'STEALTH GOVERNMENT" TELLING CO2 LIES TO DESTROY AMERICA, While you were sleeping

By Alan Caruba Sunday, March 29, 2009

My friend, the internationally famed climatologist, Dr. S. Fred Singer, calls them “the CO2 wars.” It is the last ditch attempt by the Greens, under the aegis of the Obama administration, to declare carbon dioxide a pollutant and thus open the door to its regulation.

Singer says such regulation “would be the equivalent of an atomic bomb directed at the U.S. economy—all without any scientific justification.”

I am increasingly of the opinion that the main goal of the Obama administration through CO2 regulation, exploding deficits, punishing taxation, and any other means at their disposal is the destruction of the economy and the complete control of impoverished Americans.

Governmental gangsterism

This is an administration that exists to impose an Orwellian socialist utopia after the smokescreen clears.

When it comes to CO2, Obama, his so-called science advisors, and the Environmental Protection Agency are all lying. It is governmental gangsterism.

As reported in The Wall Street Journal, “The Environmental Protection Agency has sent the White House a proposed finding that carbon dioxide is a danger to public health, a step that could trigger a clampdown on emissions of so-called greenhouse gases across a wide swath of the economy.”

Here are a few things you need to keep in mind about carbon dioxide:

• CO2 is not a “pollutant.” It is a trace gas necessary for all life of Earth because it is essential to the growth of all vegetation.
• Without CO2 all vegetation—grasses, forests, jungles, crops such as wheat, corn and rice—dies. Then herbivores die. Then you die.
• The CO2 produced by human industry or activity is a miniscule fraction of a percentage of greenhouse gases. It constitutes a mere 0.038% of the atmosphere.
• The oceans emit 96.5% of all greenhouse gases, holding and releasing CO2 as it has down through the millennia of Earth’s existence.
• In past millennia, CO2 levels were often much higher than the present.
• CO2 levels rise hundreds of years after temperature rise on planet Earth.
• The Sun is the primary source of warmth on Earth. Rising CO2 is an effect of global warming, not a cause.
• Both global warming and cooling are natural phenomenon over which humans have no control.
• The Earth is not currently warming. It has been cooling for a decade and likely to continue for at least another twenty years or longer. If a new Ice Age is triggered, it will last at least 10,000 years.
• Polar ice is now at record levels and still growing.

If you had a choice, would you prefer a warmer or colder Earth?

And consider this, if only the United States was to significantly cut its CO2 emissions, how much effect, if any, would that have in a world where most other nations, including China and India, have no intention of doing so? Both are exempt from the UN Kyoto Protocol. The answer is zero!

The EPA proposal is not about science. It is about power and it is about money. As the Wall Street Journal noted, “The administration has proposed a cap-and-trade system that could raise $646 billion by 2019 through government auctions of emission allowances.”

The federal government, though the aegis of the EPA, would have control over the destinies of an estimated 13,000 facilities if this regulatory obscenity were to become law.

“Coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and domestic industries, such as energy-intensive paper, cement, fertilizer, steel and glass manufacturers, worry that increased cost burdens imposed by climate-change laws will put them at a severe competitive disadvantage to their international peers that aren’t bound by similar environmental rules.”

Such industries would flee the United States as the most toxic place on Earth in which to do business.

This would be the fulfillment of the Obama administration’s goal and explains in part why this new assault on science, industry, and common sense has been put forth by the EPA.

One of the best sites for information about carbon dioxide is ilovemyco2.com
I recommend you visit and browse through its extensive data.


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A ROOKIE PRESIDENT

By: Marion Valentine

March 31, 2009 at 3:16 pm

A ROOKIE PRESIDENT

By Thomas Sowell

Someone once said that, for every rookie you have on your starting team in the National Football League, you will lose a game. Somewhere, at some time during the season, a rookie will make a mistake that will cost you a game.

We now have a rookie President of the United States and, in the dangerous world we live in, with terrorist nations going nuclear, just one rookie mistake can bring disaster down on this generation and generations yet to come.

Barack Obama is a rookie in a sense that few other Presidents in American history have ever been. It is not just that he has never been President before. He has never had any position of major executive responsibility in any kind of organization where he was personally responsible for the outcome.

Other first-term Presidents have been governors, generals, cabinet members or others in positions of personal responsibility. A few have been senators, like Barack Obama, but usually for longer than Obama, and had not spent half their few years in the senate running for President.

What is even worse than making mistakes is having sycophants telling you that you are doing fine when you are not. In addition to all the usual hangers-on and supplicants for government favors that every President has, Barack Obama has a media that will see no evil, hear no evil and certainly speak no evil.

They will cheer him on, no matter what he does, short of first-degree murder– and they would make excuses for that. Even former Reagan speech writer Peggy Noonan has gushed over President Obama and even crusty Bill O’Reilly has been impressed by Obama’s demeanor.

There is no sign that President Obama has impressed the Russians, the Iranians or the North Koreans, except by his rookie mistakes– and that is a dangerous way to impress dangerous people.

What did his televised overture to the Iranians accomplish, except to reassure them that he was not going to do a damn thing to stop them from getting a nuclear bomb? It is a mistake that can go ringing down the corridors of history.

Future generations who live in the shadow of that nuclear threat may wonder what we were thinking about, putting our lives– and theirs– in the hands of a rookie because we liked his style and symbolism?

In the name of “change,” Barack Obama is following policies so old that this generation has never heard of them– certainly not in most of our educational institutions, where history has been replaced by “social studies” or other politically correct courses.

Seeking deals with our adversaries, behind the backs of our allies? France did that at Munich back in 1938. They threw Czechoslovakia to the wolves and, less than two years later, Hitler gobbled up France anyway.

This year, President Obama’s attempt to make a backdoor deal with the Russians, behind the backs of the NATO countries, was not only rejected but made public by the Russians– a sign of contempt and a warning to our allies not to put too much trust in the United States.

Barack Obama is following a long practice among those on the left of being hard on our allies and soft on our enemies. One of our few allies in the Middle East, the Shah of Iran, was a whipping boy for many in the American media, who vented their indignation at his regime– which now, in retrospect, seems almost benign compared to the hate-filled fanatics and international terrorism sponsors who now rule that country.

However much Barack Obama has proclaimed his support for Israel, his first phone call as President of the United States was to Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority.

Our oldest and staunchest ally, Britain, has been downgraded by President Obama’s visibly less impressive reception of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, compared to the way that previous Presidents over the past two generations have received British Prime Ministers. President Obama’s sending the bust of Winston Churchill in the White House back to the British embassy at about the same time was either a rookie mistake or another snub.

We can lose some very big games with this rookie.

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LIBERALS WAKE UP, You worship a false idol

By: Marion Valentine

March 31, 2009 at 10:06 am

WE ARE NOT RADICALS

By Mark Harvey Tuesday, March 31, 2009

It never ceases to amaze me that when anyone dares disagree with your basic and average liberal democrat, whether they be and R, a D or some flavor of an Independent, the ones daring to disagree are classified as “radicals.”

Nothing could be further from the Truth. As in Islam, the only “radical” Muslim is the Muslim not practicing Islam. Those that are practicing Islam are the ones advocating rape, murder, torture, death to the infidels, etc, etc, etc. The same applies to the criminal elements in America that have convinced a great many people that the United States Constitution doesn’t go far enough in granting absolute power over the serfs.

The United States Constitution is explicit - the federal government is pretty much toothless with the internal affairs of the nation, plain and simple. I know that is an over simplification but that’s how it is. What we have currently, built upon past usurpations of the constitution by unconstitutional federal statutes and those that wear their black nightgowns to work (calling themselves judges), is an unconstitutional federal government. The United States Government has already been overthrown. That much is obvious.

Why else would it be that when anyone asks about the constitutionality of a certain law or policy, the person asking the question is attacked as being a radical or must be sniffing glue? It would be ideal if the ones asking the questions were given chapter and verse of the constitution where the authority of the law or policy is reconciled with. Seeing that this isn’t going to happen, we must take our country back from the usurpers of the USG and our beloved constitution.

All of the Neo Marxists must be rounded up, placed in prison or deported to the socialist nation of their choice. If I wanted to live in a socialist nation, I would have moved to France decades ago. Why do the socialists always come to a thriving nation and try to rebuild the failed policies of socialism and communism of which, their ideologies and principles and practices have been dismal failures everywhere they have been tried?

Death to the ideologies of Neo Marxism and may it rot in hell where it belongs.

No, the radicals are the Neo Marxists, socialists and communists in our nation because not one single tenet of either can be reconciled with our United States Constitution. Not one. Prove us wrong - it isn’t possible but do try.

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PALIN: WE WON’T SELL OUR BIRTHRIGHT FOR FEDERAL DOLLARS

By: Marion Valentine

March 30, 2009 at 5:33 pm

Palin: We Won’t ‘Sell Our Birthright’ for Federal $

Monday, March 30, 2009 1:15 PM

By: David A. Patten Article Font Size

Warning that anyone accepting federal stimulus funds from Washington should “read the fine print,” Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is urging her fellow Alaskans not to “sell our birthright for short-term gain.”

