Bush Bailout Speech Just Like Iraq Speech!!!

I couldn't find the handy clipnote link to the video, but if you go to the link it should get you to it.

clipped from www.huffingtonpost.com Jon Stewart finds an eerie similarity between President Bush's big bailout speech and his Iraq invasion speech five years ago. "Those who do not study the past get an exciting opportunity to repeat it." Watch:

Terrorist Attack on American Soil

Would it surprise anyone that the republicans are behind this? That war machine doesn't know where or how to stop. They inflict false fear everywhere and now this. This is really bugging me.

This article is originally entitled...
Muslim Children Gassed at Dayton Mosque After "Obsession" DVD Hits Ohio.

If you like the movie Obsession, check out The Power of Nightmares.

Where did the fear that perpetrated this crime come from? Put down the remote and step away from the TV.

While pastors are motivating their flocks to come back to church next week they ought to throw in a message on 1 John 2:6

"the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked."

clipped from www.dailykos.com "She told me that the gas was sprayed into the room where the babies and children were being kept while their mothers prayed together their Ramadan prayers. Panicked mothers ran for their babies, crying for their children so they could flee from the gas that was burning their eyes and throats and lungs. She grabbed her youngest in her arms and grabbed the hand of her other daughter, moving with the others to exit the building and the irritating substance there. "The paramedic said the young one was in shock, and gave her oxygen to help her breathe. The child couldn't stop sobbing. "This didn't happen in some far away place -- but right here in Dayton, and to my friends. Many of the Iraqi refugees were praying together at the Mosque Friday evening. People that I know and love. "She tells me that her daughters slept with her last night, the little one in her arms and sobbing throughout the night. She tells me she is afraid nothing less than terrorism, American style

Denver Cops Mock DNC Protesters

clipped from rawstory.com Denver's police union is facing criticism for printing a commemorative T-shirt that makes light of the use of violence by police, particularly in the wake of 154 arrests during the week of Democratic National Convention this past August. The Denver Police Department Operations Manual includes a Law Enforcement Code of Ethics, which begins, 'As a Law Enforcement Officer, my fundamental duty is to serve mankind, to safeguard lives and property, to protect the innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or intimidation, and the peaceful against violence or disorder; and to respect the Constitutional rights of all men to liberty, equality and justice.' The creation of this t-shirt makes a mockery of that statement." Detective Nick Rogers of the Police Protective Association said that the union predicts sales of about 2,000 shirts in addition to the ones given free to Denver police officers, and also told KMGH that he hadn't received any complaints about the shirt. this link.

Put $700 billion in the bag and no one gets hurt

clipped from www.informationclearinghouse.info The situation reminds me of a portion of the Douglas Adams novel "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy," in which the leaders of the planet Golgafrincham decided to get rid of the least useful third of their population. This was accomplished by making up a story about a giant space goat coming to eat their planet and convincing all of the people they wanted to get rid of to board Ark-B, the first of three giant spaceships that would take them all to a new planet. The other two-thirds of the population, of course, did not follow. The way that Paulson and Bernanke have described the problem, I cannot shake the feeling that my wife, daughter and I are being told to board Ark-B. Tell me again what the problem is that is so severe that it justifies taking $2,000 from every man, woman and child in the country? I am insulted that they think they can scare the money out of me without offering a good explanation.

CEO pay: What those involved in the financial meltdown made

Amazing.

