Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Minnesota Recount Not Finished in Litigation Dispute Double Counting

Minnesota: who could disagree?

Coleman
..."Nobody's vote should be counted twice and every vote that should be counted hopefully will get a chance to be counted in this process. I think all Minnesotans will be served by that. You can't hold office if people think that somebody else's vote was double-counted or your vote wasn't considered," Coleman explained....

..."I just want to make sure no vote is counted twice and I want to make sure every absentee ballot is judged by a similar standard so it's fair. If we get there, then we should have a result we can live with," he said.

http://kstp.com/article/stories/S754490.shtml?cat=89


Minnesota Recount Duplicates from damaged ballots which had to be hand-copied, the sent through the optical-scan tabulating machines.

Ridiculously, it appears a host of the damaged ballots may actually have been counted by machine initially on election day, then some may have been placed in an envelope without awareness the damaged ballots had indeed been tallied by machine.

Now Franken has added potentially to his recount tally by having the damaged ballots/copies recounted in the recount!

Unbelievable!

Net the Truth Online

JANUARY 5, 2009, 4:42 A.M. ET Funny Business in Minnesota
In which every dubious ruling seems to help Al Franken. Wall Street Journal

Under Minnesota law, election officials are required to make a duplicate ballot if the original is damaged during Election Night counting. Officials are supposed to mark these as "duplicate" and segregate the original ballots. But it appears some officials may have failed to mark ballots as duplicates, which are now being counted in addition to the originals. This helps explain why more than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote. By some estimates this double counting has yielded Mr. Franken an additional 80 to 100 votes.

This disenfranchises Minnesotans whose vote counted only once. And one Canvassing Board member, State Supreme Court Justice G. Barry Anderson, has acknowledged that "very likely there was a double counting." Yet the board insists that it lacks the authority to question local officials and it is merely adding the inflated numbers to the totals.

In other cases, the board has been flagrantly inconsistent. Last month, Mr. Franken's campaign charged that one Hennepin County (Minneapolis) precinct had "lost" 133 votes, since the hand recount showed fewer ballots than machine votes recorded on Election Night. Though there is no proof to this missing vote charge -- officials may have accidentally run the ballots through the machine twice on Election Night -- the Canvassing Board chose to go with the Election Night total, rather than the actual number of ballots in the recount. That decision gave Mr. Franken a gain of 46 votes.

Meanwhile, a Ramsey County precinct ended up with 177 more ballots than there were recorded votes on Election Night. In that case, the board decided to go with the extra ballots, rather than the Election Night total, even though the county is now showing more ballots than voters in the precinct. This gave Mr. Franken a net gain of 37 votes, which means he's benefited both ways from the board's inconsistency.

And then there are the absentee ballots. The Franken campaign initially howled that some absentee votes had been erroneously rejected by local officials. Counties were supposed to review their absentees and create a list of those they believed were mistakenly rejected. Many Franken-leaning counties did so, submitting 1,350 ballots to include in the results. But many Coleman-leaning counties have yet to complete a re-examination. Despite this lack of uniformity, and though the state Supreme Court has yet to rule on a Coleman request to standardize this absentee review, Mr. Ritchie's office nonetheless plowed through the incomplete pile of 1,350 absentees this weekend, padding Mr. Franken's edge by a further 176 votes.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123111967642552909.html


Minnesota: Ruling in Senate Recount

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 25, 2008
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled against Senator Norm Coleman’s effort to keep dozens of possible double votes from Democratic-heavy precincts out of the long-running Senate recount, but left the door open for a lawsuit. Lawyers for Mr. Coleman, a Republican, said the decision virtually guaranteed that the recount would end in litigation, delaying the seating of a Minnesota senator well past when the next Congress convenes. Mr. Coleman trails his Democratic rival, Al Franken, by 47 votes. The issue before the court concerned damaged ballots that could not be fed through optical scanners. Under state law, election judges must copy such ballots, mark the copies as “duplicates” and count them, while keeping the originals in an envelope. Mr. Coleman contends originals and duplicates made it into the recount. His lawyers went to the court when the State Canvassing Board ruled against him on those ballots.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/us/politics/25brfs-RULINGINSENA_BRF.html?ref=us

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Man Made Global Warming Disputed

2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved
By Christopher Booker
Last Updated: 5:51PM GMT 27 Dec 2008

The first, on May 21, headed "Climate change threat to Alpine ski resorts" , reported that the entire Alpine "winter sports industry" could soon "grind to a halt for lack of snow". The second, on December 19, headed "The Alps have best snow conditions in a generation" , reported that this winter's Alpine snowfalls "look set to beat all records by New Year's Day".

Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects.

First, all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare. Last winter, as temperatures plummeted, many parts of the world had snowfalls on a scale not seen for decades. This winter, with the whole of Canada and half the US under snow, looks likely to be even worse. After several years flatlining, global temperatures have dropped sharply enough to cancel out much of their net rise in the 20th century.

Ever shriller and more frantic has become the insistence of the warmists, cheered on by their army of media groupies such as the BBC, that the last 10 years have been the "hottest in history" and that the North Pole would soon be ice-free – as the poles remain defiantly icebound and those polar bears fail to drown. All those hysterical predictions that we are seeing more droughts and hurricanes than ever before have infuriatingly failed to materialise.

Even the more cautious scientific acolytes of the official orthodoxy now admit that, thanks to "natural factors" such as ocean currents, temperatures have failed to rise as predicted (although they plaintively assure us that this cooling effect is merely "masking the underlying warming trend", and that the temperature rise will resume worse than ever by the middle of the next decade).

Secondly, 2008 was the year when any pretence that there was a "scientific consensus" in favour of man-made global warming collapsed. At long last, as in the Manhattan Declaration last March, hundreds of proper scientists, including many of the world's most eminent climate experts, have been rallying to pour scorn on that "consensus" which was only a politically engineered artefact, based on ever more blatantly manipulated data and computer models programmed to produce no more than convenient fictions.

Thirdly, as banks collapsed and the global economy plunged into its worst recession for decades, harsh reality at last began to break in on those self-deluding dreams which have for so long possessed almost every politician in the western world. As we saw in this month's Poznan conference, when 10,000 politicians, officials and "environmentalists" gathered to plan next year's "son of Kyoto" treaty in Copenhagen, panicking politicians are waking up to the fact that the world can no longer afford all those quixotic schemes for "combating climate change" with which they were so happy to indulge themselves in more comfortable times.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/3982101/2008-was-the-year-man-made-global-warming-was-disproved.html

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http://www.voteallegheny.org/PaRTKlaw2009.pdf

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Second Constitututional Convention in our Lifetime?

Over ten years ago, Pennsylvania was about to issue a convening of states to determine a potential amendment or amendments states would propose to the United States Constitution. Vocal citizens wrote letters, packed offices of legislators, and stopped what was billed as a harmless Conference of the states.

The convening would not have been harmless. The potential existed for enough states, 34, to issue a call for a federal convention, for one stated purpose, to propose a specific amendment, or specific amendments, all agreed to by 34 states in a call for a convention.

Once a call for a convention is submitted by 34 states, the convention is called.

There is controversy concerning whether or not the call must be based on the same exact amendment or amendments.

In other words each of 34 states would propose an amendment but each amendment (34) is different.

We think Shaffly is stretching to determine the call for a convention by the states can be based on different amendment proposals all according to Shaffly basically combined when the 33rd (Wyoming?) and 34th state such as Ohio propose an amendment and add to the 'collective' call for a convention by the states. Shaffly may also be dismissing as many others that a state can rescind a previous call. The Constitution is silent on details.

It's not that it would be impossible for all to converge so neatly, but it is unlikely the idea the Framers offered, states could propose an amendment or amendments to the Constitution, in a Convention of the required 3/4th of states, would enable amendments proposed by a state (and a call for a convention to offer them) some 30 or 100 years ago to be added make up the total of 34 calls for a convention.

But if states would call for a convention for the same exact amendment, say a bailout for themselves, (see Nancy Levant's piece) that presents little doubt a convention would be obligated to be called.

Upon the call and subsequent convening, delegates from the states could propose more than one amendment, a string of amendments, and potentially craft an entirely new Constitution.

The delegates could also alter the ratification process just as the framers of our United States Constitution did by altering the requirement contained in the Articles of Confederation.

The articles called for unanimous ratification of alteration of the Articles of the Confederation.

The Framers of the Constitution determined 3/4ths was adequate so only 9 of 13 states were needed to enact the Constitution of 1789.

Read our former site for more info about an Article V Convention.

http://members.tripod.com/~DIRTLINE/ArticleVbib.html

Net the Truth Online

BANKRUPTED STATES = CON-CON & NEWSTATE CONSTITUTION
By Nancy Levant
December 24, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

The strategically planned and forthcoming Constitutional Convention, which will address “a balanced budget,” is quite a cover story. Therefore, let us consider the truth behind this elaborate usurpation scheme.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy116.htm




Con Con Is a Terrible Idea
by Phyllis Schlafly December 19, 2008

The mind-boggling amounts of the bailouts Congress has passed and is still debating, plus shocking Wall Street frauds, seem to have plunged some lawmakers into a silly season. Ohio state legislators this month held a surprise hearing on a resolution calling for a national constitutional convention, and then canceled a vote after dozens of citizens showed up to speak against it.

