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video.google.com

"The citizens of the states: Your time has come to either step up to the plate or submit to human bondage. I know that millions of caring, decent Americans are trying to fight this leviathan monster out of Washington, DC., but as time has shown, between a completely broken judicial system, rotten career politicians and ignorant, uninformed, disinterested and special interest group voters, we are losing ground. As we continue to see the shredding of the Bill of Rights, Americans are becoming more afraid of the federal government. Take this 13:23 minute video. Watch it. What you see are Americans who have invested time and money into making a short film because they see the real time danger facing this republic by a growing police state under the guise of "for our own good" agencies like the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA. Nothing could be further from the truth."

BATTLE PLAN FOR THE 50 STATES
PART 1 of 2
By: Devvy
September 22, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd394.htm

Monday, September 22, 2008

New Lego Building Blocks for the Big Boys!

CAFR1 NATIONAL REPORT - 09/21/08

I received the following communication today. It appears the Government has new Lego building blocks to play with. Prison cells that are designed to snap together to build a prison anywhere at any time to meet the demand.

The new Lego style can be snapped together to make a hundred, a thousand, or hundred thousand cell prisons, two, three, or ten blocks high. Rather expensive to make these mobile type units don't you think? Our government must see a need for them somewhere. Your home town when needed maybe?

Move em in, move em out when and where needed! The people need to confiscate a few of these units and stack them in DC and Wall Street. They are truly needed there and could be put to good use.

Sent FYI from,

Walter Burien
http://CAFR1.com

PS: Video of Cell placement for final unit design:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQMcPCnIGcE

For DC and Wall Street, now you know where to get their new homes for them from!
Sent FYI from,

Walter Burien
http://CAFR1.com

The communication received today 09/21/08 is as follows:

From: "Reb"
Subject: PHOTOS: Jail cells off loaded in Utah . . . gov't officials refuse to talk . . . problem!
Date: Sun, September 21, 2008 4:45 am
To: WalterBurien@CAFR1.com

Subject: Fwd: ALERT Pictures: PRISON CELLS unloaded in PROVO, UTAH

This was on the Barbara Jean show. Right down in Provo's east bay these concrete blocks (cells) were unloaded while her show was being broadcast. Thank goodness for citizen journalists who went and captured these images. What and who they are for is the question?

"Official" sources most likely would evade giving a straight answer.

I appreciate whoever it was that took these photo's and it sounded like someone also was capturing video at some point. I'd like to see that too.

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Ross Subject: ALERT
Pictures: PRISON CELLS unloaded in PROVO, UTAH

See below.

Subject: ALERT Pictures: PRISON CELLS unloaded in PROVO, UTAH
Ed who took these pictures at the University Ave, East Bay, Provo.

Ed said one unloader said they where going to Vernal another one said don't believe him because they have railroad tracks out to Vernal.

Date: Monday, September 8, 2008, 3:32 PM

These are pictures I just took of them unloading the units. There were a couple of people there who were flag pickups who are to follow the big trucks for delivery to what they said is Vernal. There were no big trucks there when I left at about 3:00PM.

Please acknowledge if you receive these ok.

Some of the pictures show the cells loaded on their sides and at the bottom straight up.

“A community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.”
- Oscar Wilde, [‘The Soul of Man under Socialis’, 1891]

“The black flower of civilized society, a prison.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne [‘The Scarlet Letter- 1850]

“The jailer is another kind of captive—is the jailer envious of his prisoner’s dreams?”
Gerard de Nerval [Fragments de Faust]

“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison…the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.”
- Thoreau

There is a paradox at the core of penology, and from it derives the thousand ills and afflictions of the prison system. It is that not only the worst of the young ar sent to prison but the best – that is the proudest, the bravest, the most daring, the most enterprising, and the most undefeated of the poor. There starts the horror.
Norman Mailer, introduction to In the Belly of the Beast

"Prisons are the symbol of the servitude of the people, they are always built only to subjugate the people, the workers and peasants. . . Free people have no use for prisons. Wherever prisons exist, the people are not free. . . In keeping with this attitude, they [the Makhnovists] demolished prisons wherever they went." [Peter Arshinov, The History of the Makhnovist Movement, p. 153]

"Gary Nash describes Iroquois culture. No laws and ordinances, sheriffs and constables, judges and juries, or courts or jails - the apparatus of authority in European societies - were to be found in the northeast woodlands prior to European arrival. Yet boundaries of acceptable behaviour were firmly set. Though priding themselves on the autonomous individual, the Iroquois maintained a strict sense of right and wrong..." [Howard Zinn, Columbus, the Indians and Human Progress, 1492-1992]

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." The reason the U.S. has the largest incarceration rates in the world, with an increasingly privatized prison system, is that this is our one constitutionally protected form of slavery, according to Harvard legal scholar Kaia Stern."

