the
most impact. Hayek warns, for instance, against the leftist practice of
vilifying capitalism by pointing to the negative aspects of the system such as
unemployment or inequality. "It is essential," he writes, "that
we should re-learn frankly to face the fact that freedom can be had only at a
price and that as individuals we must be prepared to make severe material
sacrifices to preserve our liberty."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Freedom, not government, has
allowed Americans to achieve unmatched prosperity. By limiting government and
relying on individual initiative, the United States has created a better
society for all. Hayek's "Road to Serfdom," however, reminds us that
freedom is a privilege that must always be safeguarded, not only from external
forces, but also from ourselves. Freedom is too precious to be taken for
granted.</span><span style="background-color: #99a0a8;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">What
makes countries end up in persistent and permanent poverty? Why is Mexico much
poorer than the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">United States</span></a><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">? Why is Latin America so fundamentally different
to North America? How is it possible that an average American is 40 times
richer than an average Sierra Leonean? Is it climate, geography, culture, or
could it be the ignorance of domestic leaders? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">Acemoglu and Robinson suggest
it’s none of these – rather, the real reason behind the poverty trap and
significant between-nation differences lies in the role of political and
economic institutions. Politics and the formation of political institutions
take centre stage in their book, which formulates the thesis that only within
an inclusive political system is it possible for nations to achieve prosperity.
The </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">opposite scenario</span></a><span style="color: #1d1d1d;"> will occur under extractive political institutions where
wealth will be accumulated within a narrow ruling elite which will aim to
preserve its power thus sentencing a nation to persistent poverty.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In the very beginning of the book the
authors hint to the reader how it will be organized – through a series of
historical case studies upon which they illustrate their theory of institutional
change and the consequential success or failure of nations. It starts with the
example of Nogales, a city on the US-Mexican border, which is split in half by
a fence. One city, in the same geographical position, characterized by the same
cultural upbringings, same population, same diseases, but one part three times
richer, much healthier, safer, and with higher living standards. The crucial
difference is the very border separating the two parts of the city depicting
the different institutional settings within them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">The authors make a strong claim that
this great divergence on a localized level had its roots in the very start of
colonization of North and South America. As the Spaniards came to the Aztec,
Mayan and Inca empires </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">they had a single aim</span></a><span style="color: #1d1d1d;"> of conquering the indigenous
population and extracting their wealth. By founding their settlements the
colonizers designed a system that would coerce the indigenous people to work
for them and extract resources while enriching only the small ruling Spanish elite.
This made the Spanish Crown quite rich at the time, as massive amounts of gold
and other resources flooded into the country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The colonization strategy of the English
was the same as of the Spaniards – extract the resources and force the
indigenous population to work for the colonial elite, which would, along with
the Crown, obtain maximum benefits from it. This strategy worked well in India
and Africa, but it failed in North America. First of all, they were late. North
America was less attractive and much scarcer in gold than South America. In
addition, the Native Americans put up far greater resistance and more
importantly didn’t allow themselves to become enslaved and forced into manual
labour for the newcomers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">It was up to the settlers to work themselves. At
first they were coerced into working by the colony’s rulers but this </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">strategy failed</span></a><span style="color: #1d1d1d;"> due to a range of possibilities for the coerced to escape to the
Indians. As a result, the colony needed to create different institutions to
create incentives for the settlers. With more personal freedom came demands for
more political freedom. In fact, the authors claim that the historical prelude
to the monumental 1774 US Constitution and the colonists’ fight for liberty was
the formation of the General Assembly in colonial Jamestown in 1619.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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differences manifested through the limitation of political power, democratic
principles, and economic incentives that paved the different development paths
of US and Mexico, generating the crucial difference between the two parts of
the city of Nogales.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">An intriguing case study approach
analyzed through the lens of institutional formation is the framework used
throughout </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">the book</span></a><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">. The emphasis is on how inclusive political institutions
can lead to inclusive economic institutions which will lay the foundations of
wealth creation and sustainable growth. The combination of inclusive political
and economic institutions shapes the incentives needed for a society to
prosper. If people have their wealth expropriated, they will lack the
incentives to create or sustain it. They will fail to innovate and fail to
