Ron Paul Discusses Geithner On Bloomberg TV, 1/21/2009
“Look for the dollar crisis. It has to come. You just can’t create trillions of dollars out of thin air for every bailout and expect the dollar to maintain its value.” [my transcription]
January 22, 2009
January 21, 2009
Biden Tells Roberts: You Will Rule On Human Microchipping
During the the confirmation hearings for John Roberts Jr., George W. Bush’s nominee for Supreme Court chief justice, Roberts was questioned by Senator Joseph R. Biden on whether he would rule against a mandatory implantable microchip to track American citizens.
Alex Jones, InfoWarrior: Concerned
Info-Warrior
My screenshot of Alex in the new studio, today, pausing for a station-break during his point-by-point analyisis of Obama’s inaugural speech — seeing what’s coming and not liking it.
January 20, 2009
Can Alaska Secede If America Ceases to Be the ‘Land of the Free’?
From: Juneau Empire [the article is not dated; though, this is our capitol's main newspaper]
Parnell trashes petition for Alaska’s independence
By Gregg Erickson
The union of Alaska with the United States is again safe, thanks to the vigilance of Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell and the Alaska Supreme Court. Earlier this month Parnell refused to certify an initiative petition that would have asked Alaska voters whether the state should “seek changes in existing law and constitutional provisions to authorize … independence from the United States.”
Certification would have meant the group could try to gather the roughly 35,000 signatures needed to get their proposition on the ballot. I think they’d have about zero chance of that; but according to Parnell, seeking changes in the U.S. and Alaska constitutions to allow independence is itself unconstitutional, and therefore something that Alaskans can’t be allowed to vote on, or even sign up for.
The petition Parnell trashed was submitted by Scott Kohlhass and 242 others, including Lynette Clark, the chair of the Alaska Independence Party and a disciple of the late Alaska independence advocate Joe Vogler. …
In 2003 Parnell’s predecessor, Loren Leman, threw out a similar petition. Kohlhass sued, taking his case to the Alaska Supreme Court. The justices wrapped themselves in Old Glory before coming down on Kohlhass like a Mt. Roberts avalanche….
The logic of the court’s opinion goes like this: Kohlhass wants Alaska independence; independence is the same as secession, which is unconstitutional; therefore the Kohlhass initiative is unconstitutional. The full opinion uses the words “secede” and “secession” 26 times; read it yourself on the web at www.state.ak.us/courts/ops/sp-6087.pdf.
The hole in the court’s logic is that the initiative does not seek secession; indeed, the proposition Kohlhass wishes to gather signatures for never uses that word. Secession is a unilateral act, like South Carolina’s 1860 withdrawal from the Union. What Kohlhass and his associates seek is a constitutional change, so Alaska – with the consent of the people of Alaska and the U.S. – can become independent.
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Chuck Baldwin: Breakup Of U.S. Is Inevitable — State secession is the last best option
January 19, 2009
Michael Franti and Spearhead: Hey World (Don’t Give Up)
Tell me why on the corner
all the kids that used to come to run here,
load their guns here
And tell me why it’s okay
to kill in the name of the gods we pray
Tell me who said it’s okay
to die in the name of the lies we say
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Constitutional eligibility for Obama to be President is being contested on three fronts. WND 2009 Jan 19 (Cached)
California Comptroller announces a stop to payments of tax refunds and welfare checks because state has run out of money. LATimes 2009 Jan 17 (Cached)
US: Unusually frigid weather grips Eastern states, expected to linger. Global warming, they say? weather.com 2009 Jan 16 (Cached)
Bank of America asks for additional billions of taxpayers’ money to purchase Merrill Lynch. Wait! If the politicians would give those billions to you and me, maybe WE can purchase Merrill Lynch. McClatchy 2009 Jan 15 (Cached)
US: Home foreclosures soar 81% in 2008. 2% of all households now involved – and numbers continue to increase. Reuters 2009 Jan 15 (Cached)
US: Black Angus, with 69 restaurants in 7 states, files for bankruptcy. Says diners are staying home. Bloomberg 2009 Jan 15 (Cached)
California faces insolvency within 3 weeks.
Reuters 2009 Jan 15 (Cached)
Ford, with plants in Mexico, Germany, and Spain, now begins producing cars in China. Sure nice of American politicians to bail out the company.
Raw Story 2009 Jan 15 (Cached)
US: Big Pharma tops list of industries lobbying Congress for legislative favors. Here is a list of the next nine. Mercola 2009 Jan 15 (Cached)
US: Supreme Court rules that evidence obtained illegally can be used in court if police claim they didn’t know they broke the law. How often do police admit breaking the law on purpose? The police state grows. Yahoo 2009 Jan 14 (Cached)
Gaza: Over 1000 killed and 4500 injured in first 19 days of Israeli assault. More than a third are children and women. Another third are non-combatant men. 13 Israelis have been killed from Hamas rockets.