We already have a U.S. Constitution that has withstood the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune for more than two centuries, and we don't need a new constitution. There is nothing wrong with the one we have except that politicians are not obeying it and judges are indulging in too much activism.

The idea that adding new words to the Constitution to require balancing the federal budget, or to give President Barack Obama a line-item veto so he can veto the extravagant spending he has already endorsed, is delusionary. The only thing more outlandish is the fanciful notion that a 2009 Con Con could adopt such requirements while avoiding other mistakes.

The most influential players in any new constitutional convention (colloquially known as a Con Con) would be Big Media giving us round-the-clock television coverage. The 2008 presidential campaign proved that the media consider themselves actors in the political process, not merely reporters.

Outside of a Con Con hall, demonstrators would hold court demanding constitutional changes. These would be staged by gay activists and their opponents, pro-abortionists and pro-lifers, radical feminists, the environmentalists, gun control advocates, animal rights extremists, D.C. Statehood agitators, those who want to relax immigration and those who would restrict it, mortgage defaulters, and the unions -- all demanding consideration of amendments to recognize their claimed rights.

Article V requires Congress to call a new Constitutional Convention to consider "amendments" (note the plural) if two-thirds (34) of the states pass resolutions calling for it. There are no other rules in the Constitution or in federal law to list or limit a Con Con's purpose, procedure, agenda, or election of delegates...


http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2008/dec08/08-12-19.html




Just say no no to a Con Con
Posted: December 17, 2008
1:00 am Eastern © 2008

The mind-boggling amounts of the bailouts Congress has passed and is still debating, plus shocking Wall Street frauds, seem to have plunged some lawmakers into a silly season. Ohio state legislators this month held a surprise hearing on a resolution calling for a national Constitutional Convention, and then canceled a vote after dozens of citizens showed up to speak against it.

We already have a U.S. Constitution that has withstood the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune for more than two centuries, and we don't need a new constitution. There is nothing wrong with the one we have except that politicians are not obeying it and judges are indulging in too much activism.

The idea that adding new words to the Constitution to require balancing the federal budget, or to give President Barack Obama a line-item veto so he can veto the extravagant spending he has already endorsed, is delusional. The only thing more outlandish is the fanciful notion that a 2009 Constitutional Convention (colloquially known as a Con Con) could adopt such requirements while avoiding other mistakes.

The most influential players in any new Con Con would be Big Media, giving us round-the-clock television coverage. The 2008 presidential campaign proved that the media consider themselves actors in the political process, not merely reporters.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83785


Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Morning Joe Fails Viewers Big Time

Hilarious! Morning Joe anchors and guests are all in a tizzy over the bailout of the banking industry. They're irate that there's a lack of transparency!

What a hoot. Where's someone like Fitzgerald to INVESTIGATE THE CONNECTIONS - the gang's all there, discussing the crisis of our United States economy. The group seems in a mind set to blame everybody but themselves for the lack of oversight. Where's the investigation of the CEOs? Those dastardly private operators taking millions in bonuses. Then taking all of the taxpayers money and paying out these already planned big bonuses? Someone should investigate, the gang's all here in chorus.

The next Administration, Barack Obama should investigate! Where'd all the money go???

Where were these questions a month or so ago?

They've been wailing for over 45 minutes at the plight of American workers in the auto industry. They're being asked to take cuts in salaries, what about the bankers? Where are the drastic salary cuts of private bankers? Pat Buchanan sits with the group, waiting his turn.

Scarborough asked why the silence before the banks got all the bailout money, but now the grilling in Congress and mutterings of how highly paid auto-workers are. Where are the reporters who used to be on the side of the little guy, working stiffs themselves?

Oh come on Joe. Where are the reporters? Where are you?

Where were you when John McCain rushed back to DC before the first Presidential Debate, pulling out of the shadows authors ignored by the mainstream media for decades upon decades? New American magazine writers, for instance. Libertarian writers? And so forth.

When Richard Haas guested on your program, you had your chance to ask the President of the Council on Foreign Relations any question about the bailout you chose. You didn't.

MSNBC "MORNING JOE" INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD HAASS, PRESIDENT, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS SUBJECT: MIDDLE EAST INTERVIEWERS: JOE SCARBOROUGH, MIKA BRZEZINSKI, MIKE BARNICLE, PAT BUCHANAN 7:40 A.M. EST, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16,

http://web.fnsg.com/transcript.htm?id=20081216t3702&nquery=&query=&SLID=e231ce054215b267574c50a7c02bf681


Related video

http://www.jordomedia.com/RSS/l_op=viewrss/lid=2566.html


Neither did Patrick Buchanan ask anything of Haas. In fact, Buchanan sat so silently by taking it all in without comment, the other panelists including you and Mika and Geist joked the CFR and Trilateralists conspiracy angle didn't enter into the interview session cause Pat was so quiet.

And didn't you have a string of guests on before the votes were taken on whether or not to hand over billions to the banking industry? Didn't you have Pulitzer Prize winning journalists guesting every single day before the billions passed from taxpayers to Wall Street?

Pat Buchanan on the program again as a co-contributor, said not a word about the Council on Foreign Relations members and associates and the interconections therein. When Prez of CFR guested and Pat was present, it was like he was in his own silent world. Buchanan asked nothing of Richard Haas when the man sat right across from him!

He couldn've asked hey Richard, what are these bankers up too? They got all this money from the Congress which we have to borrow and everybody is mum about how that money is being spent. What do you know, Mr. Haas, and when did you know it?

Buchanan actually had the nerve to say this morning - it's those libertarians! Those CATO types, everything is open, free traders.

Huh? Not quite, Pat. Libertarian thinkers like Ron Paul are right on the mark - it's free trade, but fair trade, with constraints in place as defined by our U.S. Constitution, and it's the sickening idea that our Congress enable a failure of a Federal Reserve system to continue unchallenged in its continued failure!

It's Congress and people like you who when they have the chance to ask and ask and ask decent questions one after the other they don't.

Congress acted quickly on the bailouts to the bankers even though, we stress, even though at the time (and to this day) the majority of Americans polled did not want the bailout to go through.

And here is what sell-out Pat Buchanan said and wrote:

Day of Reckoning
by Patrick J. Buchanan

...Why should we do this? Because otherwise there will be a financial panic, followed by a market collapse, wiping out pensions, 401Ks, portfolios and defined benefit plans of Middle America, forcing millions into bankruptcy and millions more to put off retirement and continue working until they drop.

In a democracy, it is said, you get the kind of government you deserve. But what did the American people do to deserve this? What did they do to deserve the quality of financial, corporate and political leadership that marched them into this mess – and that today postures as their rescuers?

Consider what this mess has already cost taxpayers: $29 billion to buy the rotten paper of Bear Stearns so J.P. Morgan would buy the investment bank; $85 billion for 80 percent of AIG to nationalize it; $150 billion in a stimulus package to flood the nation with cash; perhaps $300 billion to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; and now $700 billion to begin taking the toxic paper off the hands of America's big banks.

And even if this is passed, say Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, there is no guarantee this will resolve the crisis. If the $700 billion is not provided and the toxic paper is not pulled off the books of the world's banks by U.S. taxpayers, however, we face an almost certain collapse, surging bankruptcies, rising unemployment, a shrinkage of GDP and a recession, if not worse.

Yet, the fellows who tell us we face a financial mushroom cloud over every American city if we do not act at once to provide the $700 billion did not see this coming and can make no guarantee that this will succeed and end the crisis.

Nevertheless, it must be done, and done now, as collapse is imminent.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan98.html


Well, Pat wrote a book using the correct term for the foundation of our nation as a republic, not a democracy, yet Pat now uses the term democracy. Buchanan says nothing about a corrupt Federal Reserve system or ending it as it is unconstitutional.

The public had spoken in a republic, while the public should be heard, and some weight of course given to the public, in a republic the rule of law is well the rule of law. All of Congress and the President and any elected federal officials take an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution.

Congress not only ignored us, Congress and the President and the President-Elect ignored the U.S. Constitution.

Now the lame duckers are ducking for cover over the mistake of giving billions to the Wall Street bankers who continue to ignore them as well (tit for tat) since after all Congress did not mandate any oversight or even any report from the Treasury Dept. about where the money went and how it was spent.

Yet people like Buchanan and Scarborough and Barnacle and all guests pre-bailout were hemming and hawing around asking nothing directly mumbling that the economy would fail that's what Bernacke says, and whoever says and maybe they're right. The sky will fall and we can't chance our entire economy going under.

(Exactly what Buchanan said, yet he's still promoted as in the know about our Constitutional republic)

Guess what, it's all already an illusion. The worst of the worst scheme in the history of our nation. A controlled economy that isn't. It was the biggest game since its inception in 1913 known as the Federal Reserve System.

Maybe the next generation of taxpayers (non-government employees) will wake up when they see their first paycheck after high school and they are of the age to vote - maybe they'll say hey over half of my paycheck is gone for this or that or the other thing for one government service or another.