Palin’s comments came in an opinion column defending her decision to reject close to a third of the $930 million in stimulus funds allocated for her state in the $787 million bill signed into law by President Obama.

Critics charge she is turning down the money to reinforce her conservative credentials and bolster a presumed 2012 presidential run – an accusation Palin’s representatives staunchly deny. In addition to Palin, GOP governors rejecting at least some federal stimulus funds include: Texas Gov. Rick Perry, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindahl.

“Shovel ready or digging a hole?” is the title of the Palin opinion piece published this weekend’s Anchorage Daily News.

Palin acknowledges federal stimulus dollars are “tempting,” but also says she “must consider whether they create sustainability, help develop our resources, reduce dependency on Washington, and all without mortgaging our kids’ futures.”

Accepting the federal largesse, Palin says, would hurt Alaska’s long-term future. She adds that as governor she is required to certify that the federal dollars would boost the economy.

“Unfortunately,” she writes, “a disproportionate percentage of the federal package available to Alaska would increase government operations. It’s a stretch to certify that more spending on more bureaucracy actually grows an economy.”

Palin says accepting temporary federal dollars would just make the state’s finances worse in the long run.

“When stimulus money runs out in two years, who will pay for the expanded government programs, when Alaska currently has a budget shortfall of over a billion dollars? My administration will not willingly and knowingly dig a hole for Alaskans to fill under this enormous, debt-ridden, Washington spending plan,” she writes.

With the national debt already over $11 trillion, Palin says it’s a mistake to view the federal funds as “free money.”

Palin also provided several examples of what she called “federal intrusion” associated with the stimulus plan:

# Alaska communities, she says, would have to adopt international energy codes. “These standards should be locally determined, not federally mandated,” she writes.

# If Alaska were to accept additional money for unemployment benefits, it would have to extend the eligibility period. “This federal involvement locks us into government dependency for longer periods,” she states.

# Matching funds are required for some federal programs, she states. “Alaskans must read the fine print on these federal mandates, because certain allocations also require state-matching funds.”

Palin concludes, “When Alaska was granted statehood, it was with the expectation that our independent, innovative spirit and rich resources would largely sustain us, rather than depending on federal government. Creating more dependence on Washington steers us away from Alaska’s magnificent potential and destiny, and that, to me, is a problem.

“My job is to help Alaskans count the cost for the long term, not sell our birthright for short-term gain. Alaskans must acknowledge that if we dig a fiscal hole, it will be filled by our families and businesses. Reliance on Washington is not our only option. We could exercise fiscal responsibility and prudent planning, develop our resources, energize Alaskans, and revitalize our spirit. We are up to the challenge. This is the best lesson we can teach our children.”

Palin added, however, that she won’t block attempts to obtain federal dollars by circumventing her office.

“I’m approaching federal funds and mandates with caution, but won’t stand in the way of organizations or communities applying to the feds for funding their own expansions,” she wrote.

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ELECTING A CHILD TO BE PRESIDENT

By: Marion Valentine

March 30, 2009 at 10:48 am

Electing a Child to be President

By Alan Caruba Tuesday, March 17, 2009

The last time America elected a young President it was John F. Kennedy, age 44 when he took office.

The result was the Bay of Pigs fiasco involving an ill-fated invasion of Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro and the decision to step in for the defeated French in Vietnam. Other comparable decisions were cut short by his assassination. We remember him mostl y for his stirring inaugural speech, but his choice of Lyndon Johnson as his Vice President gave us the escalation of the Vietnam War and Great Society social spending that proved to be a waste of billions.

Now we have a President who is 47, a very young age to be running the greatest economic and military power in the world. He had, on taking office, already written two autobiographical memoirs, but people are slowly becoming aware of the fact that there is virtually no paper trail by which to measure him. His birth certificate and legal standing to be President are in dispute. Records from his college days are hidden from view.

His record as a one-term Illinois legislator is replete with “present” votes that revealed little about his political positions. He did not even wait to complete a full term as a U.S. Senator before almost immediately beginning to run for the highest office in the land.

In term s of political leadership, he is a child among grownups and a petulant one at that.

His first months in office have demonstrated an astonishing lack of judgment regarding those who he appointed to office, many of whom were revealed to be tax cheats and others who have since demonstrated a distinct lack of competence or preparation for positions of critical importance. Why, for example, would he appoint a longtime political operative like Leon Panetta to be the Director of the CIA?

His initial policy decisions and statements panicked Wall Street and were it not for grownups like Ben Bernacke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and the steps taken by President Bush prior to his taking office, the economy might have suffered even greater damage. His decisions in office, however, are widely decried as a repetition of all the errors made by the FDR administration that prolonged the Great Depression.

While babbling endlessly about “energy independence” he has again banned any offshore exploration an d drilling for oil and natural gas. His preferences for solar and wind energy ignore the fact that, while heavily subsidized by taxpayer funding, these two “clean” energies provide barely one percent of the electricity the nation requires and are the two least efficient and impractical means of generating power.

While deploring “earmarks” he signed an “imperfect” stimulus bill that contained nine thousand of them.

Foreign policy under President Obama has been characterized by ignoring the human rights and security needs of nations like Poland, Tibet, and Israel. Despite more than a half century of resisting the communist domination of Cuba, he has softened that and is likely to abandon it.

He has insisted on a swift withdrawal of troops from Iraq despite t he obvious need to provide vital protection against the forces that would undermine its newly minted democracy. He insists on transferring troops to Afghanistan in a war that few regard as anything other than a prolonged insurgency with little prospect of a successful outcome.

Obama may be our first President with Attention Deficit Disorder. He went from declaring we faced an economic “catastrophe” to saying the economy was still strong in just over a month. Maybe that accounts for his dependence on the TelePrompter which, we’re told, goes everywhere he does.

We’re watching an already long list of fatally flawed decisions and I suggest that we are looking at a combination of his socialist ideology, his youth and inexperience, and a narcissi sm that cannot tolerate criticism no matter its source.

His greatest support comes from a younger generation of Americans with virtually no knowledge of the nation’s history, no grasp of the economic issues affecting it, and no more political insight than to rely on “hope and change” without understanding that these are not, nor ever were sufficient to the task of being in charge of a great nation with great challenges.

Politically, emotionally, and intellectually, Barack Hussein Obama is a child. This has become increasingly evident with every passing day.

It is not too soon to demand those hidden documents. It is not too soon for the Democrats in Congress to realize that supporti ng his policies represents a grave danger to the nation and their reelection. It is not too soon to begin working to neutralize him by electing a Republican controlled Congress in 2010.

The military’s meritocracy is based on experience that comes with age and proven leadership. We require that our police act in a disciplined and mature way when dealing with law-breakers. We don’t put children in charge of our schools.

We don’t believe or support people who regard carbon dioxide—vital to all life on Earth—to be a “pollutant” that must be regulated and used to raise billions for a profligate government while wrecking its economy.

“The secret of eternal youth is arrested development,” said Alice Roosevelt Longworth, a keen observer of life and the politics of the nation’s capitol. She passed away in 1980, but she would reaffirm the truth of that opinion if she was watching the Obama administration at work.

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"STEALTH GOVERNMENT" ATTEMPTING TO AMMEND THE CONSTITUTION" While you were sleeping

By: Marion Valentine

March 29, 2009 at 10:07 pm

This version: Introduced in House. This is the original text of the bill as it was written by its sponsor and submitted to the House for consideration. This is the latest version of the bill available on this website.

HJ 5 IH

111th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. J. RES. 5

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 6, 2009

Mr. SERRANO introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

‘Article–

‘The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.’.

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SILENCING CONSERVATIVES

By: Marion Valentine

March 29, 2009 at 10:42 am

THE PUPPETMASTER SLEAZY ATTEMPTS TO SILENCE CONSERVATIVES

The article below outlines the sleazy attempts by Obama’s Puppet Master George Soros, and the Socialist organizations he sponsors to use distortions and outright lies to try to strong arm advertisers
into pulling advertising from the Bill O’Reilly show on FOX news. From my experience with chatting with liberals, and the comments they leave on my posts, and in e-mails, they think only they should have freedom of speech.

The indoctrination of the densely populated areas of northeastern, northern, and western states into accepting Socialist ideology and that someone or something else is responsible for their situation. This demoralization process is complete in the areas mentioned above, creating a mentally immature “victim” mentality that must have a NANNY to care for them, because they are no longer able to think or do for themselves. This type of “group think” has been harder to push in the rural areas, and in the heartland of the country, because people in these areas are used to thinking for themselves, looking out for themselves and their neighbors.