achieve progress. People need an initial set of institutions to reduce
uncertainty and maintain stability.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The two examples exists side-by-side</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This initial set of inclusive economic
institutions includes secure property rights, rule of law, public services and
freedom to contract. The state is relied upon to provide all of these. It is
the role of the state to impose law and order, enforce contracts and prevent
theft and fraud. When the state fails to provide such a set of institutions it
becomes extractive, where its main objective is to satisfy a small powerful
elite (whether the ruler of the country, a set of rulers or prevalent interest
groups).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">Acemoglu and Robinson formulate their
central hypothesis around the fact that a strong set of economic institutions
which will guide incentives towards creating wealth can only be achieved
through more political freedom. </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Political inclusiveness</span></a><span style="color: #1d1d1d;"> and the distribution of
political power within a society are the key elements that will determine the
success or the failure of nations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The outcome of this insightful thesis
originating from the works of Adam Smith can often depend on random historical
events. They refer to these as the critical junctures of history that exploited
the initial small institutional differences and led to diverging development
paths of nations. One interesting example of a critical juncture that probably
contributed to the divergence between Western and Eastern Europe was the
bubonic plague, better known as the Black Death, in the 14th century. Another
example is the aforementioned different colonization pattern in many countries,
the most notable one being between North and South America.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">In their pursuit of an explanation for
the role of politics in development, the authors touch upon other dominant
theories that have tried to explain poor growth and under-development. They
stress three approaches: (1) the geographical position of the country
(countries in the sub-tropical area), which blames exposure to rough climate,
barren land and tropical diseases; (2) the cultural attribute, where the
population is to be blamed for not being hard-working (less productive) due to
their ethical, religious or cultural boundaries (a famous example here is Max
Weber’s Protestant ethic argument); and (3) the ignorance of the country’s
ruling elites, implying that if they had better </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">economic advice</span></a><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">, they would be
able to emerge from poverty. They also touch upon the dual economy paradigm that
blamed African underdevelopment on the co-existence of two sectors within an
economy between which social mobility was almost impossible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">Each of these arguments is found faulty
by the authors. The rule of a narrow elite that </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">organizes the society</span></a><span style="color: #1d1d1d;"> for its
own rent-extracting interest is a common trajectory every nation followed on
its road to poverty. The differences between the two parts of Nogales, two
Koreas, or East and West Germany cannot be explained by geography, culture,
diseases or ignorance – it could only be explained by a different set of
political institutions that resulted in different economic outcomes. As for the
African dual economy paradigm, the dual economy was artificially created by the
ruling (white) elite that maintained extractive political institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">The problem isn’t that poor nations
remain poor because of outside (or inside) exploitation, economic ignorance or
laziness of the population. It lies in the role of politics, and how the ruling
</span><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">elite will organize the country</span></a>’s</span><span style="color: #1d1d1d;"> political and economic institutions. If
political institutions are organized as extractive and concentrated in the
hands of a narrow elite, then economic institutions will only serve the purpose
of the ruling elites extracting the maximum wealth for themselves. If they are
organized as inclusive, power being dispersed among the many rather than
concentrated among the few, then this institutional environment will create
incentives of inclusive economic institutions, where innovation and creative
destruction will ensure the creation of sustainable economic growth and
development. Becoming a rich nation necessitates the overthrow of the ruling
elites and the distribution of power and political rights evenly within a
society. The government has to become accountable and responsive to its people,
who can then use this security and stability to advance on the economic
opportunities available to them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">However, the authors do admit that
growth can be achieved within a set of extractive political institutions. The
elites can simply reallocate resources into temporary highly productive
activities under their control (e.g. from agriculture to industry). But the
problem is that this growth is unsustainable in the long run. When the economy
runs out of steam, so will </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">r</span><span style="color: red;">apid growth</span></a><span style="color: #1d1d1d;"> and the country will first be exposed
to an economic and ultimately to a political crisis. The example of the rapid
growth of Soviet Russia illustrates this point. It wasn’t driven by innovation,
but state control and when the foundations for growth were exhausted, nothing
came to replace it. The authors predict the same thing happening to China. Even
though China is different than Soviet Russia, as it deploys some inclusive
economic institutions, the political elites still constrain creative destruction.