None of you said let the banks fail and by the way the Federal Reserve System itself is responsible for this mess. This global baloney is responsibile for this mess. all Administrations and Congresses that keep this system going decade after decade are responsible for this mess.

It's the Federal Reserve System, stupids. And a corrupt Congress, Presidents for the past nearly 90 years (after Obama's first term) who keep the Federal Reserve system going.

It's a private system. And those at its head must have something really juicy on all Presidents and Congresspersons (critters) to keep them at bay.

Ron Paul: Federal Reserve for dummies - Youtube and Blog bomb
January 12, 2008

http://rip747.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/ron-paul-federal-reserve-for-dummies-youtube-and-blog-bomb/

Of course there's always another viewpoint in response read those as well and make your own determinations. But don't miss reading The Creature of Jekyll Island, too.

As for the video, we don't have time right now for a one-hour video session, but we've read the Creature book a while back and it is eye-opening.

Our Founding Framers did not create the Federal Reserve central bank and basically expected all debt created by the federal government - wars and such - to be immediately paid off with recourse to tariffs on imports as well and other 'temporary' measures.

Not so in modern times with continued deficits for everything under the sun and now trillion dollars plus for a bailout of banks, car manufacturers, last time we checked entities are privately owned and managed.

Link to Buchanan org site

http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/6547465D-A206-47B7-8934-DE9C753E20B2/

We don't endorse the site or the viewpoint that Buchanan helps expose the Federal Reserve System. Buchanan has had innumerable chances pre-bailout and since to forcefully explain why the Federal Reserve system doesn't work for a free people.

He could have explained the generational bondage created by deficit after deficit spending. He hasn't done so not once on Morning Joe where he has the spotlight regularly as a commentator.

Additionally he's said and written the bailout should go through otherwise the entire economic system will collapse!

Buchanan actually had the nerve to blame libertarian thinking for the mess!

Anyone who gives Buchanan any credence from this point forward should reread his article:

Day of Reckoning

Nevertheless, it must be done, and done now, as collapse is imminent.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan98.html

Read commentary of

Jane Yoo Eegnurnt said:

This video is a waste of time. It was made in 1994, a folksy spin on basic historical facts known for decades before that.
Recycled fear mongering of a most tiresome variety. Except in very general terms this 14 year old recording is irrelevant to today’s financial market mess resulting from the housing bubble and out of control credit derivatives and other toxic financial “innovations”. Regardless of what some tacky tourist plaque in Georgia says, the Federal Reserve was not “created” there in 1910. It was conceived there and created by the US Congress after lengthy debates in 1913. There is nothing particularly unusual about it, despite the Gothic novel cachet of this video or the 4th rate anti-Semitic fantasies of prior commenters. The Fed is a central bank. Almost every country in the world has one. From time to time, as with all human creations, they screw up, and that is PART of the reason for the aforementioned housing bubble and AWOL securitized/off-balance-sheet/derivatives
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Then read the followup commentary:

geo said:

Whether or not the Federal Reserve system was “conceived” at Jekyll Island is irrelevant to the fact that the Federal Reserve Act passed by Congress in 1913 was unconstitutional. Congress knew they were doing wrong because they waited to the last minute before breaking to sleaze the legislation through.

It matters not that other countries may be controlled by private central banks. In America we have a rule of law called the Constitution, and it is to be obeyed.

It is not outdated to understand the beginnings of the Federal Reserve private banking system where money is created out of nothing with interest attached to it. It has resulted in a pyramid scheme of money creation that does not reflect the true value of production. It is the sole reason for today’s economic woes. The private banking system needs to be totally cut loose, and the Congress needs to implement a new interest free currency based on silver or gold.

http://buchanan.org/blog/2008/12/video-the-creature-from-jekyll-island/#comment-14023


While Buchanan understands the danger of the Federal Reserve system, when he has an opportunity to directly link the system to banking shenanigans, he fails us. He can write all the books he wants and make all the speeches for high speaking fees, and make appearances on Morning Joe, but when Buchanan had the opportunities on Morning Joe to actually tell everyone the truth - face to face with Federal Reserve supporters - he fails over and over again.

He simply has lost credibility on the important issues we are all watching exactly what is tumbling. But few if any other than Ron Paul and a handful of others have the same platform as Buchanan and as the 'insiders.'

Geo has it exactly right. Geo's expressive and accurate material should be put up on billboards across the nation right beneath Buchanan's traitorious words.

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Of course, in the back of our minds is the potential for an even grander conspiracy to be unraveling before us. Maybe the Federal Reserve supporers want the system to collapse so they can offer a different system. Maybe a global system and one based not on the dollar but on some other currency or even an international currency.

It's not beyond the pale for insiders to concoct some scheme some crisis - a fake emergency or crisis that spirals out of control - then swoop in unnoticed with some solution to the crisis.

While we don't put any stock into the position it's all the Zionists fault, it's the Jewish bankers (sweetliberty.org's often stated position), there is no doubt manipulation and control are the gods of insiders.

Such exist as noted by none other than Caroll Quigley in his book (and Bill Clinton's mentor) Tragedy and Hope.

Notice the hope hype has been part of every single Administration since, well likely Woodrow Wilson.

Also waiting in the wings as we've noted on Truth Online, and here, World Peace Through World Law, and a new Constitution already crafted. We've warned in our sidebar info of the potetial for use of a second Constitutional Convention and the dangers inherent to a call for a federal convention for whatever stated purpose by the states.

Several sites have recently noted the potential for a call for a convention when 34 states submit a proposed Amendment. (Joseph Farah's World Net Daily)(Tom DeWeese's American Policy Center)

Accordig to WND, Wyoming lawmakers are considering legislation to prevent former calls from the state for amendment by convention to be deemed retracted...

Wyoming lawmakers oppose Constitutional Convention

...The American Policy Center listed states that have called for a Constitutional Convention, including Wyoming, prompting Wyoming state Rep. Amy Edmonds to tell WND she and several other lawmakers in the state are working on "how we get Wyoming out of this."

The state had adopted various resolutions over the years seeking a Constitutional Convention. In 1999, however, lawmakers voted to repeal them.

"A JOINT RESOLUTION to repeal requests made to Congress to call a convention for the purpose of proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States," was the title of the 1999 work in Wyoming.

"We are asking for all of those to be repealed," she said. "We're having our lawyers in the (Legislative Services Office) look this over, to find out what we can do."

"Wyoming doesn't want to be involved," she said.

If that fails, or is not possible, since APC reported there is no provision for a rescission once a state adopts a call for a Constitutional Convention, Edmonds said the state will try to provide requirements for exactly who would attend from the state and what their position would be.

Eidsmoe, who wrote "Christianity & the Constitution," as well as a number of other papers on the Constitution, said DeWeese probably is correct in that there are no provisions for rescission and no limits on when a convention could be convened.

Eidsmoe, who now is staff counsel for the Foundation for Moral Law, told WND that's because Article 5 of the U.S. Constitution, which allows for a Constitutional Convention, was among the later provisions written and was hastily constructed.

The fact is, he said, nobody knows if a state can call for a Constitutional Convention and then rescind that call, or whether there could be any limits place on a convention once the necessary 34 states support it.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83837


We haven't written about reports on the recent activity since our research has shown it is doubtful unrelated amendments (by state's calls for a convention) will be able to be rolled into one call when the last necessary state presents a formal amendment.

Be warned. We'll followup. Levant presents much for pondering... we'll track.

BANKRUPTED STATES = CON-CON & NEWSTATE CONSTITUTION
By Nancy Levant
December 24, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

...As the country is failing in every direction – from the former individual in America to each and every individual state in the country, the total economic crash of EVERYTHING – and all converging at the very same time and as we speak – is, let us say, extraordinarily convenient.

Add this convenience to the fact that on March 27, 1969, President Richard Nixon divided the country into 10 regions via the Government Reorganization Act. Then with Nixon’s Executive Order 11647, the nation was divided up into 10 administrative regions on February 14, 1972 (Federal Register February 12, 1972, Vol. 37, No. 30), which also established the Federal Regional Council for the newly designed 10 regions. Now, why did former President Richard Nixon redefine the United States? He did so because the United Nations passed a resolution that the United States must reorganize into 10 regions.

Can you name your regional directors? Who are these councils, and where are their office buildings? Actually, you don’t know because they were not “elected,” nor are they mentioned on your tell-a-visions. Your regional councilmen are “appointees.” Can you tell me who appointed them to regional power? Bet you can’t. And the reorganizing of our former nation, achieved more than 25 years ago, and of which you know nothing, certainly suggests that “government” as we knew it changed a long time ago. With all this information now in hands, ask yourselves what would happen in the event of a really big, national “crisis?” What powers do your states hold, or for that matter, your counties or local governments hold – especially since they are all bankrupt AND have regional managers.

Add this to your plate: now that you know your nation has been redrawn and redistributed, what if I told you that a new constitution was written at the same time the country was divided into 10 regions? Ever heard of the Proposed Constitution for the Newstates of America?