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.”
(Theodore Roosevelt)

Hopefully more of the Silent Majority will speak up and take action to stop this slide into Global Socialist/Marxist Domination, which is shredding our Constitution, bankrupting our country, and enslaving our future generations with debt that can never be repaid.

“That to secure these rights Governments are Instituted among men. Deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and institute new Government.”
(quote from the Declaration of Independence)

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” (Abraham Lincoln)

By Matthew Vadum Sunday, March 29, 2009

An affiliate of the George Soros-funded think tank and pressure group, Center for American Progress (CAP), has emulated the sleazy Media Matters for America by becoming a media critic.

Claiming to be outraged at the aggressive news-gathering techniques of Bill O’Reilly’s team, the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) lobbying organization that grew out of CAP, rejoiced Friday after getting UPS to stop advertising on “The O’Reilly Factor.” The Fund released this statement on its Think Progress website:

In response to our Stop Supporting The O’Reilly Harassment Machine campaign, UPS told us yesterday that it was investigating whether to continue supporting O’Reilly’s show. “We are sensitive to the type of television programming where our messages and presence are associated and continually review choices to affect future decisions,” spokeswoman Susan Rosenberg told us.

Today UPS announced it will stop advertising on O’Reilly’s show. Here is the statement UPS emailed out just moments ago:

Thank you for sending an e-mail expressing concern about UPS advertising during the Bill O’Reilly show on FOX News. We do consider such comments as we review ad placement decisions which involve a variety of news, entertainment and sports programming. At this time, we have no plans to continue advertising during this show. [emphasis in thinkprogress.org post]

I regret I missed this anti-Bill O’Reilly campaign until it struck gold. The campaign also claims to have elicited responses from Capital One, AT&T, and Ford.

I’ve never been a fan of ambush-style interviews but sometimes in the news-gathering process the approach is justified as a last resort. Surely nothing the O’Reilly team has done is any worse than anything done by myriad leftist commentators such as Michael Moore and journalists such as Geraldo Rivera and the team at “60 Minutes.”

The whole campaign by the CAP Action Fund seems like a cheap publicity stunt that has the added benefit of hurting the revenues of a prominent right-leaning TV commentator perhaps with the ultimate goal of removing him from the airwaves.

Incidentally, both CAP and Media Matters are funded by Soros’s Democracy Alliance, a billionaire’s club that is funding a drive to turn America into a European-style socialist country.

CAP is a well-funded machine that has aspirations of becoming a “Heritage Foundation” of the left. It has an approximately $25 million annual budget and took in $64,681,960 in donations from 2003 through 2006, according to its tax returns.

The CAP Action Fund, 501(c)(4), may be legally separate from CAP, a 501(c)(3), but both have roughly the same goals: pushing liberal, Big Government
policies.

CAP funds the CAP Action Fund directly. It gave $1,796,235 in “grants” to the CAP Action Fund in 2007 alone, according to the CAP 2007 tax return.

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UNITED NATIONS "CLIMATE CHANGE" PLAN

By: Marion Valentine

March 27, 2009 at 5:46 pm

UNITED NATIONS, “CLIMATE CHANGE” PLAN

Friday, March 27, 2009
By George Russell

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A United Nations document on "climate change" that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.

Those and other results are blandly discussed in a discretely worded United Nations "information note" on potential consequences of the measures that industrialized countries will likely have to take to implement the Copenhagen Accord, the successor to the Kyoto Treaty, after it is negotiated and signed by December 2009. The Obama administration has said it supports the treaty process if, in the words of a U.S. State Department spokesman, it can come up with an "effective framework" for dealing with global warming.

The 16-page note, obtained by FOX News, will be distributed to participants at a mammoth negotiating session that starts on March 29 in Bonn, Germany, the first of three sessions intended to hammer out the actual commitments involved in the new deal.

In the stultifying language that is normal for important U.N. conclaves, the negotiators are known as the "Ad Hoc Working Group On Further Commitments For Annex I Parties Under the Kyoto Protocol." Yet the consequences of their negotiations, if enacted, would be nothing short of world-changing.
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/032709_informationnote.pdf

Getting that deal done has become the United Nations' highest priority, and the Bonn meeting is seen as a critical step along the path to what the U.N. calls an "ambitious and effective international response to climate change," which is intended to culminate at the later gathering in Copenhagen.

Just how ambitious the U.N.'s goals are can be seen, but only dimly, in the note obtained by FOX News, which offers in sparse detail both positive and negative consequences of the tools that industrial nations will most likely use to enforce the greenhouse gas reduction targets.

The paper makes no effort to calculate the magnitude of the costs and disruption involved, but despite the discreet presentation, makes clear that they will reverberate across the entire global economic system.


Among the tools that are considered are the cap-and-trade system for controlling carbon emissions that has been espoused by the Obama administration; "carbon taxes" on imported fuels and energy-intensive goods and industries, including airline transportation; and lower subsidies for those same goods, as well as new or higher subsidies for goods that are considered "environmentally sound."

Other tools are referred to only vaguely, including "energy policy reform," which the report indicates could affect "large-scale transportation infrastructure such as roads, rail and airports." When it comes to the results of such reform, the note says only that it could have "positive consequences for alternative transportation providers and producers of alternative fuels."

In the same bland manner, the note informs negotiators without going into details that cap-and-trade schemes "may induce some industrial relocation" to "less regulated host countries." Cap-and-trade functions by creating decreasing numbers of pollution-emission permits to be traded by industrial users, and thus pay more for each unit of carbon-based pollution, a market-driven system that aims to drive manufacturers toward less polluting technologies.

The note adds only that industrial relocation "would involve negative consequences for the implementing country, which loses employment and investment." But at the same time it "would involve indeterminate consequences for the countries that would host the relocated industries."

There are also entirely new kinds of tariffs and trade protectionist barriers such as those termed in the note as "border carbon adjustment"— which, the note says, can impose "a levy on imported goods equal to that which would have been imposed had they been produced domestically" under more strict environmental regimes.

Another form of "adjustment" would require exporters to "buy [carbon] offsets at the border equal to that which the producer would have been forced to purchase had the good been produced domestically."

The impact of both schemes, the note says, "would be functionally equivalent to an increased tariff: decreased market share for covered foreign producers." (There is no definition in the report of who, exactly, is "foreign.") The note adds that "If they were implemented fairly, such schemes would leave trade and investment patterns unchanged." Nothing is said about the consequences if such fairness was not achieved.

Indeed, only rarely does the "information note" attempt to inform readers in dollar terms of the impact of "spillover effects" from the potential policy changes it discusses. In a brief mention of consumer subsidies for fossil fuels, the note remarks that such subsidies in advanced economies exceed $60 billion a year, while they exceed $90 billion a year in developing economies."

But calculations of the impact of tariffs, offsets, or other subsidies is rare. In a reference to the impact of declining oil exports, the report says that Saudi Arabia has determined the loss to its economy at between $100 billion and $200 billion by 2030, but said nothing about other oil exporters.

One reason for the lack of detail, the note indicates, is that impact would vary widely depending on the nature and scope of the policies adopted (and, although the note does not mention it, on the severity of the greenhouse reduction targets).

But even when it does hazard a guess at specific impacts, the report seems curiously hazy. A "climate change levy on aviation" for example, is described as having undetermined "negative impacts on exporters of goods that rely on air transport, such as cut flowers and premium perishable produce," as well as "tourism services." But no mention is made in the note of the impact on the aerospace industry, an industry that had revenues in 2008 of $208 billion in the U.S. alone, or the losses the levy would impose on airlines for ordinary passenger transportation. (Global commercial airline revenues in 2008 were about $530 billion, and were already forecast to drop to an estimated $467 billion this year.)

In other cases, as when discussing the "increased costs of traditional exports" under a new environmental regime, the report confines itself to terse description. Changes in standards and labeling for exported goods, for example, "may demand costly changes to the production process." If subsidies and tariffs affect exports, the note says, the "economic and social consequences of dampening their viability may, for some countries and sectors, be significant."

Much depends, of course, on the extent to which harsher or more lenient greenhouse gas reduction targets demand more or less drastic policies for their achievement.

And, precisely because the Bonn meeting is a stage for negotiating those targets, the note is silent. Instead it suggests that more bureaucratic work is needed "to deepen the understanding of the full nature and scale of such impacts."

But outside the Bonn process, other experts have been much more blunt about the draconian nature of the measures they deem necessary to make "effective" greenhouse gas reductions.

In an influential but highly controversial paper called "Key Elements of a Global Deal on Climate Change," British economist Nicholas Lord Stern, formerly a high British Treasury official, has declared that industrial economies would need to cut their per capita carbon dioxide emissions by "at least 80% by 2050," while the biggest economies, like the U.S.'s, would have to make cuts of 90 percent.

Stern also calls for "immediate and binding" reduction targets for developed nations of 20 percent to 40 percent by 2020.

To meet Stern's 2050 goals, he says, among other things, "most of the world's electricity production will need to have been decarbonized."