They mention the example of a Chinese entrepreneur who wanted to compete with
big, inefficient state-owned steel companies and ended up in prison as a
result. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">The Chinese </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">anti-entrepreneurship</span></a><span style="color: #1d1d1d;"> climate, censorship of the media, and
technological growth based on adoption of technologies rather than innovation
are all signals of an extractive political system in which growth is not
sustainable. China can overcome this and reach sustainable growth if it manages
to undergo a political reform that will introduce more individual and political
freedom. Until then, they are destined to repeat the Soviet scenario.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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storyline comprising of a multitude of vivid historical examples that support
the central thesis of the authors. After identifying the main framework of the
analysis in the first four chapters, it takes the reader on a journey through
history featuring a number of famous historical and more recent stories of
success and failure. This gives the reader an opportunity to see how politics
can indeed play an important part in the development of a society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">We see the same historical pattern
reoccurring in Venice and Ancient Rome, in Ethiopia and Mayan city-states, in
Soviet Russia and Congo, in 18th century Spain, absolutist Austro-Hungary or
tsarist Russia. The common characteristic that led them to failure was the
extractiveness of their political institutions. Even if they did briefly
experience rapid growth (such as the absolutist monarchies or Soviet Russia),
this growth was temporary and unsustainable, unless a path towards
inclusiveness followed. When Ancient Rome, Venice and the Mayan city-states had
even partially inclusive institutions that offered the proper incentives for
growth, they managed to experience it. However, when they switched to
authoritarianism and</span><span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">usurpation of power</span></a></span><span style="color: #1d1d1d;"> by the elites, conflicts emerged and the
downfall of their societies began. Inclusiveness was replaced by extractiveness
and consequently development was reversed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In England, something different
happened. Whilst in other countries repression was the dominant type of social
order, in England the demand for more property rights and a greater political
voice set the stage for sustained growth and prosperity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Creative destruction and technological
innovation made people richer, led to a new distribution of wealth, and more
importantly new distribution of power in the society. The elites, afraid of
losing their privileges, opposed this process. They felt threatened and formed
barriers to innovation. But in England, through political conflict, the rising
wealth of merchants and manufactures was able to overcome this opposition and
constrain the power of the sovereign, initiating the beginning of a new
historical era.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This is precisely why the Industrial
Revolution started in England, not anywhere else in the World. The Industrial
Revolution developed on the trails of the Glorious Revolution. It was the
importance of a broad coalition representing the people that succeeded. If
there had not been such a broad coalition, one elite would have simply
overtaken the other and continued with extractive institutions (as happened
briefly during the dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell). Irreversible political
change and the switch to inclusiveness transformed the economic incentives in
the society and created enormous wealth and prosperity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">But not all countries followed this
rapid development and not all countries embraced the benefits of the Industrial
Revolution, some even for a long time. It is due to these defining moments of
history (critical junctures) where the authors explain why all those countries
that developed on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire tend to be relatively
impoverished (provided that they are not oil exporters). </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">The Ottoman Empire</span></a><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">,
instead of embracing change, felt threatened by it and sentenced its minions to
another 200 years of extraction and poverty. The opposition to the elites in
the Ottoman Empire never grew as strong as it did in England, which is why
inclusive institutions never developed there. The same is true for a multitude
of countries at the time, including Spain, Austro/Hungary, Russia or China.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Wherever those with political power felt
threatened by technology and innovation, they prevented it, and by doing so
they effectively prevented wealth creation and prosperity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">The summing-up of their analysis is
through explaining the vicious and the virtuous cycles of prosperity. Whenever
inclusive institutions are present, the virtuous cycle will create positive
feedback loops that will prevent the elites overcoming them. It will make sure
that inclusive institutions expand and become persistent. Similarly, in the
case of extractive institutions vicious cycles will generate </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">negative feedback</span></a><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">
loops that will prevent progress.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In order for the virtuous cycle to work
the first precondition is to have pluralism, which will constitute the rule of
law and lead to more inclusive economic institutions. Inclusive economic
institutions will remove the need for extraction since those in power will gain
little but lose a lot if engaged in a repression and constraining democracy.