"If George W. Bush, John McCain, or Barack Obama had any honesty and integrity, they would approach the current banking malady in much the same way that President Andrew Jackson did. In discussing the Bank Renewal bill with a delegation of bankers in 1832, Jackson said, "Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time, and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.""
~ Chuck Baldwin, Constitution Party Presidential Candidate.

clipped from www.bizjournals.com As Congress considers a $700 billion bailout for Wall Street and the banking sector, there are calls to restrict the pay and severance packages for CEOs at investment houses, banks and mortgage lenders poised to be benefit from the plan put forward by U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. Executives from some of the major investment and commercial banks involved in the financial upheaval and bailout earned hefty paychecks last year, according to proxy statements outlining their salaries, bonuses and stock options: Lehman Brothers Chairman Goldman Sachs American International Group’s chief executive Morgan Stanley Chairman Merrill Lynch CEO JP Morgan Chase & Co. Chairman and CEO Fannie Mae CEO Wachovia Corp. Chairman Seattle-based Washington Mutual CEOs of large U.S. corporations averaged $10.8 million in total compensation in 2006, more than 364 times the pay of the average U.S. worker, according to the latest survey by United for a Fair Economy.

What is more dangerous than standing armies?

Read the article to find out what Andrew Jackson said when faced with the same thing we face today.

clipped from www.newswithviews.com Jefferson also believed that "banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." Daniel Webster warned, "Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money." Webster also said, "We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no, Sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors, and a ruined people." Our first and greatest President George Washington said, "Paper money has had the effect in your State [Rhode Island] that it ever will have, to ruin commerce--oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice."

Down with Republicans!

The Republican Party is quickly morphing into what every person hates. They get away with this stuff because they can. Watch the 60-minute video for a good overview. We are the only ones that can put pressure on such tactics to stop it from destroying us all.

This is just another example that shows why people need to get involved once again in helping America (SELF-government). With the Third Parties combining, now is the time for everyone on the sidelines to start jumping in and helping.

Learn more about that here...
www.thirdpartyticket.com

Spread the word!
That is about all you have to do.

clipped from www.donsiegelman.org " I think this will make Watergate look like child's  play" NOW IS THE TIME FOR MORE ACTION! Unless Congress votes to hold Rove in Contempt before it adjourns at the END of THIS MONTH (SEPTEMBER '08) all of our work will go out of the window! This is ultimately not about Republicans or Democrats, because when the already high price attached to the blood sport of politics and public service has been elevated to an individual’s complete destruction, a ruined career, and imprisonment, everyone loses. Gen. Wesley Clark: "I believe that Don Siegelman was not only a great Governor, but a great American. And I believe he was an honest man! And I believe that he has been unjustly confined!<more> " I would greatly appreciate any financial contribution you can make to my Legal Defense Fund"        Don Siegelman ....CONTACT CONGRESS before they adjorn!!!

IT’S THE DERIVATIVES, STUPID!

I do not normally yell, but
IT’S THE DERIVATIVES, STUPID!

I felt like clipping the whole article (it isn't very long, but longer than ClipNotes allows). It does a good job explaining what is going on and sets forth a possible solution.

"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education." —Thomas Jefferson

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." ~ James Madison

clipped from www.webofdebt.com Ellen Brown, September 18, 2008 www.webofdebt.com/articles/its_the_derivatives.php “I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.” – Sir Isaac Newton, after losing a fortune in the South Sea bubble Something extraordinary is going on with these government bailouts. The Fed is buying an insurance company? he Federal Reserve has the power to print the national money supply, but it is not actually a part of the U.S. government.  It is a private banking corporation owned by a consortium of private banks.  The banking industry just bought the world’s largest insurance company, and they used federal money to do it.  Yahoo Finance reported on September 17: The Anatomy of a Bubble Until recently, most people had never even heard of derivatives Basically, they are just bets.  You can “hedge your bet” that “The point everyone misses,” The Best Game in Town Desperate Measures for Desperate Times Time for a 21st Century New Deal? We need a public banking system

Open the Presidential Debates... or we will!

Sounds like real American government to me!

The internet is like the printing press was in the 1500s. It can bring much needed reformation and revolution like the press did back then. But we have to USE IT.