Click here for Stern's paper.

By way of comparison, according to the U.S. Department Of Energy, roughly 72 percent of U.S. electrical power generation in 2007 was derived from burning fossil fuels, with just 6 percent coming from hydro-power and less than 3 percent from non-nuclear renewable and "other" sources. And even then, those "other" non-fossil sources included wood and biomass — which, when burned, are major emitters of carbon.



Click here to see the Department of Energy report.


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DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR

Posted By: Marion Valentine
March 27, 2009 at 11:06 am

DO U HEAR WHAT I HEAR

Did you hear it?
I heard it – did you?
You should have heard it and heard it loud and clear during the 179 million dollar inauguration celebrations.
And you should have been deafened by it when the horrific stimulus bill, the bail-outs, the massive budget and the printing of a trillion dollars passed.
Listen to what the powerful are telling you every day.

All of them - the president, congress, the big banks, Wall Street, the car manufacturers - They continue to say it - loud and clear – again and again.

Pay attention! Listen – they’re saying it again.

“LET THEM EAT CAKE”
“LET THEM EAT CAKE”.

For those of you a little rusty on historical references:

During the 1780’s, the French court of Louis the XVI enjoyed a lavish lifestyle financed by the taxes from their impoverished people. Only the peasants paid taxes.
Naturally - the ‘nobles’ were exempt from taxation. Year after year, the harvests were poor and the high cost of bread and other staples caused many peasants to die of starvation.
Queen Marie Antoinette, when told that the peasants were ‘restless’ because they ‘did not have enough bread’ she replied, “then let them eat cake”.

Hence the French revolution. The over taxed and starving people had had enough.

This is where we are in America now. All of this out-of control spending is bad enough but the real danger, the real and permanent change to our country is illegal immigration.
OUR COUNTRY IS CHANGING AND SLIPPING AWAY BEFORE OUR EYES.
IF WE DO NOTHING - 10 YEARS FROM NOW – YOU’LL THINK “HOW DID THIS HAPPEN”?

Honest, hard-working, middle class Americans are being squeezed into poverty.
Our backs – our work – our taxes funneled to the rich.
But not just the rich – our backs – our work – our taxes funneled to the “poor” and to illegal aliens.
The poor can stay home to feed and breed – while we’re out killing ourselves, working two and three jobs and watching our taxes go up and up.
Illegals flood in here; take our jobs; and suck our system dry. There are fewer and fewer dollars for the needs of American citizens. The illegals are ‘eating up’ our tax money. Illegals burden schools, welfare, housing, prisons, hospitals, and more and we’re paying for it all.
OUR TAXES ARE FINANCING OUR OWN DESTRUCTION.

Don’t you get it? Listen to what they are saying, “let them eat cake”. The Washington aristocrats know there’s nothing you can do about anything. Did they listen to the ‘people’ about that stimulus bill, about the bail-outs, about anything? No!! So, they certainly aren’t going to listen to us about amnesty – and that’s just over the horizon.
The aristocrats are convinced there’s nothing you can do. Amnesty is Obama’s next action. (Recently, Nancy Pelosi called illegal aliens “Patriots”).
Sure, call your elected aristocrat – it won’t work. Call them anyway just to aggravate them - but don’t expect change. You can call and e-mail your Senator or Representative until your eyes bleed – it won’t matter. They believe the voters are stupid – and we must be – why are any of these bums still in office and in office for decades?

No matter who is on the ballot – vote for someone else.
The Washington aristocrats laugh at the thought that you’ll vote them out of office. HA!! What’s your choice - an arrogant, corrupt politician with a ‘D’ behind his name or an arrogant, corrupt politician with an ‘R’ behind his name?
We certainly cannot stop voting - we must vote - but it’s not gonna change things rapidly enough to stop this amnesty which will be the final nail in the coffin of our country.
Amnesty will put so many foreign-born immigrants on the voting rolls – the middle-class working citizens will be out-voted and doomed. These new ‘legalized‘ ‘residents’ and America’s current welfare class will dominate and control the vote. And you better know they will vote to put their hands in the wallets of the middle class for even more taxes. The politicians will pander to this huge voting block – promising more and more entitlements – from the middle class ‘cookie jar’ - us. So what can we do? Read on.
The Washington aristocrats believe we are powerless. We can’t organize a newsworthy ‘million man march’ - they’re right about that. They know that
we million men don’t have time. Dammit - we’re working everyday - one and two jobs. The aristocrats take comfort in that - they count on it.
We’re not visible enough – we’re not in their faces, active, demonstrating. And ya know what, we can’t be. But, my fellow citizens of this beloved country - we don’t have to be – there is a way.

Think about what you’ve heard from Washington over the past few months. They need us to “spend money”. Washington aristocrats admit that “the economic health of America depends on the middle class spending money”. They want us to buy cars, appliances, furniture, clothes, and knick-knacks. Saving money is not what they really want us to do. (The middle class is not who they really want to protect, anyway.
Don’t listen to the lies they spew). They only need our money moving thru the economy.
To them, we’re just a big pocket book.
So let’s look at the power we do have – the real hard power.
While we still have some money left – before they suck us dry - let’s organize a nation-wide economic revolution. Let’s use our money like a weapon – a ‘pitchfork’, a ‘musket’.
LET’S ATTACK WITH IT. We can do this. Are you pissed off enough?

Yes we can! We can make those fat and financially-insulated pigs sit up and take notice.
We can make those cushy high-living aristocrats in Washington with their big pensions and
graft, sit up in their tax-payer paid arm chairs and get frightened – very frightened.

This will be easy. You don’t have to do anything: no demonstrations, no picketing, no letter writing. Threaten action with what you have in your wallet.
Time to cripple company after company until our voices are heard – until those national companies run crying to Washington. (What the hell – if a company faces bankruptcy they get our tax dollars anyway – what the hell is the difference?)

ROLLING BOYCOTTS. No signs to carry. No need to take time off from work.
No letters or petitions to write.
Just use – ACTUALLY - NOT USE – your dollars.
The internet will organize it for us.
All we need to do right now is begin to spread the word. Forward this info along. Just press that ‘send’ button to as many as you can. Once this gets to 1000 people then 10000 people – can a million be far behind? And once there – our economic revolution begins.
The sound of our wallets snapping shut - will be heard ‘round the world.

WE will be in charge. Not Washington controlling the economy, not Wall Street, not the banks. Listen up – world! Listen up Washington! The American consumer is in charge.
WE’RE DAMN MAD AND WE’RE FIGHTING BACK:

And here’s how: We make a list of national companies – fast food companies, department stores, grocery stores, gas stations, etc.
And we choose one store a month.
For instance – during the month of April – no purchases at XYX donut/coffee shop. Buy your caffeine fix from their competitor.
Next month – no purchases at their competitor
The next month – no purchases at ABC department store.

And so on

And we announce - in advance - to these businesses that we’re gonna do it.

Believe me – when Dunkin Donuts or Home Depot or Sears see their empty store for an entire month, our voices will finally be heard. These nation-wide stores have lobbying power and will get Washington’s ear ‘cause it’s for damn sure the aristocrats ain’t listening to you or me.

Add a company to this list. What company can get the ear of Washington quickly? What month should we begin? That’s it – that’s all we have to do.
You just have to check the blog once a month to see which store has been “Earmarked”.

To really have an impact – buy as little of anything and everything from any store - as possible. Next Christmas instead of the newest toy fad, give your children the priceless gift of patriotism and love of country. Give few gifts – if any. And explain to them why.
Tell them you and they are saving America for future children.

WE CAN DO THIS – WE MUST. AMERICA IS RUNNING OUT OF TIME

Our demands:

NO AMNESTY – NONE, NONE, NONE
NONE OF THE ‘BAILOUT’ MONEY FOR ANY ILLEGAL ALIEN’S MORTGAGE.
NOT ONE GOVERNMENT DOLLAR TO ILLEGAL ALIENS FOR ANYTHING.
NO SOCIAL SECURITY
NO HOUSING
NO FOOD STAMPS
NO MEDICAL CARE. NOTHING
ALL STORES MUST PLEDGE TO VERIFY THE CITIZENSHIP OR LEGAL RESIDENCY OF EVERY EMPLOYEE
ALL STORES MUST INFORM WASHINGTON THAT THEY SUPPORT OUR DEMANDS
AND – FINALLY – WASHINGTON MUST USE SOME OF THAT FAT STIMULUS PACKAGE TO BUILD THAT WALL ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER – NOW!!
SECURE OUR NATION - STOP THE FLOW – NOW.
(Hiring people for the wall - that would create jobs – wouldn’t it)?

Targeted stores must link arms with us and publicly inform Washington - “our tax dollars are for our ‘homegrowns’, ‘for our citizens’ – not for illegal aliens.