In 1964, the Ford Foundation funded an outfit called the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions to write a new constitution for our nation. After 40 drafts, a staff of 100+ people, and at a cost of 2.5 million dollars a year, a decade later (1974) the Proposed Constitution for the Newstates of America was finished. Mind you – a ten year, $25,000,000.00 project…let us therefore assume that the funding foundation(s) were very serious about this investment. And two years later in 1976, Mr. Nelson Rockefeller, who at that time was the president of the Senate, introduced HCR 28, which called for an unlimited Constitutional Convention – the perfect tool whereby to dissolve our current constitution and implant the handily written new constitution – and all without congressional oversight or public knowledge.

Didn’t go well for Nelson in 1976, but guess what? A new Constitutional Convention is right around our corners again – with 32 states requesting the Con-Con, and with only 34 required for it’s convening – and with most American states now totally, conveniently, bankrupt. Look at it this way: the Feds can not possibly bail out 50 states because they’ve already given all our money away – right? And we can’t pay taxes anyway because we have no jobs. Gosh…what can the Feds possibly do to rectify this horrible situation?

The current economic “crisis” is the tool, the highly planned and patient tool, to set up the global governing bureaucracy for real and for certain with the second convening of the Constitutional Convention in the wings. The big wigs tried it before in 1976, and they are trying again, but this time having manufactured national bankruptcy as public fear-based appeasement...

http://www.newswithviews.com/Levant/nancy116.htm


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Related:

Buchanan's cover between his own magazine's cover.

http://www.amconmag.com/

http://www.amconmag.com/archive.html

Monday, December 22, 2008

Volt Expected to Cause Taxpayer Revolt

Guest on Morning Joe reported the Chevy Volt - the hybrid car which uses high powered 'batteries' is priced at some $40,000 a piece, well beyond affordability of well, the Average Joe or Jane or Mark or Mika.

Lutz pegs first generation Chevy Volt price tag at $40,000
Posted Jun 19th 2008 at 9:14AM by Sam Abuelsamid

http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/06/19/lutz-pegs-first-generation-chevy-volt-price-tag-at-40-000/

MSNBC reporter ...said that's the set price so the company can make a 'profit.'

She said there may well be a revolt about the price tag of the Volt!

Well, we're not against innovation nor are we against getting a fair market price that generates humongous profits for 'private' companies.

We're not against profits for private companies.

But the United States is in the midst of tinkering with the free-market system upon which our nation was founded. To the point where we don't recognize that foundation as a republic based on both federalism of government and the free-market capitalist economic system.

The string of recent 'bailouts' of banks and now car manufacturing companies which in most instances have received already tax breaks and tax credits and so forth in the states where they are located is nothing less than government intervening in private affairs of business! While our legislators who voted for these bailouts have steered far clear of calling this socialistic - not even the naysayers have embraced the term for treasury's printing more money and borrowing from it - all to turn over the fake money to wholly private industries of banking and car manufacturing - this is socialistic.

all before President-Elect Barack Obama is sworn in as our next President of the U.S.

Revolt by the people? We;'re not holding our breath.

Earlier, MJ guests and co-hosts were discussing how non-transparent the billions to banks has been, and requests for information from the Treasury have been denied to the point of absurdity.

While we've published informational material about the Volt, we're not for any taxpayers funding for that or any other innovation in the private car manufacturing industry. Nobody should receive tax credits, tax swaps for 'creating' jobs or inventing new products, etc.

We've all seen exactly what happens when the tax-break game is played. It isn't just the so-called needy who get the breaks. soon enough Fortune 500 companies lined up for tax exemptions in tax-free zones in Michigan and for the past nearly 10 years in Pennsylvania.

After the tax-exemptions and/or tax breaks are received for some amount of years, as soon as the breaks/exemptions legally run their course, the company moves its operations elsewhere.

The situation of states giving tax-breaks for new companies will soon go the way of the dinosaur since many states are having funding problems for their own services!

Pennsylvania is a key example. Our Governor, Ed Rendell is seeking federal monies for whatever he can to forstall state deficits. Bond issue after bond issue in referendums have been floated during this administration for so many reasons it's difficult to keep track. All hide the true "debt" of the state with such gimmicks as bond referendums, moving monies around from one state coffer to another, and tappig into hidden accounts nobody but a few are in the know of just how much in debt Pennsylvania is under Rendell and a Democrat-controlled state House of Representatives and Republican-majority state Senate.

Meanwhile, state aide to Fortune 500s and car manufacturers isn't enough for some. Manufacturer after manufacturer and industry after industry has moved operations out of our country.

this game has happened pre-NAFTA too, but since Bill Clinton signed the act back in the early 90s our trade deficit with Mexico is ongoing! Recall when NAFTA was presented to the public it was billed as a "win-win" situation. The idea was to import some goods from Mexico, and as equally as possible export goods to Mexico to a base of workers whose incomes would rise enough to "afford" our products.

Trade Deficit Continues to Show U.S. Competitiveness Problems
Alan Tonelson
Monday, August 18, 2008

U.S. TRADE DEFICIT SHRINKS IN JUNE LED BY DECLINE IN NON-OIL BALANCE YET MANUFACTURING AND HIGH TECH GAPS WIDEN;The U.S. goods and services trade deficit shrunk narrowed by 4.10 percent in June, from $59.20 billion to $56.77 billion, as a steep 15.17 percent drop in the nation’s non-oil trade gap more than offset a 14.65 percent jump in oil imports to record levels and a 10.69 percent increase in the U.S. oil deficit to another record.

Yet the parts of the economy that generate the best-paying jobs and the greatest productivity gains – the manufacturing and high tech goods sectors – both saw their deficits expand in May, indicating that the sectors most critical to U.S. competitiveness continue underperforming on the trade front.. In addition, the bloated and chronic U.S. goods trade deficit with manufacturing-heavy China continued to expand, from $21.05 billion to $21.43 billion, or 1.81 percent.

These trends show up most strikingly the six-month year-to-date 2007-2008 comparisons made possible by this morning’s release of the June trade data. During this period, the overall U.S. Trade deficit declined by 1.94 percent, from $358.36 billion to $351.39 billion. Record and rapidly rising oil prices pushed the Jan.-June oil trade deficit up a stunning 52.10 percent, to $201.60 billion for the first six months of this year. The non-oil deficit, meanwhile, plummeted by 19.27 percent during this period, to $213.14 billion.

Yet the manufacturing deficit decreased by only 7 percent from Jan.-June, 2007-Jan.-June, 2008, to $272.23 billion, while the deficit in high tech goods actually increased by 9.30 percent, to $3.88 billion. Similarly, non-oil goods exports during this period increased 15.84 percent, significantly outpacing the manufacturing increase of 11.49 percent and the 7.14 percent rise in high tech goods exports.

Said Alan Tonelson, Research Fellow at the U.S. Business and Industry Council, “The economy’s ongoing export improvement continues to be driven primarily by much higher prices in agricultural products and other raw materials. This development may be encouraging for a third world country, but for an advanced industrialized nation like the United States it’s a formula for falling living standards and broader economic decline.”

http://www.americaneconomicalert.org/view_art.asp?Prod_ID=3048


The job losses continue. Sony Corp has pulled its operations from Westmoreland County after at least a decade of state aide for job creation, etc. Where is Sony going? Mexico.

Any federal legislator who voted for NAFTA should have been booted back when. Most were not not even Bill Clinton was booted in 1998, though he supported NAFTA and the First Lady, Hillary Clinton touted its benefits back then.

Offended unions? They acquiesced and wanted assurances for built-in educational retraining benefits when jobs were lost due to NAFTA. But the federal government couldn't keep up with the losses.

We are a sick nation to continue to allow these games.

The latest, bailing out or saving companies that want the federal cash to keep going but still want all the perks of a private company and still want to sell the product at a 'huge' profit - is a slap in the face to us all.

But it appears the people aren't in the mood to revolt just yet.

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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

PA Fayette More Housing in the Works

Though we've been boycotting the Uniontown Herald-Standard since the elections, (the editorial board embraced and supported quite a few incumbent PA state legislators who sponsored or voted for the unfair Keystone Opportunity Zones), we'll make this exception unless we find the material elsewhere.

Can you believe it? More federal and state grant monies for more housing developments which are to be built for whom to purchase? Low-incomers? People who can't afford to purchase a home in the free-market? But hey, with a little more help from the taxpayers, and the federal HOME program, people who otherwise would not be able to afford a pricey new home will be able to do so?

Have these people not seen what has already happened to the free market system which just a month ago needed a financial rescue from the federal government to the tune of a near trillion dollars? (And more bailouts are apparently to follow?

Should any one of the board of commissioners vote for receiving any more grant monies for the Federal HOME program, he/she will obviously have not learned the historical lessons.

The county agencies in on this deal have already received some over 1 million to jumpstart housing units for low-incomers, but it's simply never enough, never. Now they have the nerve and sob stories to want more grants from the government - monies which the state government doesn't have, nor does the federal government. Local government has no surplus either, and the city of Uniontown is bankrupt.

While the housing program for handicapped persons sounds like a charitable one, none of our government entities were founded to become a charity. Let's just build more housing units, apartments, for those in need because these people are needy, and by doing so, simply ignore how all of this government 'taxpayers' money impacts the you-know-the-word rest of the 'housing' rental industry.