"A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about." ~ Douglas Noel Adams

clipped from www.thirdpartyticket.com In light of John McCain's attempts to stifle the presidential debates never before has the need for more debate participants been so clearly illustrated. When the debates are limited to two increasingly similar points of view we all suffer. Today, at a critical point in our nation's direction, third party candidates are standing against the bailout, while the media sanctioned candidates are standing for it. The American people deserve to have a debate on the largest economic decision of our generation. The ThirdPartyTicket.com debate is an important step in our efforts to take back the political process. Our message-- "Open the debates, or we will!" The Candidates Learn about all of the presidential candidates and compare their stances on the issues: Constitution Party Candidate: Chuck Baldwin Democratic Party Candidate: Barack Obama Green Party Candidate: Cynthia McKinney Independent Party Candidate: Ralph Nader Libertarian Party Candidate: Bob Barr Republican Party Candidate: John McCain

Bush’s Legacy Of Squandering Taxpayer Money

If you go to the site you will see a list for each category of mismanagement. Who would be surprised he unashamedly asks for another $700 billion.

clipped from thinkprogress.org Bush is demanding unprecedented control over billions of dollars — with no oversight. His history of mismanaging taxpayer dollars should make Americans skeptical of his buyout plan: IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION KATRINA DEFENSE CONTRACTS Given Bush’s history of gross fiscal mismanagement — including an unprecedented number of no-bid contracts and Bush’s resistance to closing fraud loopholes or increasing oversight of contracts — why should Americans trust another $700 billion to his care? Paul Krugman writes, “Let’s not be railroaded into accepting an enormously expensive plan that doesn’t seem to address the real problem.” Digg It!

Very Corrupt Administration at Work

We broke away from Britain for less in 1776. Read the Declaration of Independence and review the list of "repeated injuries and usurpations." Together they don't add up to this.

clipped from thinkprogress.org Today, the White House released a statement criticizing Congress’s potential plan to limit CEO compensation at the companies the federal government is bailing out, firmly standing against any “punitive measures”: President Bush also released another statement earlier today warning Congress against inserting any “unrelated provisions” — such as help for struggling homeowners — in the $700 billion Wall Street bailout. In 2007, Wall Street’s five biggest firms — Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley — paid a record $39 billion in bonuses to themselves. That’s $10 billion more than the $29 billion loan taxpayers are making to J.P. Morgan to save Bear Stearns. Those 2007 bonuses were paid even though the shareholders in those firms last year collectively lost about $74 billion in stock declines — their worst year since 2002. now costing each person in the United States $2,000.

Evangelical leader smacks McCain for lack of ‘principle’

Let the evangelicals divide and fracture; let the people be free to think on their own.

clipped from coloradoindependent.com Richard Cizik is one of the country’s most powerful and outspoken Christian evangelical leaders. He happens to be a Republican, and he has known the GOP’s presidential nominee for many years. “I thought John McCain was a principled person,” Cizik says. “But John McCain has backed off, not just on climate change but on torture and a sensible tax policy — in other words, he’s not the John McCain of 2000. … He seems to be waffling on issue after issue. “It’s not illogical for someone to conclude that John McCain is going to be more like George Bush than John McCain is going to be like John McCain in 2000.”

Ron Paul Weighs In On The Financial Catastrophe

To bad more people do not know more about the predictable character of Ron Paul as a statesman. He is more of a servant of the People and a defender of our Constitution than a politician. Who weird.

clipped from www.npr.org Listen Now [10 min 49 sec] add to playlist Tell Me More, September 23, 2008 · The conversation about the financial crisis, and the details about the proposed $700 billion bailout continues to stir strong opinions. Republican Congressman and former presidential candidate Ron Paul opposes the bailout plan.

Gingrich On Why Bailout Plan Is 'Just Wrong'

Someday I think all of Congress will be asked to step aside as those in power take over our country.

clipped from www.npr.org Listen Now [5 min 4 sec] add to playlist All Things Considered, September 22, 2008 · One prominent conservative urging Congress to step hard on the brakes in the $700 billion bailout plan is Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives. In Sunday's National Review online, Gingrich writes: "Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess." This $700 billion bailout plan, this potential 20-year mess that you're talking about, comes from a Republican administration, comes from your own party. What's happened to Republican faith in small government and free markets? Well, I think you have a Goldman Sachs chief of staff to the president and the Goldman Sachs secretary of the Treasury. And they convinced the president that the American people ought to send $700 billion to Wall Street, which I think is a very, very bad idea, and I would argue is a very un-Republican idea.

