John Adams on the Bailout

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John Adams Quote Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.
The first public act of Jesus' ministry was the miracle of changing water to wine. The second public act of Jesus was a miracle too; He dislodged the moneychangers from religion (temple). Watch Him in do it! Now do you see what we are up against and what we will probably have to do to remove today's moneychangers from controlling our world? Watch Iceland lead the way.

Regulating Nano Silver as a "Pesticide"

clipped from salsa.democracyinaction.org Deadline for Public Comments: Extended to March 20, 2009 We are also very concerned that a natural material, silver, that has been used for thousands of years to protect people from pathogens is about to be regulated out of availability. Even though silverware and silver plate has been used with food for millennia, with knowledge that the substance helped preserve food from harm, the EPA stands ready to ban or severely restrict more modern applications of silver to countertops and food containers, for example. The source of this "citizens petition" is suspect as being part of the Big Pharma agenda which seeks to ban or restrict all natural competitors to drugs and toxic industrial products. pandemic threats are reduced through safe, natural home remedies; silver solutions have been used for centuries by knowledgeable individuals. At the same time, pharmaceutical and medical control and profits are reduced. ask everyone to join us in telling the EPA to leave nano silver alone Learn More

"Right to Revolution" in NH Constitution Article 10

"The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind."

clipped from www.nh.gov June 2, 1784 [Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

<1% of Iceland Topple Tyrants - Videos

a short video report and a moving music video.

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<1% of Iceland Topple Tyrants - Videos

a short video report and a moving music video.

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Iceland Revolution Succeeding

I love the sound of it, don't you?

clipped from www.breakthematrix.com New lessons from Iceland are bursting forth every day. Those people in Reykjavik really showed us how to throw out a criminal regime, and all across Europe-- France, Britain, Spain, Portugal, Greece (plus so many more) Are WE the next to fall? Remember my Rule No. 1 BANKRUPT REGIMES FALL! This Rule is absolute in all recorded history-- there are NO EXCEPTIONS. So how did the good people of Iceland do it? With thanks to timesonline.uk, here's a report on the Iceland events of the moment: "The normally placid middle class of Iceland is in revolt, taking to the streets in protest at their politicians, bankers and the financial meltdown. . . . When MPs gathered after their winter break on Tuesday, they were met by a large crowd creating a cacophony with everything from pots and pans to empty paint cans, whistles and musical instruments." An unemployed newspaperwoman told the story: 'We have to wake up the government that seems to be fast asleep,' said Audur Ketlisdottir, while pounding a pot

First Criminal Government Brought Down By Riots

...and there will be more as they circle around the globe and eventually reach here.

clipped from www.breakthematrix.com First Criminal Government Brought Down By Riots Posted by Rick Williams on Sun, 01/25/2009 - 5:31pm in BreakTheMatrix Like a swarm of locusts the bankers came-- and they ate everything. Last Thursday, Prime Minister Geir Haarde confidently announced that his government was "fully functional" and his ruling coalition intact. A sure sign of trouble-- whenever politicians or banksters tell us things like that, WATCH OUT. Well, Haarde's car got pelted by eggs and cans Thursday night in the latest of Iceland's steady stream of riots, and the courageous PM quickly rethought his position. On Friday, Haarde said he would quit More than 6,000 demonstrators stood outside Iceland's parliament on Saturday, dismissing the Prime Minister's promise to resign and demanding that the Haarde government step down immediately. "How is it possible to sit at home and not protest against the complete misuse of power we have had to suffer as a nation?

Thomas Jefferson on Moral Examples

clipped from etext.virginia.edu Everything is useful which contributes to fix us in the principles and practice of virtue. When any signal act of charity or of gratitude, for instance, is presented either to our sight or imagination, we are deeply impressed with its beauty and feel a strong desire in ourselves of doing charitable and grateful acts also. On the contrary, when we see or read of any atrocious deed, we are disgusted with its deformity and conceive an abhorrence of vice. Now every emotion of this kind is an exercise of our virtuous dispositions; and dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise. But exercise produces habit, and in the instance of which we speak, the exercise being of the moral feelings, produces a habit of thinking and acting virtuously." --Thomas Jefferson to Robert Skipwith, 1771. ME 4:237, Papers 1:76

Thomas Jefferson on The Practice of Morality

This is worth repeating a thousand times...