What do proponents ignore? Every dollar taken from the taxpayers to support something the private sector can do more efficiently and effectively is less dollars in taxpayers' wallets to wisely spend.

The government does not care a hoot whether these programs are efficient or effective. It can always tap the taxpayers more and hide taxes in the form of grants and tax credits and in a growing number of cases fees built into other public services such as the cost of producing a simple paper copy of a county budget or a city resolution for citizens requesting such.

Take the housing rehabilitation program for low-incomers. Who are considered low-income home-owners nowadays? A family of 4 making over $50,000? Will they be among the potential 45 who are helped with the program?

So there's some $500,000 to be split among (easy math) 50 owners to rehabilite existing houses that's some $10,000 apiece. Seriously now, that is quite a good bit of money but $10,000 doesn't cover even half the cost of replacing a crumpling roof. But still, watch as people line up for the free grant money.

As for the booking center, we can't fault the city police department for wanting to participate in a program funded by the state for an activity that must be done, and centrally seems a better route than 45 different and separate municipalities. Plus, this is a service well within the duties of a police agency.

However, we do criticize use of the city police department when an off-site location which would be better suited to through traffic than the city of Uniontown.
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clip excerpt

Commissioners to vote on criminal booking center
By Amy Revak, Herald-Standard
12/17/2008

The commissioners also voted to place on Thursday's agenda motions to approve submission of two separate applications to the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development HOME Investment Partnerships Program for a $500,000 grant for a county homeowner rehabilitation program and for a $500,000 grant for a permanent supporting housing development.

Andrew French, executive director of the Fayette County Redevelopment Authority, said the rehabilitation grant funding would be used to give loans to low-income homeowners to rehabilitate their properties and 45 additional families could be helped.

Tammy Knouse of Fayette County Community Action Agency said the permanent housing development would be built in North Union Township near the old state police barracks off Connellsville Street. She said the project includes constructing 10 one-bedroom unit apartments for people with disabilities. She said $600,000 has been received from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and $500,000 has been received from the Fayette County Mental Health/Mental Retardation Agency for the project.
http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20222559&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Obama Denies North American Union Planned

Watch the video clip wherein a questioner asks Barack Obama point blank whether he believes a North American Union is being planned - one which includes an intercontinental highway which has been known as the NAFTA highway and one which potentially includes a currency known as the 'Amero.'


Now read everything you can acquire which shows the NAU is coming.

Obama made a big display of his displeasure with the North American Free Trade Agreement during the campaign debates for the Democrat nomination with Hillary Clinton and those few with John McCain.

Don't believe there's a plan for one world government? Just read World Peace Through World Law.

And more...

As we've said in an earlier post, Pat Buchanan asked nothing of the President of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haas when he guested on MSNBC's Morning Joe. What a prime opportunity for Buchanan to have asked about the North American Union!

Toward a North American Union
By: Patrick Wood Editor, The August Review

Quote: Good evening, everybody. Tonight, an astonishing proposal to expand our borders to incorporate Mexico and Canada and simultaneously further diminish U.S. Sovereignty. Have our political elites gone mad?
Lou Dobbs on Lou Dobbs Tonight, June 9, 2005


... The global elite, through the direct operations of President George Bush and his Administration, are creating a North American Union that will combine Canada, Mexico and the U.S. into a superstate called the North American Union (NAU). The NAU is roughly patterned after the European Union (EU). There is no political or economic mandate for creating the NAU, and unofficial polls of a cross-section of Americans indicate that they are overwhelmingly against this end-run around national sovereignty.

To answer Lou Dobbs, "No, the political elites have not gone mad", they just want you to think that they have.

The reality over appearance is easily cleared up with a proper historical perspective of the last 35 years of political and economic manipulation by the same elite who now bring us the NAU.

This paper will explore this history in order to give the reader a complete picture of the NAU, how it is made possible, who are the instigators of it, and where it is headed.

It is important to first understand that the impending birth of the NAU is a gestation of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government, not the Congress. This is the topic of the first discussion below.

http://www.augustreview.com/issues/regionalization/toward_a_north_american_union_200608181/


More

The CFR’s report, Building a North American Community:

http://www.cfr.org/publication/8102/building_a_north_american_community.html?breadcrumb=default


The U.S. Commerce Department’s SPP website:

http://www.spp.gov/


The Canadian government’s SPP website:

http://www.spp-psp.gc.ca/menu-en.aspx


The Mexican government:

http://www.sre.gob.mx/press/b186.htm


Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_and_Prosperity_Partnership_of_North_America


President Bush

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=62259


YouTube discussion Amero on CNBC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hiPrsc9g98

Buchanan Ignores Questioning CFR President Simply Smiles

Who is surprised at sell-out Patrick J. Buchanan? Not too many. Since his loss at his latest and obviously final bid for the Presidency, and receipt of hundreds of thousands of matching funds from the public coffers when he got the nomination of the Patriot Party, Buchanan has been sitting pretty high up.

Several books later, and co-correspondent or contributor on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Pat Buchanan seems not to care about what put him in the place he's in. People concerned not with conspiracy theories, but facts about the Council of Foreign Relations which raise questions about that organization.

And others.

When Richard Haas was announced to be a guest on Morning Joe, Mica B. and Joe Scarborough seemed to snicker over at Buchanan, sitting right across from the pair.

Haas arrived, spoke freely, without one question from Buchanan. Not a single question.

As Haas left, Mica and Joe again snickered at Buchanan. Scarborough leaned back and praised Haas and joked about Buchanan and no mention of the CFR and Trilateral Commission.

Buchanan just sat silently, and smiled.

Where are the Buchanan Brigade people?

On another issue, someone else noticed Buchanan's going, going, gone...

SHAME ON BUCHANAN!

What has happened to the Buchanan we were lead to believe would never abandon his principles?...

http://www.newswithviews.com/iserbyt/iserbyt20.htm


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SHAME ON BUCHANAN! By Charlotte Iserbyt October 21, 2004 NewsWithViews

...My feeling is that Republican Presidents have been more responsible for taking us down the totalitarian international government path than Democratic Presidents, excepting possibly President Roosevelt. I am no longer a Republican. My husband and I switched to Independent after I had my wakeup call serving in the first Reagan Administration. The leadership of both parties is controlled by the internationalists (Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Bilderbergers, and the neoconservative Council for National Policy) all of whom have an anti-sovereignty, internationalist agenda...

http://www.newswithviews.com/iserbyt/iserbyt20.htm


Research before it's too late

Ireland bloggers message board discussion U.S. politics New World Order

http://www.dublin.ie/forums/showthread.php?t=5991&page=2

PA: Early Voting But With Protections?

Will protections be put into place in Pennsylvania should legislators adopt the measure for Early Voting?

those would include enabling Early Voters the same opportunity to cast a paper ballot utilizing a 'precinct' optical scanner to afford every such voter the 'warnings' precinct voters receive. Over-voted ballots are impossible utilizing precinct electronic voting machines (more often chastized for lack of a true 'paper ballot record and trail), or paper ballots with precinct optical scanners.

The optical scanners notify voters of over-votes and an undervoted ballot before the voter casts the ballot. The feature allows the voter to review and alter the ballot if the voter chooses to do so.

Unlike absentee paper ballots, which receive no such review by the voter, the precinct paper ballots (other than Provisional), forestall ballots which are voided or rejected.

One need only look to Minnesota's Senate race which is thrown into a recount situation to understand the reasoning behind enabling the optical scanner review when paper ballots are utilized.

Without them, individuals make not only unintentional mistakes, but intentional marks which under normal circumstances would absolutely disqualify a ballot from being counted. Only in tight races would those even be considered in the overall mix.

Voters in such cases are not given a 'second chance' to replace a faulty ballot, on their own, and it may be left to other than the voter to try to determine the voter's intent.

That isn't the way voting was supposed to be designed.

Another feature paper ballots and machine cast ballots that should be implemented: a box for each race for None of the Above or No Choice. A ballot without this is subject to misinterpretation when voters leave what others view as a key important race, blank. It happens. Detractors of the DRE electronic machines point to hundreds or thousands of unmarked key races as the fault of the machines.

this could easily be addressed with a No Choice selection on all ballots for all races.

The same with the referendum questions. some people just don't care about those, and particularly with paper ballots, the potential exists for tampering later. Such could happen.

The next measure legislators must implement is for mandatory voter registration review and if necessary purges of 'ineligible' voters.

In this day and age with computerized databases it is unconscionable that the names of deceased persons still remain on most county voter registration lists.

Voters who have moved or changed addresses outside the district or county or state must also be reviewed.

A well-known organization stated the potential exists for at least 25 percent of a county's voter registry to consist of such ineligible voters.

In one county of note, Fayette, commissioners admitted to the need for a review as some at least 25,000 to 30,000 listings should be questioned and mailings should occur sometime in 2009 to determine status.

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Legislators plan bills to allow early voting
Saturday, December 13, 2008
By Tom Barnes, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau
HARRISBURG -- Many states allow people...