BBC 2009 Jan 14 (Cached)
US: Vice Pres Cheney, when asked if loss of 4500 American lives in Iraq and over 100,000 Iraqi lives was worth it, he replied: “I think so.” Why? For the greater good of the greater number.
Think Progress 2009 Jan 14 (Cached)
US: Gannett, nation’s largest newspaper publisher, will lay off thousands of employees for one week in effort to stave off bankruptcy.
NYTimes 2009 Jan 14 (Cached)
Chicago has more continuous snowfall since records began in 1884. Global warming, no doubt.
Suburban Life 2009 Jan 14 (Cached)
Flint, Michigan temperature plummets to 19 below zero, lowest in 95 years. More global warming.
mlive 2009 Jan 14 (Cached)
US: Panel of state attorneys-general find that sexual solicitation of children over Internet is exaggerated in media and by politicians. That’s because fear of child abuse leads people to applaud increased government control over Internet. News Observer 2009 Jan 14 (Cached)
Federal Reserve Chief Bernanke says U.S. financial crisis worse than Japan’s “lost decade” but will copy Japan’s playbook even though it didn’t work.
GWBlog 2009 Jan 13 (Cached)
China: Suicide now the major cause of death among women in rural areas – which is the part of China not generally seen by tourists. Epoch Times 2009 Jan 12 (Cached)
US: Smithsonian Institute corrects label next to portrait of George Bush that erroneously linked 9/11 to the war in the Middle East. Many Americans still have it wrong. LATimes 2009 Jan 12 (Cached)
US: Real jobless rate now highest since end of WWII. Guardian Posted 2009 Jan 10 (Cached)
China’s stock market plunged more than 65% in 2008. Epoch Times Posted 2009 Jan 10 (Cached)
Ford, with plants in Mexico, Germany, and Spain, now begins producing cars in China. Sure nice of American politicians to bail out the company.
Raw Story 2009 Jan 15 (Cached)
US: Big Pharma tops list of industries lobbying Congress for legislative favors. Here is a list of the next nine. Mercola 2009 Jan 15 (Cached)
US: Supreme Court rules that evidence obtained illegally can be used in court if police claim they didn’t know they broke the law. How often do police admit breaking the law on purpose? The police state grows. Yahoo 2009 Jan 14 (Cached)
January 17, 2009
Kucinich: WE ACCEPT the Slaughter of the Innocent BECAUSE WE’VE ALREADY Slaughtered the Innocent
No, I’m not talking about abortion (by how I worded this title). That was bad enough—sick enough!
We’ve moved to the next level, risen to the next disgrace, ascended to a far worse sickness—justifying, thinking, saying this is okay. And this is from the same people who cry “abortion is murder!”
Now we kill people who think deeply, who talk, who run and play—who, unlike the unborn, are accountable as to where they’ll spend eternity.
Even one homicide, one remote-controlled, joystick killing in the name of ‘self-defense,’ is too many—and we watch our President’s smugness as he leaves office. What a disgrace—laughing—having led US into impending doom.
What have we become—so high on our horse? Instead of reaching out to our ‘enemies,’ admitting the many ways we have been wrong, how we’ve bullied and spread filth around the world, we just kill them. We drive them away—into hating US.
And “America the Dysfunctional,” the big bully on the block, now sanctions and enables others to do likewise—leading by example.
America is sick, her heart has grown cold, having succumbed to the delusion The Moody Blues proclaimed in 1967:
Cold hearted orb
That rules the night
Removes the colours
From our sight
Red is gray and
Yellow white
But we decide
Which is right
And
Which is an Illusion
Our end is near, because Dennis’ words go unheard, speaking to an empty House, while America amuses herself to death.
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From: Congressman Dennis Kucinich
Washington, Jan 15 -
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza on the House Floor:
“The attack on the United Nations headquarters in Gaza is further proof that a post-legal era in world affairs has taken shape; where law and moral principles are irrelevant, where might makes right, where retribution and vengeance, even against innocent children, fails to shake us from moral lethargy or political paralysis.
“Collective punishment, disproportionate use of force, using U.S. planes, helicopters and munitions to attack a wounded, starved and thirsty civilian population of mostly children trapped in a box called Gaza has become acceptable, perhaps because we have already accepted the deaths of over one million innocent civilians in Iraq in a war based on lies.
“There is a way out. We must ask those who were given our armaments for defense to stop the aggression, end the blockade, end the occupation, and reconnect with the high sentiments that rallied their own suffering, wounded people to nationhood generations ago. When we recognize the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, when we come to grips with the reality of suffering on both sides, we may yet find a way to save ourselves.
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