Iraq Today

Staggering!

clipped from www.projectcensored.org The mortality statistics cited in “Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month?” were based on another article suitable for Project Censored recognition, a scientific investigation of deaths caused by the war in Iraq. The original article, published in Lancet in 2006, received some dismissive coverage when it was released, and then disappeared from view as the mainstream media returned to reporting biased estimates that placed Iraqi casualties at about one-tenth the Lancet estimates. The effectiveness of the media blackout is vividly illustrated by an Associated Press poll conducted in February 2007, which asked a representative sample of US residents how many Iraqis had died as a result of the war. The average respondent thought the number was under 10,000, about 2 percent of the actual total at that time. By early 2008, the best estimate, based on extrapolations and replications of the Lancet study, was that 1.2 million Iraqis had died as a consequence of the war.

Top 25 Censored Stories

clipped from www.projectcensored.org #1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation # 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA # 3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business # 4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America? # 5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets # 6 The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act # 7 Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking # 8 Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly #9 Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify # 10 APA Complicit in CIA Torture # 11 El Salvador’s Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror # 12 Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind # 13 Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq # 14 Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste # 15 Worldwide Slavery # 16 Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights # 17 UN’s Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights # 18 Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers # 19 Indigenous Herders and Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction # 20 Marijuana Arrests Set New Record # 21 NATO Considers “First Strike” Nuclear Option

$700 Billion Bailout of Wall Street

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless." -- U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864 - (letter to Col. William F. Elkins) Ref: The Lincoln Encyclopedia, Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY)

Someone predicted this economic collapse A year ago and worked hard to do something about it. Who?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04B3Wl2qouw

We need to turn over some moneychanger tables like Jesus did. Jesus Cleanses the Temple - http://www.american-synergy.com/Learning/

clipped from www.democracynow.org It’s being described as the largest government intervention in private markets since the Great Depression. The Bush administration has asked Congress to swiftly approve a massive $700 billion package to rescue the crippled financial institutions on Wall Street. Some analysts say the final cost to taxpayers could top one trillion dollars. Over the weekend, the size of the proposed bailout grew as the Bush administration said foreign banks, including Barclays and UBS, should be eligible for the bailout. [includes rush transcript] >Share delicio.us digg facebook newsvine reddit slashdot stumbleupon Email to a friend Help Printer-friendly version Purchase DVD/CD LISTEN WATCH Real Video Stream Real Audio Stream MP3 Download More…

What's the REAL reason for 2nd Ammendment

This is an awesome statement she makes. It just goes to show you we need to FIRE those people who are not listening nor understand what she clearly points out.

clipped from video.google.com Texas state representative, Suzanna Gratia-Hupp, whose parents were killed by an insane gunman while her gun was out in the car, gives very moving and bold testimony about the REAL reason that the second amendment was designed to protect our God-given right to keep and bear arms.«

Pay No Attention to This Day

clipped from www.harrybrowne.org September 17 This day isn’t important. There are far more significant days in the year: •   Labor Day, when we pretend to care about other people’s jobs while frolicking at the beach. •   Election Day, when we pretend we’re making a difference by voting. You see, today is supposed to be Constitution Day. And no one really cares about the Constitution anymore. What It Was The Constitution was supposed to spell out what government can do and what it can’t do. The Transformation But by the end of the 1800s, too many Americans had lost their fear of government and politicians. And so government was transformed in the public mind from a necessary-but-dangerous evil into "the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else," as Frédéric Bastiat described it. Where Do We Go from Here? If the American people are to learn the importance of limited, Constitutional government, we have to teach them ourselves.