...And 31 states permit early voting, where voters can cast their ballots 10 or 15 days before the first Tuesday in November. Pennsylvania doesn't allow that either, but change could be in the air on that one.

Democratic state Reps. Scott Conklin of Centre and Eugene DePasquale of York plan to introduce legislation next year to allow voting in advance of election day.

Mr. Conklin would permit people to vote in person at their county Board of Elections, or at some other location the board would approve, beginning 10 days before Election Day. Early voting would apply to spring primaries as well as November general elections, and to municipal, county, state and national elections.

Some states, including Florida, currently permit early voting up to 15 days before an election.

Mr. DePasquale, grandson of former Pittsburgh City Councilman Jeep DePasquale, also would like to see early voting approved for all elections.

"We want to make it more flexible for working families, for senior citizens, and for avoiding long lines on Election Day," he said. "We need to make it easier for qualified voters to vote in Pennsylvania."

He said his bill and Mr. Conklin's probably will be combined into one piece of legislation at some point. They are both seeking co-sponsors now. If approved next year, the measure might not take effect until the May 2010 primaries, when Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidates will be chosen.

...Rep. Mike McGeehan, D-Philadelphia, plans to sponsor a related bill aimed at making voting by absentee ballot easier. It's called "no excuse needed." People could vote by absentee ballot for any reason at all -- or for no reason at all, but simply because they wanted to.

Now absentee ballots are available only to voters who will be of town, incapacitated, or hospitalized on Election Day.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08348/934979-454.stm

Monday, December 15, 2008

Bush Shoe Incident Something Amiss

Isn't it the oddest thing? There was absolutely no swarm of security around President Bush when a first shoe and then a second shoe came flying through the air as Bush stood at the podium and ducked. As odd, Bush ducked not once, but twice, and there was no look other than a slight snicker on his face.

Where were the Secret Servicemen? Enjoying the scene? Without a thought that possibly one or the other shoe may have contained a 'dirty' bomb? Is the name Reid not on the tip of the tongue of every Secret Service agent when watching a shoe fly through the air some several feet away from the head of the President of the United States of America?

IRAQ: SHOES AT BUSH, JOURNALIST PLANNED IT FOR MONTHS

http://www.agi.it/world/news/200812151223-pol-ren0033-art.html


Wednesday, 26 December, 2001, 17:45 GMT
Shoe bomb suspect 'one of many'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1729022.stm



And did Bush look in any way suspicious or frightened at the sight of a shoe sailing through the air straight at his head? Nope. After the first shoe made its way towards Bush, he ducked, then instead of staying down or pushing the Iraqi dignatary out of the way, too, run away from what could be a danger, he stood right back up and didn't budge an inch. Not one inch at the thought hey we make people take off their shoes at the airports in the United States. Why do we do that? Oh some guy was caught trying to damage an airliner full of people?

I know we've told our Secret Service guys to lay low here in Iraq, but this is ridiculous. Where are they? In the back of the room?

People may be waiting quite a while in long lines while shoes are being slipped or pulled off and put back on so the shoes can be scanned separately to check whether there is something amiss.

Yet, Bush just stands and ducks, stands and ducks while a shoe that's potentially been tampered with in some way sails through the air at his head.

Bush made a joke - it doesn't bother him? It's a size ten shoe that he threw? What if it was a shoe or two that had been dangerous in an unexpected way?

In the United States the removal of shoes at airports is mandatory, a requirement. Not so in Iraq? Not so for reporters attending President's press conferences?

The shoe removal became mandatory in 2006.

But the TSA's oversight covers only the United States. The federal agency can't require compliance with its regulations and policies at airports in other countries, says Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the TSA. “Many of the security procedures we employ, like the liquid ban, are similar in dozens of countries; others, like the shoe screening, are not.”

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080803/news_1t03advicem.html


Something is amiss, here.

We're the sheeple.

Do these national and presidential security experts not watch NCIS or 24?

The whole thing seems really weird. And with Barack Obama about to be sworn into office, the security had better be so tight around him that every single reporter facing him must be made to enter the room after first checking those shoes!

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Coincidence Who believes Sony?

Sony phasing out its Pennsylvania operations in Westmoreland County in the coming year or so. Is this a coincidence? The lease runs out in 2010 AND current economic conditions and a worldwide 'recession' have factored into the decision.

It's more believable the state and federal government tax-breaks and grants to Sony have run out over the course of its mere dozen year history in the area, it would be a gamble for the state of PA to give the same company more breaks to stay around because the state is asking for its own bailout

Rendell says state will get $900M in federal aid

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/state/s_602263.html

via grassrootspa.com

http://grassrootspa.com/


and continuously wants to float new bond issue referendumbs to pay for this or that.

and is in a bit of a budget quagmire

Gov. Ed Rendell's and PA General Assembly's so-called freeze on budgetary expenditures...

2008-09 Report

http://www.grassrootspa.com/blogcore/pdf/RendellFreezeList.pdf


right, but still somehow and someway they are going to divvy up the monies for more tax-breaks and economic stimulus incentives?

Thanks to Grassrootspa for this gem

Rendell’s “Economic Development” Spending October and November 2008

http://grassrootspa.com/blogcore/pdf/Rendell%27s_Eco_Devo_Spending_(October-November_2008).pdf


Where are they getting the money for all these giveaways? More emergency borrowing and bond issue referendumbs, perhaps.

don't forget about the Laurel Mountain Park Ski (Area) complex. Seven Springs seeks a new lease on the state-owned property, of course, if the state forks over some $6.5 million for updating the facilities which haven't turned a profit for decades. Somehow and someway, there's more and more millions to companies and ski resorts and bed and breakfasts, etc. that can either afford to float their own boat, or if not, go bankrupt like the mom and pops stores of lore.

blog sounds like us and vice versa just don't believe...

December 10, 2008
Pennsylvania gets it wrong again!

...Curiously, Sony announced this week that it will be closing the plant, some 12 or so years after opening, and around the time the incentives are drying up.

Anyone see a pattern here? ...

http://idiocyhappens.blogspot.com/


the Post-Gazette article reports:

He said he is hoping that "a renewable energy company" might take up some of the space that might be vacated by Sony. He said it's possible a second firm might move into the building also. He wouldn't give any more details about the companies or about how many jobs they would bring...

http://www.postgazette.com/pg/08344/933908-100.stm


And who will any newcomers be, if there are any newcomers to the abandoned site?

Most likely another Fortune 500 company receiving money from the state for job training, job enhancement, you get it.

"A renewable energy company?" Everybody hurry and search Governor Ed Rendell, renewable energy, etc. see which are likely to get the grants, get the tax-exemptions, get the job training monies from the state, and so on.

Rendell Press release

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS202146+20-Feb-2008+PRN20080220

Pennsylvania Gets $650 Million Renewable Energy Fund

http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/07/10/pennsylvania-gets-650-million-renewable-energy-fund/


We've covered what has historically happened with just such state and local programs to stimulate the local economies.

Wakeup:

http://dirtline.tripod.com/wakeup/index.html

One of many commentaries on unfair tax-break/exemption programs

http://dirtline.tripod.com/wakeup/id13.html


Government officials promise hundreds upon hundreds of new well-paying jobs which are subsidized by grants and low-interest or no-interest loans, and if companies locate in a designated Keystone Opportunity Zone, more all-in-the-family aide flows to the same company.

Meanwhile, government can't force a company to stay beyond the tax-breaks' expiration dates, so most if not all simply leave to seek a new deal elsewhere.

Isn't it a slap in the face that Sony has noted it has a base of operations out of our United States?

When the company leaves, workers receive unemployment insurance, then more retraining accessibility for jobs that pay about the same.

That is if some assurance is built-in to the next group that comes in to save the day.

More give-aways, more grants, more tax-freedom for some.

You get the idea. And more campaign donations or lobbying monies flowing. Maybe more cushy jobs when elected officials' are not re=elected, or they retire.

One need look no further than former Senator William Lincoln to see how things are done in the state of Pennsylvania...

Worse, when companies receive such tax breaks, which are not given to every other company like it, other companies and other businesses end up paying the share of the company receiving the tax-break. The government entities simply do not stop spending, and they don't eliminate programs that would free up money for the tax-break.

As we've asked before - when is the Whiskey Rebellion revolt going to happen again.

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Sony phasing out Westmoreland plant by 2010
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
By Tom Barnes and Ann Belser, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

...Late this afternoon, Sony issued a news release in which it said television manufacturing portion of the plant will close by the end of February. The facility opened in 1990 to produce large, rear-projection televisions. It currently has about 650 employees who are primarily involved with flat-panel LCD televisions, repair service and logistics. Due to current economic conditions, the company, its remaining plants in Baja, Mexico, should be able to handle market demand for the foreseeable future. Repair and logistics operations will shut down in Westmoreland in March 2010...

...Sony's lease with the Pennsylvania Industrial Developmjent Authority expires in 2010 and the company has told the state it will fulfill its lease.

He said the state Labor and Industry Department can help the workers if they are laid off, including retraining programs and additional education. He said they are very talented workers and is hopeful they could find new jobs fairly quickly.