How much of that 700 BILLION dollar Treasury Dept. Slush Fund goes to Israel?

See previous post - Let's do the Time Warp, again, Rumsfeld says $2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon.

How much of the 700 BILLION dollar slush fund given to the Treasury Department will wind up in Tel Aviv?

wakeupfromyourslumber.com

A slush fund that starts at 700 BILLION, and there's NO LIMIT.

Maybe this is the "Clean Break: Securing the Realm" scenario talked about where Israel gets some type of outside money to permanently prop up that racist and apartheid, Jews only state.

A document written by some of the same thugs that lied the US into the Iraq War.

Thugs like David Wurmser, Doug Feith and Richard Perle.
The Clean Break document here, says that "...[financial] self-reliance will grant Israel greater freedom of action and remove a significant lever of pressure used against it in the past."

In other words, if Israel was able to secure a line of financing independent of the US Congress, where occasionally, embarrassing questions about Israel's brutal ethnic cleansing campaign against the Palestinians and the Lebanese get asked, then with that independent financing, Israel could murder and steal to it's hearts content.

Congress is being asked and told to hurry, hurry, hurry, push this thru NOW, don't ask any questions, especially about the part that will give US money to foreign interests, as shown here

Why?

Is it because one or more of those foreign interest are banks in Tel Aviv or banks directly related to Israel? And why does this whole bill sound like a "Get out of Jail" free card to the con artists and hustlers who helped tank the US economy to begin with, since we're being told to act like adults and not to worry about bygones and thieves, they'll be dealt with later....Right.

This is equivalent to seeing a thief ransacking your house and pointing out to him where your kid's piggybank is located.

If this whole damned deal is such a good thing, then why this portion?
"Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.”
They've already changed the provisons several times, how many more changes before this load of manure gets shoveled down our throats?

The legislative outline that went to Capitol Hill at 1:30 a.m. Saturday had said that an eligible financial institution had to have “its headquarters in the United States.” That would exclude foreign-based institutions with big U.S. operations, such as Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS.

But a Treasury “Fact Sheet” released at 7:15 Saturday night sought to give the administration more flexibility, with an expanded definition that could include all of those banks: “Participating financial institutions must have significant operations in the U.S., unless the Secretary makes a determination, in consultation with the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, that broader eligibility is necessary to effectively stabilize financial markets.”
From the always on the ball blog at American Everyman

***UPDATE*** It’s interesting that CBS is trying to sell this plan to it’s viewers as “the Lesser of Two Evils” quoting “some sources say…”. This article doesn’t mention the fact that the $700 billion isn’t an overall price, just a cap on how much can be outstanding at one time, meaning it will be much more in overall cost to the taxpayers. Nor do they mention the complete and unchallengeable control that one person would have over that immense sum of money. Instead they just parrot the usual cliche that people are expected to buy these days when having to suck-it-up and accept something they don’t really want; “the lesser of two evils“. I certainly hope you “progressive” sites out there take note.

Within the $700 billion dollar Bailout Bill, there lies some very interesting clauses. The most striking of which is Section 8

“Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.”

This basically means that the decisions that the Secretary makes may, or may not be, announced to the public at the sole discretion of the Secretary, and those decisions cannot be challenged, in any way, by court or by oversight committee, giving him absolute and final say over what happens to $700 billion dollars of our money.

They will have complete control to the largest slush-fund in the world, and they will be allowed to use it, in secret, and with absolutely ZERO accountability to the public from which that money comes from.

Imagine giving your accountant complete access to all of your wealth and savings and even mortgages, and you can’t know what he is doing with it and you have no legal recourse afterward. You aren’t even allowed to investigate, mush less bring charges or contend any of his actions. Would you sign that contract?

Not only that, but it’s not really just $700 billion. According to the bill, the Secretary will have at his disposal that amount at any one given time. But if he were to “resolve” a portion of that debt, say by buying up all of Exxon’s competitor’s stock, and then short selling it all off to say… Exxon, we eat the loss, the Rockefeller’s get the gain, and that little bit of money goes back into the kitty, and the Secretary has a new $700 billion to play with.

“The Secretary’s authority to purchase mortgage-related assets under this Act shall be limited to $700,000,000,000 outstanding at any one time.”