Finally, they also recognize the importance of free media to provide
information on threats against inclusive institutions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">The virtuous cycle explains how the
reforms of the political system in England or the US became irreversible, since
those in power understood that any possible deviation would endanger their own
position. The examples of British consolidation and its slow, contingent path
to democracy in which the people gradually demanded and gradually received more
rights; or the trust-busting in the US in the beginning of the 20th century; or
the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">failed attempts</span></a><span style="color: #1d1d1d;"> of President Roosevelt to limit the power of the US Supreme
Court illustrate this point.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Pluralism and the rule of law were
critical conditions leading to the limits of political power that made the
virtuous cycle possible in the US and Britain. And this was precisely why
Fujimori’s Peru, Chavez’s Venezuela or Peron’s Argentina failed. They failed to
create institutions to limit political power. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">These systems developed
extractive institutions and generated a vicious cycle in which the ruling elite
had no constraints on power and had great incentives for expropriation and
wealth extraction. Even if this elite were to be </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">overthrown</span></a><span style="color: #1d1d1d;"> by a revolution,
the “iron law of oligarchy” implied that a new elite would simple replace the
old one and continue in its extraction, sometimes even worse than under the old
elite. This is why the authors are somewhat sceptical of the ability of the
Arab Spring to produce the necessary shift towards inclusiveness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Once again the authors convince the
reader in the mechanism of the negative feedback loop and the iron law of
oligarchy through a multitude of cases ranging from Sierra Leone, Guatemala,
Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Uzbekistan, Columbia, Argentina, Egypt and even slavery in
the US South. However, the vicious cycle in the US South was easier to break
due to the existence of inclusive institutions on the federal level. The Civil
Rights Movement generated equality in the South and paved the way for economic
growth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">Another good example of “breaking the
mould” is Botswana, where the natural resource course didn’t lead to extraction
from colonists or usurpation of power over who gets to </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">control resource</span></a><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">
extraction and enrich upon it. They have managed to seize their critical
juncture – postcolonial independence – and used it to develop inclusive
institutions.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">The authors refrain from trying to write
a recipe for development since there is no such thing. Their theory based on
critical junctures and specific historical paths loses predictive power since it
is hard to tell which countries could break the mould anytime soon. The theory
can say which countries are likely to stay poor for a long time but it cannot
really answer the question on what will follow after events like the Arab
Spring. A range of factors will decide whether the Arab countries undergo a
gradual path towards inclusiveness or whether the iron rule of </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">oligarchy prevails</span></a><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Finally, prosperity cannot be engineered
by international institutions with a recipe for reform or foreign aid; it has to
come from empowerment to the people and their inclusiveness in the political
process. Once a broad coalition is formed this will enable the inclusive
institutions to persist and the political reforms to become irreversible. One
can conclude that based on this approach, inclusive economic and political
institutions develop spontaneously, while extractive institutions are imposed
by outside coercion. The road to prosperity is thus always achieved through
more political, individual and economic freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #1d1d1d; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The only part the authors did not cover
in more detail is what happens after political and economic inclusiveness are
attained, when certain elites or organized interest groups try to obtain
political support to serve their own self-interest. An answer from the book
would probably be that this scenario falls out of the general definition of
inclusive political institutions, where the media is (partially) captured and
where narrow self-interests can curtail the system in order to extract certain
benefit. It is here that their framework could be extended, but the already
large scope and size of the book prevent the authors from engaging so deeply
into the subject.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">The framework used in the book is based
on a rigorous fifteen-year research process conducted by the authors and