The decisison to phase out the plant "goes to the worldwide recession and the fact that TVs are being made in different ways than they used to be made...

http://www.postgazette.com/pg/08344/933908-100.stm


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Pennsylvania pols push for Sony tax relief.(Top of the Week)(Sony Corp.)((Santorum, Rick))
Article from: Broadcasting & Cable Article date: February 23, 2004 Author: McConnell, Bill More results for: pennsylvania sony tax breaks | Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2004 Reed Business Information. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)

Sony is squawking, and two U.S. senators are listening. The media giant says it will move thousands of jobs from its Pittsburgh factory to Mexico unless Congress zaps nearly $100 million in import duties on components for new plasma screens. Closing the assembly plant, which produces some of Sony's new HDTV products, would darken a rare bright spot in America's set-manufacturing sector.

To prevent jobs from fleeing their home state, Pennsylvania Senators Rick Santorum and Arlen Specter are pushing legislation that would eliminate import duties on electron guns for cathode ray tubes, LCD panel assemblies, and flat-panel screen assemblies. With the tariff suspended, "Sony ...

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-113757778.html


Enjoy!

Digital Greenhouse Initatives

http://www.expansionmanagement.com/cmd/articledetail/articleid/15691/default.asp


Interesting Fannie Mae and Sony?

Gov. Rendell Announces Program

http://www.banking.state.pa.us/banking/lib/banking/news_and_events/press_releases/2004/040414.pdf


March 2001 - Keystone Opportunity Zones Expand in Westmoreland County

Governor Tom Ridge announced on Tuesday, March 27, 2001 that Pennsylvania now offers more than 10,000 additional acres at 75 sites statewide as tax free zones. Pennsylvania originally boasted 12 Keystone Opportunity Zones, which encompassed more than 26,000 acres.

http://www.co.westmoreland.pa.us/westmoreland/cwp/view.asp?A=1432&Q=607659


Summation of the business incentives and taxes in Pennsylvania

http://www.co.westmoreland.pa.us/westmoreland/cwp/view.asp?A=1432&Q=607414

Inhofe Posts Scientists Dissent Man-Made Global

Warming...

UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims

Study: Half of warming due to Sun! –Sea Levels Fail to Rise? - Warming Fears in 'Dustbin of History'

POZNAN, Poland - The UN global warming conference currently underway in Poland is about to face a serious challenge from over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe who are criticizing the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore. Set for release this week, a newly updated U.S. Senate Minority Report features the dissenting voices of over 650 international scientists, many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN. The report has added about 250 scientists (and growing) in 2008 to the over 400 scientists who spoke out in 2007. The over 650 dissenting scientists are more than 12 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers.
The U.S. Senate report is the latest evidence of the growing groundswell of scientific opposition rising to challenge the UN and Gore. Full Report Set To Be Released in the Next 24 Hours – Stay Tuned…

A hint of what the upcoming report contains:

“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” - Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.

“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical.” - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”

Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

“The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn’t listen to others. It doesn’t have open minds… I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,” - Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.

“The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC "are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.” - Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico

“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.

“Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will.” – . Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ.

“After reading [UN IPCC chairman] Pachauri's asinine comment [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it's hard to remain quiet.” - Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological Society's Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review.

“For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?" - Geologist Dr. David Gee the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.

“Gore prompted me to start delving into the science again and I quickly found myself solidly in the skeptic camp…Climate models can at best be useful for explaining climate changes after the fact.” - Meteorologist Hajo Smit of Holland, who reversed his belief in man-made warming to become a skeptic, is a former member of the Dutch UN IPCC committee.

“Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.” - Atmospheric physicist James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh.

“Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense…The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” - Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.

“CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another….Every scientist knows this, but it doesn’t pay to say so…Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver’s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.” - Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.

“The [global warming] scaremongering has its justification in the fact that it is something that generates funds.” - Award-winning Paleontologist Dr. Eduardo Tonni, of the Committee for Scientific Research in Buenos Aires and head of the Paleontology Department at the University of La Plata. # #

In addition, the report will feature new peer-reviewed scientific studies and analyses refuting man-made warming fears and a heavy dose of inconvenient climate developments. (See Below: Study: Half of warming due to Sun! –Sea Levels Fail to Rise? - Warming Fears in 'Dustbin of History')

The Senate Minority Report is an update of 2007’s blockbuster U.S. Senate Minority Report of over 400 dissenting scientists. See here: This new report will contain the names, quotes and analyses of literally hundreds of additional international scientists who publicly dissented from man-made climate fears in just 2008 alone. The chorus of scientific voices skeptical grow louder as a steady stream of peer-reviewed studies, analyses and real world data challenge the UN and former Vice President Al Gore's claims that the "science is settled" and there is a "consensus." The original 2007 U.S. Senate report is available here: Full Report Set To Be Released in the Next 24 Hours – Stay Tuned…

Meanwhile, while the UN climate conference is in session here in Poznan, the bad scientific news for promoters of man-made climate alarm just keeps rolling in. Below is a very small sampling of very inconvenient developments for Gore, the United Nations, and their promoters in the mainstream media. Peer-reviewed studies, analyses, and prominent scientists continue to speak out to refute climate fears. The data presented below is just from the past week.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=2158072e-802a-23ad-45f0-274616db87e6

Legal? Illinois Lawmakers Strip Gov Powers?

OK everybody, think. Is it in any way legal for state lawmakers to make a new law to punish the potentially unethical conversations of a Governor?

If the majority of lawmakers believe this particular Governor acted outside his Constitutional duties, why don't they issue impeachment papers and start the impeachment process?

Why change the law mid-stream, a law which would then apply to all future Governors who did nothing unethical and may not during their terms of elected office?

Do the lawmakers alter the law whenever one or more among themselves may do something unethical?

Now as far as speculating about Barack Obama and/or the Obama camp those are fair game, but should be kept separate from each other.

Obama may not have had any private conversation with the Illinois Governor at this point in time. He may have had conversations in the past during the time period between when he was nominated by the Democrat Party in convention and his election as President. So far it has not been shown Obama had personal conversations with Blag since his election.


Union Official Allegedly Liaison Between Governor, Obama Team

By Alec MacGillis
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 10, 2008; Page A08

Among the revelations contained in the complaint brought against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich yesterday was the description of an official with the Service Employees International Union acting as an apparent intermediary between the governor and Barack Obama's camp in discussions over Obama's Senate seat.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/09/AR2008120903057.html

Clinton Obama Choice SOS

We considered this thought the instant Hillary Clinton's name was rumored under consideration for any Cabinet position.

What do the Clintons have on Obama?
What experience does Hillary have to run State? Camille Paglia

...As for Obama's appointment of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, what sense does that make except within parochial Democratic politics? Awarding such a prize plum to Hillary may be a sop to her aggrieved fan base, but what exactly are her credentials for that position? Aside from being a mediocre senator (who, contrary to press reports, did very little for upstate New York), Hillary has a poor track record as both a negotiator and a manager. And of course both Clintons constantly view the world through the milky lens of their own self-interest. Well, it's time for Hillary to put up or shut up. If she gets as little traction in world affairs as Condoleezza Rice has, Hillary will be flushed down the rabbit hole with her feckless husband and effectively neutralized as a future presidential contender. If that's Obama's clever plan, is it worth the gamble? The secretary of state should be a more reserved, unflappable character -- not a drama queen who, even in her acceptance speech, morphed into three different personalities in the space of five minutes.

Given Obama's elaborate deference to the Clintons, beginning with his over-accommodation of them at the Democratic convention in August, a nagging question has floated around the Web: What do the Clintons have on him? No one doubts that the Clinton opposition research team was turning over every rock in its mission to propel Hillary into the White House. There's an information vacuum here that conspiracy theorists have been rushing to fill.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/12/10/hillary_mumbai/

But we dismissed the potential the Clintons had anything of import on Obama like an extramarital affair, dual citizenship, or anything of any real impact on Obama. In fact, if they have anything, we can believe insiders have had it first, and passed it on to the Clintons some how, some way.

Notice we've posted previously about those little known entities with mega-influence on our government.

Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg Group.

We've also exclusively that we can tell informed of Carl Bernstein's observation during the Democrat Primaries before Obama claimed the nomination of that party that the Clintons were using "psychological warfare" against Barack Obama.

We would not put it past the Clintons to use more psychological warfare and internal inside info on the people behind the scenes, behind the curtain.

That would include hinting if Obama isn't complying with what the Clintons desire, some role for at least Hillary, the Clintons will expose the entities behind the 'machine.'

Such wouldn't be surprising since Bill Clinton is well-known to be in the "know" about the workings of secretive groups as not only was Clinton a Rhodes Scholar, he noted his mentor as the author of Tragedy and Hope. Carroll Quigley.


Bill Clinton Tragedy and Hope

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bill+clinton+tragedy+and+hope&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=


Dr. Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope reveals a Call by Cecil Rhodes for an “American Union” J.R. / Jones Report | May 30, 2008

...” Clinton specifically referenced Dr. Quigley in his autobiography, Bill Clinton- My Life, when he wrote, “Quigley’s insights had a particularly lasting impact… (so) from the 1992 campaign through my two terms in office, I quoted Professor Quigley’s line often (Clinton: 77-78).”...