"where wrong has been done, he who knows and conceals the doer of it makes himself an accomplice, and justly censurable as such."

clipped from etext.virginia.edu "My principle is to do whatever is right and leave the consequences to Him who has the disposal of them." --Thomas Jefferson to George Logan, 1813. ME 13:387 "Everyone is bound to bear witness, where wrong has been done." --Thomas Jefferson: Virginia Board of Visitors Minutes, 1824. ME 19:449 "The laws of [our] country... in offenses within their cognizance, compel those who have knowledge of a fact to declare it for the purposes of justice and of the general good and safety of society. And certainly, where wrong has been done, he who knows and conceals the doer of it makes himself an accomplice, and justly censurable as such." --Thomas Jefferson: Virginia Board of Visitors Minutes, 1825. ME 19:469 "Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them." --Thomas Jefferson to Francois de Marbois, 1817. ME 15:131

Chart -- Housing starts at all time low

clipped from www.facebook.com Chart -- Housing starts at all time low Share Fri 4:03pm

Latest Unemployment Graph

clipped from www.facebook.com Latest Unemployment Graph Share Fri 1:11pm US unemployment trend since 1971 -- the latest up-curve looks ominous indeed, especially since 2009 promises continued deterioration.

Thomas Jefferson on Moral Utility

Truths that carries with it the force to change our way of thinking and in turn change the way we govern.

clipped from etext.virginia.edu "Nature has constituted utility to man the standard and test of virtue. Men living in different countries, under different circumstances, different habits and regimens, may have different utilities; the same act, therefore, may be useful and consequently virtuous in one country which is injurious and vicious in another differently circumstanced." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Law, 1814. ME 14:143 "Circumstances must always yield to substance." --Thomas Jefferson: Batture at New Orleans, 1812. ME 18:76 "If [an act] is to effect the happiness of him to whom it is directed, it is virtuous; while in a society under different circumstances and opinions the same act might produce pain and would be vicious. The essence of virtue is in doing good to others, while what is good may be one thing in one society and its contrary in another." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1816. ME 15:77

Lenders All Say They Want To Help Mortgage Borrowers, But

6 different stories all revealing problems.

clipped from finance.yahoo.com Lenders all say they want to help mortgage borrowers stay in their homes. But when homeowners contact lenders in search of mortgage modifications, they often find getting help very difficult. Here are some stories from readers who struggled to find solutions.

Thomas Jefferson on Self-Interest and Morality

I said at the beginning of these postings on Jefferson that I thought that his talk on morality mostly related to generalities. I have definitely been challenged in that assumption based on the selective readings I have seen so far. Here are some lines that related to what I thought at the beginning.

clipped from etext.virginia.edu "That a man owes no duty to which he is not urged by some impulsive feeling... is correct, if referred to the standard of general feeling in the given case, and not to the feeling of a single individual." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Law, 1814. ME 14:144 "Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. But I consider our relations with others as constituting the boundaries of morality. With ourselves, we stand on the ground of identity, not of relation, which last, requiring two subjects, excludes self-love confined to a single one. To ourselves, in strict language, we can owe no duties, obligation requiring also two parties. Self-love, therefore, is no part of morality. Indeed, it is exactly its counterpart." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Law, 1814. ME 14:140 "The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them." --Thomas Jefferson: Address to Shawanee Nation, 1807. ME 16:424

WHY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MUST BE DISARMED

clipped from www.realityzone.com WHY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MUST BE DISARMED This quote was sent to us by Ursel Doran, 2009 Jan 4 Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive. ~ Noah Webster

Thomas Jefferson on Self-Interest and Morality

Wow!

clipped from etext.virginia.edu Self-Interest and Morality "Egoism, in a broader sense, has been... presented as the source of moral action. It has been said that we feed the hungry, clothe the naked, bind up the wounds of the man beaten by thieves, pour oil and wine into them, set him on our own beast and bring him to the inn, because we receive ourselves pleasure from these acts... These good acts give us pleasure, but how happens it that they give us pleasure? Because nature hath implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses... The Creator would indeed have been a bungling artist had he intended man for a social animal without planting in him social dispositions. It is true they are not planted in every man, because there is no rule without exceptions; but it is false reasoning which converts exceptions into the general rule." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Law, 1814. ME 14:141

US: A Country Without Mercy

After reading the article ask yourself how equipped you are to handle this problem if it came knocking on your door. I posted how I deal with it at my site under the legal services section.

clipped from www.informationclearinghouse.info The United States: A Country Without Mercy In the United States, the country with the largest prison population in the world, the number of wrongly convicted is very large. Hardly any felony charges are resolved with trials. The vast majority of defendants, both innocent and guilty, are coerced into plea bargains. Not only are the innocent framed, but the guilty as well. It is quicker and less expensive to frame the guilty than to convict them on the evidence. Many Americans are wrongfully convicted, because they trust the justice system. They naively believe that police and prosecutors are moved by evidence and have a sense of justice. The trust they have in authorities makes them easy victims of a system that has no moral conscience and is untroubled by the injustice it perpetrates. The unfaithful wife retaliated by accusing Strong of rape. There was no evidence of rape, but Strong was deceived into a plea bargain. Once Strong entered a plea, he was double-crossed and given 60 years.