Dear fellow American, please don’t whine that ‘a boycott will affect your job or that your brother will be out of work’.
If we don’t stop the flood of low-wage workers, drug dealers, gang members, and welfare recipients from overtaking and overwhelming our country – you ain’t gonna have a job – neither will your kids or your grandkids.
Will boycotts of stores cause folks to lose their jobs? Perhaps. Perhaps not – we don’t know. But what we do know is “if we do nothing we will lose our country”.

Buy nothing!! Do not waiver. Stand tall for your country. Doesn’t matter if the car dealership is offering new cars for a dollar – do not buy!
Listen to what Washington is saying “we gotta get people buying again”. They need us to spend money. We do just the opposite.
Americans – this may be the last chance for our nation – it is being destroyed from without and within.
If we middle class citizens announce that we will stop buying and - when we do stop buying - watch what will happen. What do we have to lose?
Our cumulative dollars are an incredible power. Flex that greenback power!

Need your coffee? - then go to the mom & pop coffee shop. When we are targeting a national pharmacy chain – go to the local independent store. Need a stove? Go to an independent dealer. Oh, it’s gonna cost you $100.00 more at the independent appliance store? Would you rather give up that $100.00 now, - or do you want your grandchild to have to stand in line to beg (in Spanish) for a toilet-cleaning job?
We can change the course of our country.
Otherwise, we will lay on our deathbeds weeping for the impoverished 3rd world country we have left behind for our grandchildren – the beautiful country that used to be America.
Our million man dollars are power. Let’s flex our financial muscle. No more spending until our southern border is closed. Spend nothing. Donate nothing – except to those organizations which help or support our servicemen and women and their families.

Do not be embarrassed; do not apologize. There’s nothing wrong with standing up for our own citizens. Remember – illegals want our stuff and our government is letting them get it. Protect your over-taxed fellow Americans with this simple but effective rolling boycott. The hell with anyone who wants to demean us with ridiculous labels and names. (And – we all know those names).
(Remember that childhood taunt, “Sticks and stones…etc…”? Recite it – even to yourself – when the accusations begin).
Do not fear the ‘name’ someone calls you today. Would you rather be called “unemployed” and “broke” and a “minority” in your own country, tomorrow? The timing couldn’t be more perfect for an economic boycott. Washington is practically begging us to buy, buy. Folks aren’t spending much money anyway. Our boycott will capitalize on that and we’ll get the credit. Spend nothing; donate nothing until our southern border is closed!
Stand up for our Nation! Close those wallets! We can do this


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“STEALTH GOVERNMENT” FROM DEMOCRACY TO TYRANNY, While you were sleeping

By: Marion Valentine
March 26, 2009 at 8:36 am
“STEALTH GOVERNMENT” FROM DEMOCRACY TO TYRANNY, While you were sleeping

The key to Russia’s transition from democracy under Yeltsin to tyranny under Putin was to exploit a crisis, and use a dedicated corps to take control of branch after branch of government at all levels of authority, proceeding then to eliminate independent media outlets and political opposition.

The crisis was twofold, first Russia’s economic disaster that was blamed on an excessively deregulated free market and the heads of various corporations. Secondly the disastrous war against Islamic terrorists in Chechnya, and an attempt to intervene in Yugoslavia to prevent the rise of a Muslim Albanian state in Kosovo.

An economic crisis blamed on deregulation and two wars against Muslim terrorists. Sound familiar yet?

Widely blamed for economic corruption and military failures, Yeltsin resigned turning over the government to Ex-KGB man Putin. Putin’s solution to Russia’s economic problems was nationalization.

Putin’s regime forcibly and fraudulently seized a number of corporations, most prominently Gazprom, while conducting a smear campaign against their executives. Some were jailed, when they attempted to appeal, their lawyers were jailed too. He removed local representation, appointing State Governors personally. Power was centralized through him.

For this Putin was hailed as a reformer fighting for the people, who had brought stability to Russia. Using the seized loot of nationalized corporations, he created a network composed of KGB and ex-KGB personnel who now control most of Russia’s political and business infrastructure. Much of Russia’s wealth was siphoned away as bribes to them.

The press was not openly nationalized, but it was ruthlessly winnowed. The media ceaselessly chant praise of Putin. Opposition outlets have been taken over or shut down. Journalists who dissent are beaten and eventually killed, if they don’t get the message. The media speaks in one voice.

Putin’s advisors created Nashi “Ours”, officially the “Youth Democratic Anti-Fascist Movement”, a youth corps personally loyal to Putin and his agenda. With the passage of HR 1388, the (GIVE) Act, or as one subtitle is labeled with no trace of irony, (Learn and Serve America) ,only the comma before America is missing– it’s worth taking a look at how the Russian version works.

It’s official. To be patriotic in Russia is to be a fan of Putin, specifically a Putin Youth.

“The idea was to create an ideology based on a total devotion to the president and his course,” says a Kremlin adviser, Sergei Markov.

While their methods are still mostly street theater, it’s probably only a matter of time before they graduate to more serious violence. Indeed, their recruiting boot camps feature paramilitary training to fight against fascists

Another deeply disturbing government initiative is labeling critics “extremists” and criminals, another tactic of all serious totalitarian states. When you can criminalize criticism of the government, there is nothing you can’t get away with, and all remaining freedoms are hanging by a thread.

Now officially Nashi looks almost benevolent, a service corps of youth volunteers that aids the sick and disabled, provides information, aids the birth rate and meets with political leaders. In return its “volunteers” receive college educations followed by careers in politics and the Russian bureaucracy. It looks a lot like the vision for a youth service corps embedded in HR 1388.

Of course the real purpose of Nashi is a national corps of volunteers combating “fascism”. Fascists being anyone who criticizes Putin. Their guiding principle is an obsessive devotion to Putin. Their ultimate purpose is to form the next government party, one composed of men and women completely obedient to Putin, membership in which is compulsory for government service.

It is fascinating to see this reverse engineered version of the Communist and Nazi parties. It’s also horrifying because the ingredients are in place for the same process to be applied to the United States.

Obama rose to power to power based on an economic crisis and two wars. His response to the crisis is to push nationalization and centralization, backed by a cult of personality. His advisors are determined to leverage this crisis to transform him into a savior, to be given credit for ending an economic depression, followed by giving him virtually unlimited power.

Obama already has widespread media worship, but his paranoid control over the press makes it clear that he isn’t satisfied with anything but total power. Hence the early campaign against Rush Limbaugh and then CNBC figures who criticized him. Like Putin, you can’t support Obama 75 percent of the time. You must support him 100 percent of the time, or keep your mouth shut.

If Obama’s plans come to pass, the casualties will be independent businesses which will be given the choice between serving as Obama supporters, their CEO’s serving a role similar to that of Putin’s pet oligarchs, and state governments, which will become unable to meet their debts and expenses, and will be taken over by Federally appointed caretakers that will become Governors in all but name.

The youth corps would serve as the final element. HR 1388 calls for integrating them into every academic and learning environment, including private schools. It calls for treating “service based learning” as a fundamental part of every curriculum, from cradle to university. It lays out specific guidelines and the bare bones of a far larger plan with campuses and superintendents, with a 6 billion dollar price tag, over Obama’s first term.

Will this really happen here? It might. The future isn’t set and there are many variables, but we are moving along a similar road and it behooves us to take a look at what happened in Russia, because contrary to what many believe, it can happen here.

Throughout the 20th century, power has increasingly moved out of the hands of the American people and into the hands of local and national bureaucracies. Tax rates have climbed in order to fund the constant expansion of government, which in turn has placed more and more government demands on the average person.

The problem is not the left’s phantom military-industrial complex, but the very real balance beam between corporations and government, that are likely to end the same way they did in Europe or Russia. With the bureaucracy co-opting corporations into government rule.

Law enforcement has gained more authority over a general public that now reflexively defers to their power, and feels inept and unable to engage in any form of self-defense. Answering to authority, a reflex once described as foreign to Americans by Lafayette, is now a commonplace part of daily life.

Independent thought has become increasingly absent, people get their opinions from the corporate media and from the wider celebrity oriented discourse, that helped push Obama to the top. People have stopped listening and they have stopped thinking. Many have also stopped believing. Values have become degraded, religion has become entertainment with celebrity preachers and rabbis mixing pop culture populism with feel good advice. The difference between right and wrong, propriety and impropriety, selflessness and selfishness is no longer apparent to most people.

All the conditions are there for implementing authoritarian rule. And all the conditions are also there for the people to wake and restore America as a government of the people and by the people, that governs the people least. Which way the pendulum will swing, may determine where a decade from now former top American political figures are giving testimony somewhere abroad about how America ceased to be a free nation.



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ANALY ZING INTELLIGENCE

By: Marion Valentine
March 4, 2009 at 12:43 pm
ANALYZING INTELLIGENCE

LITTLE PIECES IN THE BIG PICTURE

By Marion Valentine USN(disabled)

I was in Navy Intelligence for nine years, and this is how I was taught to analyze Intelligence.