...
According to Dr. Quigley, “ by the middle 1890's Rhodes had a personal income of at least a million pounds sterling a year (then about five million dollars) which was spent so freely for his mysterious purposes…his desire to federate the English-speaking peoples and to bring all the habitable portions of the world under their control…leaving part of his great fortune to fund the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford in order to spread the English ruling class tradition throughout the English-speaking world as (his mentor Professor at Oxford) Ruskin had wanted (Tragedy and Hope: 130-131).” It is interesting to note that former President Bill Clinton was a recipient of Rhodes Scholarship in 1968 along with extremely powerful and prominent individuals from predominantly the two political party paradigm including but not limited to Dean Rusk in 1931, U.S. Secretary of State, 1961-1969, in 1951 Richard N. Gardner U.S. Ambassador and CFR Director, in 1968 Strobe Talbott, American diplomat U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (1994-2001) and Time Magazine Editor-at-Large, Foreign Affairs journalist and President of the Brookings Institution, and in 1973 Richard N. Haass President of the Council on Foreign Relations and Director of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State, 2001-2003 (http://www.americanrhodes.org/). All of these individuals are members of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Dr. Quigley exposed their matrix of complete control over individuals and society:

It is increasingly clear that, in the twentieth century, the expert will replace ... the democratic voter in control of the political system. Hopefully, the elements of choice and freedom may survive for the ordinary individual in that he may be free to make a choice between two opposing political groups (even if these groups have little policy choice within the parameters of policy established by the experts) and he may have the choice to switch his economic support from one large unit to another. But, in general, his freedom and choice will be controlled within very narrow alternatives by the fact that he will be numbered from birth and followed, as a number, through his educational training, his required military or other public service, his tax contributions, his health and medical requirements, and his final retirement and death benefits (Tragedy and Hope: 866).

Perhaps, this is the reason why a third party candidate has never won a presidential election in the history of the United States. Just as importantly, Dr. Quigley attested to the forces that have controlled and continue to control England and the United States:...

http://www.jonesreport.com/article/05_08/30quigley.html


Barack Obama's Hope in the Heartland

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/HopePodcast/


Much like we said... and as well, it would be the same no matter which of the nominees were elected as President. Just look at the administration of past presidents.

Barack Obama: The CFR's man
Posted: November 11, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

© 2008

As I watched the press conference on Friday given by President-elect Barack Obama, I asked myself, "How did this 47-year-old African-American with no executive experience and only three years in the Senate become the most powerful political leader in the entire world?" All I had to do was look at the panoply of Washington Wise Men standing in back of him to understand how all of this happened.

As Carroll Quigley revealed in his remarkable book, "Tragedy and Hope," the financial powers in America control both major political parties, and they choose who will run for president. They generally prefer a center-left president with liberal social views, but occasionally, as in the case of Reagan, they will get a center-right man who will be surrounded by the usual members of the Council on Foreign Relations.

These same interests managed to get Woodrow Wilson into the White House by dividing the Republicans. Once Wilson was in, they got both the Federal Reserve System and the income tax passed by Congress. The man who kept Wilson in line was Col. Edward Mandell House, a Rockefeller plant whose book, "Philip Dru: Administrator," clearly showed that he believed in a socialist system led by a Mussolini-type leader.

The Council was formed after World War I by the financial powers to make sure that they could control American foreign policy by controlling the presidency. After Wilson, the Republicans made a comeback with Warren Harding who died mysteriously while in office. Vice President Calvin Coolidge then became president. Herbert Hoover succeeded him in 1929, just in time for the Stock Market crash and the start of the Great Depression caused by the Federal Reserve's tight money policies. The major financial interests had gotten out of the market before the crash and were able to pick up the pieces at bargain prices. In fact, it was during the Depression that the Rockefellers were able to build Rockefeller Center.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=80686

Inventor New Green Car Used Elsewhere

Segway Inventor Focusing on Green Cars


http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/872/

Speaker Speaks Automakers Language Let's Make a Deal

Speaker Nancy Pelosi: whatever she's saying, she's learning the language of the automakers.

Let's make a deal.

she may be okay with bailing out the 3 big automakers?

Where is the strength of the American public in response to our elected officials falling for the pleas of the 3 big automakers who seek millions to prop up their failures in design, technology, and innovations?

The backbone of our country? Cars that still rust, are designed to consume the maximum amount of fuel and after a mere few days of use go down in value some thousands of dollars?

We say no to this latest gimmick to bail out "FAILURES."

why won't you?

What is it about the Constitution people in Congress don't understand?

Nowhere in that document are the words: distribute taxpayers' hard earned monies to unconstitutional programs, gimmicks, bailouts, financial crisis, school districts, etc.

There are a few specified duties and obligations of Congress, with protection of our unalienable rights and security of our nation paramount among them.

Pelosi and anyone else who continues down this road to bailout failures have not learned from us because we have not spoken enmass.

It's about time we sent the message to Congress. Retract what you've done now, and no more money to jumpstart the economy.

The economy is so sporadic for a number of reasons. Among those are the so-called free-trade agreements with other countries that are not ratified per the Constitution as treaties.

Recently, Mika Brezinski of Morning Joe asked: what are we producing in this country? Is there any manufacturing left? The guest was actually speechless for a few moments. He gave a non-answer since he couldn't name anything, not a single item that was solely manufactured in this country - such as a new and useful widget - the country exclusively produces for itself and the rest of the world.

Not a single item was named.

What happened to innovation? It's not dead, but Congress is so intent on keeping their seats next election in a mere two years for themselves (largely by receiving money from lobbyists) they ignore everyone except the big donors to their campaigns.

Meanwhile, innovation by anybody else is ignored.

Segway inventor builds electric car
Submitted by acohill on Mon, 11/10/2008 - 08:53.

Up in New Hampshire, a new electric vehicle is undergoing road tests. New Hampshire is not normally counted as one of the big auto-producing states, but the move to electric vehicles is likely to bring some new players into the field. As a side issue, the government might have more impact by giving a few million dollars to every firm in the U.S. working on electric vehicle technology rather than trying to bail out the high cost Detroit manufacturers.

Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway two wheel electric vehicle, is now road-testing a small electric car powered by batteries, with a Stirling engine that recharges the batteries as needed and can also run the heater and defroster. The Stirling engine runs on almost any kind of combustible fuel, including gas, diesel fuel, and biofuels. Kamen has stayed away from the more complicated hybrid designs that use both a gas engine and an electric motor to propel the car. In Kamen's design, the electric motor does all the propulsion, just like Chevrolet's Volt design.

http://www.designnine.com/news/node/1249


Read the following opinion which is right on target:

I worked for EDS when it was owned by GM. It was an $85,000/yr IT job. They were making plans to move 28,000 IT jobs to India, which they did. IBM did the same thing at the same time. Offshoring is the root cause of our economic problems. I am unemployable due to being a software engineer for 20+ years. GM contributed to the fact that many US citizens can not buy the products the make by sending jobs to Mexico, China, and India. Let them fail as they drag our country to failure. We need something to put US jobs in the US performed by US citizens; Why bail them out for contributing to our economic problems in the first place? IBM sold the PC to Communist China! Bush wanted India to program the software for our undersea communications and the Saudis to do port security. Are we nuts?

Posted By: LaRayaAsul | November 23, 2008 at 06:34 PM

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/1108/Pelosi_Not_helping_the_auto_industry_is_not_an_option.html


Not only have we outsourced the auto Industry, steel production, our U.S. based companies outsource IT jobs, even call-centers are outsourced.

Now that would all be just fine, if these same companies did not receive tax-breaks from the federal government, state governments, and local governments for years and years.

Once the tax exemptions and abatements run out, the company shuts down, and moves somewhere else for a certain amount of years of new tax breaks.

The public must be so numbed by all of this they simply don't want to wake up and shout from the street corners of every small town and large city and cow pasture and field:

This free wheel deal stops dead in its tracks now. Let them all go bankrupt, and the market will determine what new product somebody will rush into production.

Net the Truth Online

Democrats agree to $14 billion temporary fix for Big 3
By Jim Puzzanghera | Washington Bureau
December 6, 2008
Congressional Democratic leaders agreed Friday night to a stopgap compromise to keep the Big Three U.S. automakers afloat into early next year by diverting about $14 billion from an existing fund designated to retool their factories to make more fuel-efficient cars, according to senior aides.

The deal would provide General Motors, Ford and Chrysler with only a portion of the $34 billion they say they need for a turnaround, but it would give them enough to keep operating while a broader agreement is negotiated.

The move still needs support from some Republicans to get through the Senate and the approval of the White House. But President George W. Bush has been calling for help for the automakers to come from the Energy Department advanced technology fund. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has strongly resisted using the fund, but her decision to relent apparently has sealed a deal to keep the three companies from running out of cash before March 31.

Pelosi was swayed by Friday morning's release of stunning new unemployment figures—the worst month in 34 years. Congressional aides cautioned there were still details to work out, including agreement by the White House to quickly replenish the energy fund.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-sat-auto-bailout-1206-dec06,0,5185536.story