examined previously in some of their earlier, more </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307719219/ref=as_li_qf_br_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307719219&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20%22%3EWhy%20Nations%20Fail:%20The%20Origins%20of%20Power,%20Prosperity,%20and%20Poverty%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=racerela-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0307719219%22%20width=%221%22%20height=%221%22%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22%22%20style=%22border:none%20!important;%20margin:0px%20!important;%22%20/%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">analytical work</span></a><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">. Regular
readers of their work will recognize many of the ideas on the consolidation of
democracies and political transitions coming from their 2006 book, Origins of
Dictatorships and Democracy, along with many academic articles. Why Nations
Fail builds on these findings thus providing the crowning achievement in their
political economy theory. It is a recommended read to all professions and
anyone interested in finding out why some nations are rich while others are
poor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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rigour in supporting the theory and proving the causality of certain events and
their further manifestation, such virtues were probably not the authors’
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proofs behind certain historical events, I recommend their earlier work in
which the analytical framework can be thoroughly analyzed. </span></span></span><br />
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different goals. Its emphasis on historical case studies to make it more interesting
to the general reader succeeds in transferring the idea to all those outside
the economic and political science profession. They have managed to summarize
their theory and make the case for institutional change, while presenting it in
an understandable, yet brilliant way for all those who are not economists. That
alone marks the book as a success. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">In his giant<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">New York Times</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> bestseller, </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">America Alone:
The End of the World as We Know It</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">, Mark Steyn
<a href="http://amzn.to/U50HS2" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">predicted collapse</span></a> for the rest of the Western World. Now, he adds, America has
caught up with Europe on the great rush to self-destruction.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">It’s not just our looming financial collapse; it’s
not just a culture that seems on a fast track to perdition, full of hapless,
indulgent, childish people who think government has the answer for every
problem; it’s not just <a href="http://amzn.to/U50HS2" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">America’s potential </span></a>eclipse as a world power because of
the drunken sailor policymaking in Washington—no, it’s all this and more that
spells one word for America: Armageddon.</span><br />
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">What will a world without American leadership look
like? It won’t be pretty—not for you and not for your children. America’s
decline won’t be gradual, like an aging Europe sipping espresso at a café until
extinction (and the odd Greek or Islamist riot). <a href="http://amzn.to/U50HS2" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">No, America</span></a>’s decline will be
a wrenching affair marked by violence and possibly secession.</span><br />
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">With his trademark wit, Steyn delivers the
depressing news with raw and unblinking honesty—but also with the touch of vaudeville
stand-up and soft shoe that makes him the most entertaining, yet profound,
columnist on the planet. And as an immigrant with nowhere else to go, he offers
his own prescription for winning <a href="http://amzn.to/U50HS2" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">America</span> </a>back from the feckless and arrogant
liberal establishment that has done its level best to suffocate the world’s
last best hope in a miasma of debt, <a href="http://amzn.to/U50HS2" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">decay</span></a>, and debility. You will not read a
more important—or more alarming, or even funnier—book all year than<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://amzn.to/U50HS2" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">After America</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span>Bobby Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189102534824566345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4303507929825752441.post-73676690113835348342012-11-27T09:47:00.002-08:002012-11-27T09:47:54.480-08:00The Communist <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In his
memoir, Barack Obama omits the full name of his mentor, simply calling him
“Frank.” Now, the truth is out: Never has a figure as deeply troubling and
controversial as Frank Marshall Davis had such an impact on the development of
an American president.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Although other radical influences on Obama, from Jeremiah Wright
to Bill Ayers, have been scrutinized, the public knows little about Davis, a