You can put a single piece of a jigsaw puzzle under a microscope, analyze it, dissect it, and still would have no idea what the completed puzzle would look like.Most people will focus on a single event as a separate entity, and think when they understand it, that they have the whole picture.

That is not the case, the failure of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, just a small piece, the bailout another, the run on the banks another, all big pieces but just a small part of the overall picture.

To put together the outline (or border) of the picture (puzzle) of where we are today, you must reach back to the year 1948 to pick up a few pieces, then move forward through the years gathering pieces that fit together perfectly

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As you move through the years gathering pieces you add to the inside of the border until you get close to the present time. Pieces of current events matched together soon leaves
you with a small part of the overall picture that is still not complete. Future events will eventually print those pieces, but if you have correctly matched all the pieces to this point, you will be able to determine the overall theme of the picture.

That is what I did in my Article America In Peril, to outline and match the pieces (events, Public records) through the years to get the picture of how the United States has moved towards Socialism. In my article Planned or Happenstance, I conclude the overall theme
is Global Communist domination.

I ask you who read this, read America In Peril, Do your own research, and add or take away from the picture I have put together, but you must only use documented public records which will justify adding or removing a piece, remembering public records are permanent, and cannot be dismissed because you don’t like their contents.

Then I ask you to read Planned or Happenstance and see if your conclusion of the overall theme matches mine.

I hope I get tons of email with your ideas.

Marion can be reached at madaket6@yahoo.com



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"STEALTH GOVERNMENT" CLOSING IN BEHIND THE SMOKE SCREEN,While you were sleeping

By: Marion Valentine
March 20, 2009 at 12:27 pm
“STEALTH GOVERNMENT” CLOSING IN BEHIND THE SMOKE SCREEN, While you were sleeping

Most of you know how the military uses smoke screens to hide their movements. You also know that they send out scouting patrols to locate the enemy,and examine the terrain.

If you have been keeping up with the MSM headline stories for the last 60 days and had the foresight to look behind the smoke screen, you may have noticed the Obama administration slowly moving towards their real goal.

The dust up Rush Limbaugh, the AIG bonuses, were just smoke screens behind which they were doing things that will ensure the total collapse of the US economy and possibly the World economy.

The scouting parties: Mentioning that disabled Veterans would have to use Private health care insurance to pay for their treatment, met too much resistance and was abandoned. The idea to shred used casings of certain caliber ammunition so they could not be reloaded met the same fate, But while we were focusing on the smoke screen(The headline MSM stories) they slipped in every Socialist program they could in bills that very few read.

In 1966 two Socialist professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Pliven, at Columbia University published an article that outlined how to create a crisis to advance Socialist Objectives. They were inspired by Marxist organizer Saul Alinski. ACORN is another group that uses the Cloward/Pliven Socialist Tactics of creating a crisis.

TOTUS (Teleprompter Of The US), I refuse to call him POTUS, his Puppetmasters, Rockefeller, Rothschild, George Soros and the 100 plus members of Democracy Alliance, and ACORN are working 24/7 at a breakneck pace to push policy to “create” the next big crisis.

What could be the next big crisis?

The next crisis could be the complete collapse of the US economy, or it could come in the form of a terrorist attack that would be far more devastating than 9/11.
Click on the link below and watch the video.
http://www.tangle.com/view_video.php?viewkey=0861ff3eabea1ceb73e4

Why the rush?
The next big crisis must happen before the 2010 elections, because the way the Poll numbers are falling the Democrats will less popular than a stray cat at a dog show.
The crisis must be so dire, there will be little or no resistance when TOTUS declares a National Emergency and imposes Martial Law.

What is the real goal of TOTUS and his puppetmasters.
The goal is to turn the U.S.A. into a Communist Dictator controlled nation, and ultimately just a Nation State member of the Global Union of Socialist Nation States.
All world banks, all military,(France has already turned control of their Military over to the UN) all Universal Health care, all education and monetary policies will be controlled by the United Nations. Domination of the worlds resources, wealth and people by the “elite” ruling class will be complete.

You may ask, what about the Muslim Countries.
Since most of the Muslim countries are almost totally dependent on oil for their economy, The Global Union of Socialist Nation States will drill for every drop of oil and natural gas. Mine every lump of coal. Flood the market with cheap energy and bankrupt the Muslim countries, forcing them to join and comply with the Global Union of Socialist Nation States.

Marion A. Valentine U.S. Navy Intelligence/Cryptologist(disabled)

Marion can be reached at madaket6@yahoo.com



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By: Marion Valentine
March 25, 2009 at 10:16 am
Looking for Information the Main Stream Media wont report

I try to post information here that you will not find in the Main Stream media.

Many articles are written by others than myself, though there are a few posts that I have written.

A well informed people have liberty, A people indoctrinated by false information are already slaves, but are unaware of their captivity.

The old Russian KGB called the Indoctrination of a people to accept an ideology, “demoralization.” Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB agent who escaped in 1970, and gave an interview in 1984, said “The demoralization of America has Been accomplished.”






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Joan Swirski, Telling it Like it is

Obama’s Poison Ivy
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By Joan Swirsky Tuesday, March 24, 2009

After only two months of the Obama presidency, Americans are horrified, angry, depressed, and on the verge of full-scale revolt against the president and his toadying Socialist acolytes for doing their best to destroy our once-vibrant economy, inflict decades of debt on our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and usher in what historians will surely record as The Age of The Hubristic and Incompetent Presidency.

This assessment is borne out by polls, man-and-woman-in-the-street interviews, escalating unemployment figures, and creeping inflation which threatens to become the hyperinflation that will put the final nail in an economy that up until 2006 – when the Democrats took control of the Congress – was on a consistently upward trajectory, with unprecedentedly low unemployment, and hard-working Americans enjoying the fruits of their labors.

But all that changed when an inexperienced novice from the Chicago Machine offered “hope” and “change” to an electorate that had been brainwashed by a leftist media to believe that President Bush had lost the war in Iraq (wrong…we won!), instituted “unfair” policies toward our enemies via the Patriot Act, Gitmo, rendition, et al. (which kept us safe!), and supported an “unfair” free-market economy (which kept about 92 percent of Americans flourishing!).

Yet in a mere two months, our radical leftwing president has:

* Demoralized our heroic troops with drastic cuts to our military budget.
* Threatened to force our injured heroes to pay their own healthcare expenses – since rescinded, but don’t count on that lasting.
* Compromised our national security by closing Gitmo with no plan for where the released terrorists will go.
* Mandated his kill-as-many-unborn-infants-as-possible agenda by overturning the Mexico City Policy.
* Rewarded Hamas terrorists with $900 million to replenish their killing machine against Israel.
* All-but bankrupted our economy and left future generations with mountains of debt.
* Proposed a “domestic security force” – complete with uniforms – that reeks of the Third Reich’s Brown Shirts.
* Launched his Acorn cronies to foist a “Pledge to Obama” – not to America – on the public.
* Unleashed an army of incompetents to deal with our economic and financial problems.

Yet Obama persists in supporting those incompetents – and the tax cheats – who surround him.

Why? I suspect that Obama’s destroy-America agenda is to actualize his long-time hatred of the American way of life in order to convert America’s exceptionalism into the documented history of Socialism’s lengthy history of drastic failures.

Again, why? It is because Socialists like Obama – I’m being kind here; it looks more like Communism to me – believe that minorities like blacks and Hispanics and unionists and women and gays and teachers are all too stupid to make it on their own in a capitalist system. Apparently, all of these career-victim groups agree with him, while ignoring all they’ve gained over the past hundred-years in genuine equality and justice, their serial grievances notwithstanding.

Interesting, isn’t it, that our borders are being overrun by the real victims of oppressive regimes while our own home-grown “victims” aren’t fleeing to any of the countries they revere – like Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, or the terrorist-supporting Mideast states like Saudi Arabia, Syria, or so-called “Palestine”?

But there is one thing our increasingly impoverished populace can thank the president for, which is saving them the cost – well over $250,000 – of sending their children to Ivy League schools. Once thought of as both the realization of success and the path to both personal power and the “better life” that a free=market economy offered, the eight schools of Ivy status – Harvard, Yale, UPenn, Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton, Columbia and Cornell – have been distinguished by their academic excellence and selective admissions, although the past several decades have seen steadily increasing admissions of minorities.
THE PRESIDENT’S IVY’S IDIOTS

So who are the “brains” of the Ivy League guiding our country in this perilous time, the top echelon who are pretending to have a clue about “fixing” the economy through the current recession-cum-depression?