Torture Inc.

They spirit of tyranny at work everywhere. Has anyone seen the spirit of resistance?

clipped from www.informationclearinghouse.info Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq? By Deborah Davies They are just some of the victims of wholesale torture taking place inside the U.S. prison system that we uncovered during a four-month investigation for Channel 4 . It’s terrible to watch some of the videos and realise that you’re not only seeing torture in action but, in the most extreme cases, you are witnessing young men dying. If a prisoner doesn’t drop to the ground fast enough, a guard kicks him or stamps on his back. There’s a high-pitched scream from one man as a dog clamps its teeth onto his lower leg. Another prisoner has a broken ankle. He can’t crawl fast enough so a guard jabs a stun gun onto his buttocks. The jolt of electricity zaps through his naked flesh and genitals. For hours afterwards his whole body shakes.

America, Put This Reminder on Your Calander

Put it on there, read it, listen to it, and know that he knew what he was talking about.

clipped from www.informationclearinghouse.info Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation January 17, 1961 "This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. "

Thomas Jefferson on Moral Principles - The Moral Sense

I especially like Jefferson’s second excerpt here. This is the way I see things. The Internet is God’s greatest act of grace. With it many are finding the truth about many important things that concern us all. With this truth greater minds are made day after day and at the same time a stronger more united force is rising to resist the evil that befalls us all. I do not see utopia on the horizon but I do see the subversion of evil once again. May God speed the way.

The next clipping will be from a new section called "Self-Interest and Morality".

clipped from etext.virginia.edu "Experience proves that the moral and physical qualities of man, whether good or evil, are transmissible in a certain degree from father to son." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1813. ME 13:395 "[It is a] general truth that great men will think alike and act alike, though without intercommunication." --Thomas Jefferson to William B. Giles, 1796. ME 9:326 "Assuming the fact that the earth has been created in time and consequently the dogma of final causes, we yield, of course, to this short syllogism: Man was created for social intercourse; but social intercourse cannot be maintained without a sense of justice; then man must have been created with a sense of justice." --Thomas Jefferson to Francis Gilmer, 1816. ME 15:24

Thomas Jefferson on Moral Principles - The Moral Sense

Self-evident truth that carries with it the ability to change our thinking which in turn will change the way we govern.

clipped from etext.virginia.edu "I sincerely... believe... in the general existence of a moral instinct. I think it the brightest gem with which the human character is studded, and the want of it as more degrading than the most hideous of the bodily deformities." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Law, 1814. ME 14:143 "The moral sense [is] the first excellence of well-organized man." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1823. ME 15:418 "The moral law of our nature... [is] the moral law to which man has been subjected by his Creator, and of which his feelings or conscience, as it is sometimes called, are the evidence with which his Creator has furnished him." --Thomas Jefferson: Opinion on French Treaties, 1793. ME 3:228 "Conscience [is] the only sure clue which will eternally guide a man clear of all doubts and inconsistencies." --Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1789. ME 7:350, Papers 15:118

Thomas Jefferson on Moral Principles - The Moral Sense

Self-evident truth that carries with it the force to change our way of thinking and in turn change the way we govern.

clipped from etext.virginia.edu "How necessary was the care of the Creator in making the moral principle so much a part of our constitution as that no errors of reasoning or of speculation might lead us astray from its observance in practice." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Law, 1814. ME 14:139 "Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. [Nature] laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science." --Thomas Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 1786. ME 5:443 "I believe... that [justice] is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing; as a wise Creator must have seen to be necessary in an animal destined to live in society." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1816. ME 15:76

Thomas Jefferson on Moral Principles - The Moral Sense

Forgotten self-evident truth that carries the force to change our thinking which would change the way we govern.

clipped from etext.virginia.edu "He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For one man of science, there are thousands who are not. What would have become of them? Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong merely relative to this. This sense is as much a part of his nature, as the sense of hearing, seeing, feeling; it is the true foundation of morality... The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or less degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body. This sense is submitted indeed in some degree to the guidance of reason; but it is State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will -Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1787