card-carrying member of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451698097/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1451698097&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">the Communist</span></a> Party USA, cited by the Associated Press
as an “important influence” on Obama, one whom he “looked to” not merely for
“advice on living” but as a “father” figure.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 21px;">While the Left has willingly dismissed Davis (with good reason), here are the indisputable, eye-opening facts: Frank Marshall Davis was a pro-Soviet, pro–Red China communist. His Communist Party USA card number, revealed in FBI files, was CP #47544. He was a prototype of the loyal Soviet patriot, so radical that the FBI placed him on the federal government’s Security Index. In the early 1950s, Davis opposed U.S. attempts to slow Stalin and Mao. He favored Red Army takeovers of Central and Eastern Europe, and communist control in Korea and Vietnam. Dutifully serving the cause, he edited and wrote for communist newspapers in both Chicago and Honolulu, courting contributors who were Soviet agents. In the 1970s, amid this dangerous political theater, Frank Marshall Davis came into Barack Obama’s life.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Aided by access to explosive declassified FBI files, Soviet
archives, and Davis’s original newspaper columns, Paul Kengor explores how
Obama sought out Davis and how Davis found in Obama an impressionable young
man, one susceptible to Davis’s worldview that opposed American policy and
traditional values while praising communist regimes. Kengor sees remnants of
this worldview in Obama’s early life and even, ultimately, his presidency.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Kengor charts with definitive accuracy the progression of Davis’s
communist ideas from Chicago to Hawaii. He explores how certain elements of the
Obama administration’s agenda reflect Davis’s columns advocating wealth
redistribution, government stimulus for “public works projects,”
taxpayer-funding of universal health care, and nationalizing General Motors.
Davis’s writings excoriated the “tentacles of big business,” blasted Wall
Street and “greedy” millionaires, lambasted GOP tax cuts that “spare the rich,”
attacked “excess profits” and oil companies, and perceived the Catholic Church
as an obstacle to his vision for the state—all the while echoing Davis’s often
repeated mantra for transformational and fundamental “change.”<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">And yet,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451698097/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1451698097&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">The Communist</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">is not unsympathetic to Davis, revealing him as something of a
victim, an African- American who suffered devastating racial persecution in the
Jim Crow era, steering this justly angered young man on a misguided political
track. That Davis supported violent and heartless communist regimes over his
own country is impossible to defend. That he was a source of inspiration to
President Barack Obama is impossible to ignore.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Is Obama working to fulfill the dreams of Frank Marshall Davis?
That question has been impossible to answer, since Davis’s writings and
relationship with Obama have either been deliberately obscured or dismissed as
irrelevant. With Paul Kengor’s<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451698097/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1451698097&linkCode=as2&tag=racerela-20" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">The Communist</span></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>Americans can
finally weigh the evidence and decide for themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There were hundreds of thousands of American communists like Frank
who agitated throughout the twentieth century. They chose the wrong side of
history, a horrendously bloody side that left a wake of more than 100 million corpses
from the streets of the Bolshevik Revolution to the base of the Berlin
Wall—double the combined dead of the century’s two world wars. And they never
apologized. Quite the contrary, they cursed their accusers for daring to charge
(correctly) that they were communists whose ideology threatened the American
way and the greater world and all of humanity. They took their denials to the
grave, and still today their liberal/progressive dupes continue to conceal
their crimes and curse their accusers for them. We need hundreds and thousands
of more books on American communists like Frank, so we can finally start to get
this history right— and, more so, learn its vital lessons. To fail to do so is
a great historical injustice.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We especially need to flesh out these lessons, which are morality
tales in the truest sense of the word, when we find the rarest case of a man
like “Frank” managing to influence someone as influential as the current
president of the United States of America—the leader of the free world and
driver of the mightiest political/economic engine in history. Such figures
cannot be ignored.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The people who influence our presidents matter.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span>Bobby Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13189102534824566345noreply@blogger.com1