* President Barack Obama: Columbia U; Harvard Law School. Business experience: Zero.
* Sec. of State Hillary Clinton: Yale; Yale Law School. Business experience: selling Brownie and Girl Scout cookies in grade school.
* Sec. of the Treasury (and tax cheat) Timothy Geithner: Dartmouth; (Master’s from John Hopkins). Business experience: Zero.
* Attorney General at Dept. of Justice Eric Holder: Columbia; Columbia Law School. Business experience: Zero.
* Sec. of Commerce Gary Locke: Yale; (Boston U. Law School). Business experience: part-time jobs through college.
* Sec. of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan: Harvard; Master’s from Harvard. Business experience: Zero.

All of the above are Ivy Leaguers – the so-called best and brightest – who are running our country and effectively running it into the ground – God help us! But there are plenty of non-Ivy idiots who are aiding and abetting the president’s destroy-America agenda.

* Vice President (gaffe-o-meter) Joseph Biden: UDelaware; Syracuse U. Law School.
* Sec. of Defense Robert Gates: William & Mary; Master’s from Indiana U; Ph.D. from Georgetown U.
* Sec. of Agriculture Tom Vilsack: Hamilton College; Albany Law School.
* Sec. of Labor (okay, her husband has tax liens) Hilda Solis: CalState Polytechnic U; Univ. of Southern CA.
* Sec. of Transportation Ray (Chicago Machine) LaHood: Bradley U.
* Sec. of Energy (the man-made global-warming huckster) Steven Chu: U of Rochester; Ph.D. from U of CA.
* Sec. of Veteran’s Affairs General Eric Shinseki: U.S. Military Academy; Master’s from Duke U.
* Sec. of Homeland Security (don’t protect the Mexican border) Janet Napolitano: Santa Clara U (CA); U of Virginia Law School.
* Sec. of Education Arne (Chicago Machine) Duncan:
* Sec. of Health and Human Services Kathleen (yes to abortion) Sebelius: Trinity Washington U; Masters from U of Kansas.

And that is not to omit the positions of people who also enjoy Cabinet-rank, the president’s all-important Council of Economic Advisors.

* Chairwoman Christina Romer: William & Mary; Master’s from Mass. Institute of Technology (MIT). Business experience: Zero.
* The Office of Management & Budget’s Director Peter R. Orszag: Princeton; Master’s from London School of Economics. Business experience: Zero.
* The United States Trade Representative Ambassador-designate Ronald Kirk: Austin College; U of Texas Law School. Business experience: Zero.
* The United States Ambassador to the United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice: Stanford U; Master’s and Doctorate from Oxford. Business experience: Zero.
* The White House Chief of Staff Rahm (Chicago Machine) Emanuel: Evanston School of Ballet; Sarah Lawrence College; Master’s from Northwestern U. Business experience: worked at Arby’s restaurant while in high school.

Then there are the two Representatives – and architects of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac implosion, both with Zero business experience – Cong. Barney Frank (Harvard) and Sen. Chris Dodd (Providence College, U. of Louisville Law School). And let’s not forget the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke (Harvard; Ph.D. from M.I.T.), whose business experience involved working construction in high school and as a waiter through college.

Okay, I take it back. It’s not just the poison Ivy set, but also those with fancy credentials from other schools who have demonstrated that their guiding leftwing philosophy translates into disastrous economic policy. Incredible, isn’t it, that a bunch of eggheads and career politicians with no practical, hands-on, real-life experience in the business world are purporting to be “experts” in getting us out of the mess many of them helped to create!
POISON KILLS!

Today, these arrogant know-nothings, particularly President Obama and his lackey-in-chief Tim Geithner, are asking an increasingly skeptical – if not cynical – Congress to grant them the power to, in effect, seize more and more private enterprises, the better to speed up the nationalization of all profit-making businesses. Oh how they loathe private enterprise, entrepreneurship, rugged individualism, and America’s spirit of freedom! Oh how they revile – and love to flout – the U.S. Constitution! Oh how these elitists love cramming their poison pills down the gagging, choking, suffocated throats of Americans!

“Swallow this poison!” they demand. “So what if you, the taxpayer, paid for the first $180-billion stimulus dose that didn’t work. and the second $345-billion housing bailout dose that didn’t work, and the third $700-billion Wall St. bailout dose that didn’t work, and the $1.5-trillion in debt that the Federal Reserve bought from the U.S. Treasury dose that didn’t work, and $3.1-trillion U.S. budget that won’t work? Swallow it! And if you don’t like the taste, if it’s making you sick, well too damn bad!”

But be warned. While President Obama and Sen. Dodd are exhorting AIG (American International Group) employees to give back the bonus money they got, they plan to keep the $101,322 and $280,000 they gleaned, respectively, in political donations from the failing company, while all the time plotting to sugarcoat the next poison pill they want to cram down the craws of Americans.

How so? Dodd (and Barney Frank, for that matter) will continue with the duplicitous double-talk and evade-responsibility two-step they’ve become so adept at over decades. And Obama will continue “reaching out” to the public in gaffe-ridden appearances like his recent foray on The Tonight Show and in overkill public forums in which he will subvert the English language to tell Americans that poor is rich, oppressed is emancipated, tyranny is benevolent, and that the bad taste in their mouths from his next poison pill is good for them!

This is how the leftist so-called intelligentsia works. Say the exact opposite of what you mean and rely on the people you consider both stupid and gullible to believe it. To this point, Americans have given President Obama a grace period to get his bearings and hit his stride – the “honeymoon” period, so to speak, sort of like when a new bride (the American people) and the new groom (the president) get to know each other, size each other up, and see if they’re compatible.

For people like me, as for multimillions of Americans – including increasing numbers of Democrats and Independents – the honeymoon is over! We don’t like your America or your friends and colleagues or your plans for our future. And we detest the poison pills that your poison Ivys have crammed down our throats.

But thank you anyway, Mr. President, for single-handedly mobilizing our electorate to wrest away the Congress in 2010 from the anti-American Democrats who now infest the House and Senate.

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GLOBAL CURRENCY. Acmetal or Amero

No cheerleader for propping up greenback at G20 summit

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By Judi McLeod Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Is the table being set for One World Government rather than speeding the recovery of the worldwide recession at next week’s G20 London summit?

China has now joined Russia in pressing G20 members for a single world currency. The deadly duo, which has blocked all things America at the United Nations, is calling for the same thing: Dumping the US greenback as the international reserve currency for a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

So far no calls to protect the greenback by the new occupant of the Oval Office.

Days ahead of the summit, both China and Russia posted their priorities for the new global system on their official websites.

“In an essay posted on the People’s Bank of China’s website, Zhou Xiaochuan, the central bank’s governor, said the goal would be to create a reserve currency “that is disconnected from individual nations and is able to remain stable in the long run, thus removing the inherent deficiencies caused by using credit-based national currencies.” (http://www.FT.com, March 23, 2009).

China, of course, can always justify its priority with its recently stated anxiety about U.S. loans now that the US economy seems to have reached its tipping point.

The Kremlin published its priorities Monday for an upcoming meeting of the G20, “calling for the creation of a supranational reserve currency to be issued by international institutions as part of a reform of the global financial system,” (The MoscowTimes.com, March 17, 2009).

The Kremlin has persistently criticized the dollar’s status as the dominant global reserve currency and has lowered its own dollar holdings in the last few years. Both President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have repeatedly called for the ruble to be used as a regional reserve currency, although the idea has received little support outside of Russia.

Both are getting a lot of help from Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who is calling for the “acmetal” world currency and who now has the backing of the architect of the euro currency, Canadian Nobel-prize winner Professor Robert Mundell.

The easy to forget “acmetal” combines the Greek word “acme”, meaning peak or best and “capital”.

“Call it acmetal in Kazakh. Call it amero in the headed-for-economic-meltdown United States of America,” Canada Free Press wrote on March 13.

The United States is headed to the Summit without a cheerleader, evidenced by the deafening silence of President Barack Obama.

It gets worse.

In the run-up to to the “press the reset button” on U.S. rekindling ties with Russia, it is now known that Obama met secretly with Mikhail Gorbachev last week.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs would not categorize the meeting as secret. According to him, “The president tends to roam around the larger (White) House and sometimes walks into meetings that weren’t previously on his schedule”.

That means the president just happened to walk in on Gorbachev!

Guess he learned nothing from the random late-night jaunt he made into the White House press corps when he just wanted to say “Good Evening” and went away mad because some reporters asked real questions.

According to Gibbs, Vice President Joe Biden and Gorbachev had been discussing ways of reducing their countries’ respective nuclear arsenals, an issue Obama and Medvedev would talk about when they met in London on April 2.

But Medvedev remained mum about Kremlin plans to publish its priorities calling for the creation of a supranational reserve currency as part of a radical reform of the global financial system?

The Moscow Times states that the Kremlin document also calls for national banks and international financial institutions to diversify their foreign currency reserves. It said the global financial system should be restructured to prevent future crisis and proposed holding an international conference after the G20 summit to adopt conventions on a new global financial structure.

Sounds like it came right out of the United Nations resolutions book as written by UN Poster Boy Maurice Strong with cohorts George Soros and Gorbachev to some.

Meanwhile, Canada, which hopes Obama will live up to his promise to keep trade alive with its biggest trading partner, is one of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing countries, meeting in London on April 2.

As the Hon. Perrin Beatty, President and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce said at an address at the University of Western Ontario yesterday, ...”there has been a complete failure of political will to overcome protectionist pressures and dismantle impediments to world trade.

Noting the need to remember the lessons of history, Beatty recalled how the value of global trade fell by two-thirds between 1929 and 1934.

“Memories fade, and seventy-nine years later Congress incorporated Buy America provisions in its stimulus package to target the benefits to American companies. It once again ignored warnings about the dangers, including the blunt assessment by Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher, who warned, `Protectionism is the crack cocaine of economics. It may provide a high. It’s addictive and it leads to economic death.’”

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"STEALTH GOVERNMENT" DISARMING AMERICA,While you were sleeping

March 20, 2009

All Private Guns Will Be Confiscated By September 2009, US Tells Russia

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción al Español abajo)

Kremlin reports on the extraordinary meeting held today between President Medvedev and former United States Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger (under Nixon), James Baker (under Bush Sr.), Charles Shultz (under Regan), former United States Defense Secretary William Perry (under Clinton), and former US Senator and top defense expert Sam Nunn, are stating that the Americans are acknowledging for the first time their acceptance of a New Global Order in which they seek to partner with natural resource rich Russia and the oil rich Nations of the Middle East in order to ensure their survival into the 21^st Century.

Leading the United States to the shocking conclusion that their very survival is at risk has been the evaporation of 45 percent of the World’s wealth which has caused a rapid plunge in Global manufacturing leading to a 49 percent collapse in US trade exports which the International Monetary Fund is reported has caused the World’s economy to shrink for the first time in 60 years and has lead Canada’s Central Bank chief David Dodge to state the World is “facing a long and deep recession that will fundamentally alter the nature of capitalism”.

Though Prime Minister Putin has warned that “resorting to a printing press would be unwise and extremely dangerous”, the already bankrupt United States, whose staggering debt is four times higher than their entire National income, has allowed its Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben “Throw Money Out of Helicopters” Bernanke to ‘create out of thin air’ a further $1.2 Trillion to stabilize the American economy, but which in turn has led to the collapse of the US Dollar leading the United Nations to recommend next week that the World “ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies”.

Russian economists further state in these reports that the United States has been left with ‘no other option’ than to force the massive devaluation of the US Dollar in order to ‘shake lose’ from banks and private investors the hundreds of billions they are currently hoarding and is being blamed for collapsing a United States where consumer spending accounts for two-thirds of its economy and which without money to borrow, or borrowers to loan to, is fast approaching the abyss.

With the devaluation of the US dollar, however, massive inflation will ensue causing the value of these currently hoarded hundreds of billions of US Dollars to plummet and forcing them to be spent before they become totally worthless, a policy which China, the largest Global holder of US debt, has voiced increasing concerns about and have cut back on their purchases of American debt even as desperation hits their own factories as orders plunge.

These top American Officials have also assured President Medvedev that new laws being written by the Obama administration will ‘completely’ reform the American financial system by fully integrating it into a single Global Economy due to be enacted during the coming G-20 summit in London.

When President Medvedev voiced his concerns to the Americans over his belief that the US Congress would not allow such a radical new set of laws to pass, these reports continue, Kissinger stated that the American people were being ‘primed’ to overwhelm their lawmakers into swiftly enacting ‘in its entirety’ the Obama administrations new banking and financial laws by the outrageous behavior of those collapsed financial giants that includes: 1.) The insurance giant AIG which after receiving over $300 billion in US taxpayer money paid out nearly $200 million in bonuses; 2.) The collapsed stock selling giant Merrill Lynch which after receiving $20 billion in US taxpayer money paid out $3.6 billion in bonuses; and 3.) The collapsed US banking giant Citigroup who after receiving $45 billion in US taxpayer money announced a $10 million redecoration of their executive office suites.

News from the United States today further confirm Kissinger’s assertions to President Medvedev as US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has now admitted that he had ordered US Senator Christopher Dodd to include the executive pay provision into the stimulus bill which was, in fact, a loophole allowing these controversial bonuses to be paid out.

To such machinations being utilized by their supposed ‘leaders’ against them in order to pave the road from a once sovereign United States to this New World Order these Americans remain nearly clueless, but when pressed by President Medvedev on the plans to ensure that civil society on the North American continent doesn’t break down Kissinger reportedly replied, “By September we’ll have confiscated all privately owned guns so it really doesn’t matter what we do, we’ll still be in charge”.

Russian Intelligence reports state that gun ownership statistics in the United States vary widely, but is estimated to be that nearly 50 percent of US households have nearly 270 million guns, none of which these Americans seem now ready to part with without a fight.

But, new reports coming from the United States show that they are fast adopting the tactics used by the German Nazis to disarm their society prior to the installation of fascist rule and martial law by first rendering all private guns useless by eliminating and restricting the ammunition they use. And from new reports coming from the United States we can see that this ‘plan’ is already being instituted with ammunition shortages being reported in Idaho, Georgia, and Louisiana, and a new law just introduced in California which would:

1. Stop the private transfer between individuals of more than 50 rounds of ammunition.

2. License and tax anyone selling handgun ammunition commercially and force these stores to get background checks on anyone selling ammunition.

3. Get a thumbprint from anyone buying handgun ammunition.

4. Ban all ammunition sales that don't take place face-to- face, in other words, ban mail-order sales.

Even more chilling for American gun owners was the Obama administrations order to the US Military on March 12 which stated: “Effective immediately DOD Surplus, LLC, will be implementing new requirements for mutilation of fired shell casings. The new DRMS requirement calls for DOD Surplus personnel to witness the mutilation of the property and sign the Certificate of Destruction.” which would have crippled the US ammunition industry, who are the largest purchasers of used military ammunition brass, but after found out about by US Senators was quickly withdrawn.

To the reasons feared by the leadership class in the United States of their citizens retaining the right to firearms we can read:

“As the growing world-wide economic crisis deepens, military forces from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom are preparing to meet angry citizens on the street. The economic crisis - and the public outrage it is causing - is at the forefront of intelligence agencies and military forces in the western world.

Prominent trends forecaster Gerald Celente has been sounding the alarm for years, warning that riots and tax revolts are coming to America. The Pentagon, U. K. Ministry of Defense, and Canadian military apparently agree. In November of 2008 the United States Army War College released the report Known Unknowns: Unconventional "Strategic Shocks" in Defense Strategy Development. The report identifies economic collapse as a reason for the defense establishment to conduct domestic operations. The report states,

"Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security. Deliberate employment of weapons of mass destruction or other catastrophic capabilities, unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency..."

The CIA and MI5 are both watching the economic situation for signs of unrest and political instability. As the Washington Post reports, the CIA has added an economic situation report to its threat assessment for the White House. A further sign that the United States government is anticipating widespread unrest comes with the domestic stationing of the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division. The Army Times reports,

"They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack."

Canadian military forces have been given a nearly identical domestic mission in a synchronized move with the United States. Canada's National Post reports that,

"The Canadian military has embarked on a wide-ranging plan to turn its reserve soldiers into focused units trained and equipped to respond to a nightmarish array of domestic threats, including terrorist "dirty bomb" attacks, biological agent containment, Arctic catastrophes and natural disasters.”

Reports from the United States are also revealing that for the first time since their Civil War, active duty US Army Troops were put into the streets of Alabama after the killing spree of a crazed gunman, but which the US Army is now reporting it is ‘investigating’ because it doesn’t know who deployed them.

To whom the leadership elite in America are actually planning on protecting themselves from we can further read: “A new document meant to help Missouri law enforcement agencies identify militia members or domestic terrorists has drawn criticism for some of the warning signs mentioned.

The Feb. 20 report called "The Modern Militia Movement" mentions such red flags as political bumper stickers for third-party candidates, such as U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, who ran for president last year; talk of conspiracy theories, such as the plan for a superhighway linking Canada to Mexico; and possession of subversive literature.”

As to what these dangerous American terrorists can expect once they are in the custody of their US intelligence services?

“The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) concluded in 2007 that US methods to extract information from prisoners at secret CIA jails as part of the "war on terror" amounted to torture.”

Even worse for these dissident Americans are the chilling revelations from top investigative news journalist Seymour Hersh: “After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet. That does happen.”

So today, as the United States ‘watch list’ for domestic and International terrorists has hit 1 million names, in a country that already has more prisoners than any other Nation in the World, or our entire Earths’ history for that matter, and as sales of weapons and ammunition are still hitting record highs in America since President Obama’s election, it would appear more than likely that the assertions of US officials to Russia that they remain in control of their country is highly doubtful…and needing just one single ‘spark’ to plunge it into full scale civil war.

And whose to say that hasn’t been their ‘plan’ all along?

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