I don’t think it is possible to even dream up a worse authority to give to an administration that has already proven that they will put their loyalty to certain companies over the will of the people, the good of the people and the rights of the people.

The only good thing about this bill is that it is slated to last only 2 years. My guess is that it won’t take them half that long before there are only two banks in the entire country; Jp Morgan/Chase and Bank of America.

This is insane. What they have done, is purposefully allowed the crash of the morgage markets in order to create massive profits for themselves and at the same time, to create a financial disaster that they are now using to justify this handover of wealth and absolute power to… themselves.

I will say this again because it deserves repeating; how can any public servant even think about handing this kind of unregulated power over to the kinds of people that have already proven they will put their corporate ties over everything else? Anyone, and I mean anyone, who votes for this legislation as it is written, deserves to be removed from office immediately. Democrat, republican, or independent.

Reporter Warns Staged Financial Crisis Part Of Fascist Coup

Huffington Post writer threatened by neo-con bloggers after urging readers to remember Prescott Bush’s Fascist “Business Plot”

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, Sept 22, 2008

A reporter for the left leaning alternative news website The Huffington Post has been attacked by neo-con bloggers and phony right-wing patriots after pointing out that the current financial crisis is part of an intentional coup to transfer unprecedented power to the Executive Branch and place public funds in the hands of the global corporate elite.

Writer Larisa Alexandrovna, makes a number of salient points in an article entitled “Welcome to the final stages of the coup…“.

Referring to the Bush administration’s “Wall Street bailout bill“, Alexandrovna warns that a fascist coup is in it’s closing stages, describing the proposed legislation as “treachery being conducted in the light of day.”

She writes:

“Now, if you do not yet understand that the Wall Street crisis is a man-made disaster done through intentional deregulation and corruption, I have a bridge in Alaska to sell to you (or Sara Palin does anyway). This manufactured crisis is now to be remedied, if the fiscal fascists get their way, with the total transfer of Congressional powers (the few that still remain) to the Executive Branch and the total transfer of public funds into corporate (via government as intermediary) hands.

[...] we already now have in writing, formally as presented to Congress, the intentions of this administration to nullify Congressional powers permanently, to alter Judicial powers permanently, and to openly steal public funds using as blackmail the total collapse of the US economy if these powers are not handed over. You do see how this is blackmail, do you not? You do see how this is a manufactured crisis precisely designed to be used as blackmail, do you not?”

Alexandrovna points out that the Treasury’s bailout proposal to Congress would provide the Treasury Secretary the power to buy up any assets he sees fit, hire anyone he wants to do it, appoint private companies as financial deputies and write whatever regulations he thinks are needed.

Furthermore, she points out that the bill states:

Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.

Alexandrovna is echoing the comments of historian John Steele Gordon who told reporters “It sounds like Paulson is asking to be a financial dictator, for a limited period of time.” She is also repeating a stark warning provided by Frank Razzano, a former assistant chief trial attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission now at Pepper Hamilton LLP in Washington, who stated that the Bush administration is seeking “dictatorial power unreviewable by the third branch of government, the courts, to try to resolve the crisis.”

As we have also reported, the $700 billion bailout legislation would provide billions to foreign central banks in addition to private foreign banks.

The proposed move represents a total shift of U.S. taxpayers’ funds into the hands of powerful private interests, some of which do not even represent American companies.

Alexandrovna compares the current manufactured crisis to the now infamous “Business Plot” of 1933, a previous attempt at an outright coup in order to install fascism in America. This treasonous plot was so called because the high-level plotters, including Prescott Bush, the current president’s grandfather, were Wall Street men who openly supported fascism.

The coup attempt came to light one year later in 1934, when General Smedley Butler informed the Congress that a group of wealthy industrialists had attempted to get on side high ranking military figures in order to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

“It seems this time around, the Bush family is trying the more subtle approach to open bloodshed: first create a crisis, then under the guise of addressing that crisis, overthrow democracy. Yes, it does sound terribly conspiracy-theory-esque when explained just this way. But what else does one call a criminal conspiracy to destroy Congressional powers permanently, alter Judicial powers permanently, and steal public funds?” Alexandrovna writes.

In a passionate conclusion the writer demands that Impeachment be brought against those members of the government involved in the “New Business Plot”. She then voices fears that failing this, people will have to take to the streets to prevent the usurpation of their freedoms and the total dissolution of America:

“You are no longer Republicans, Democrats, or any shade of voter. You do not live in a swing state or a solid colored state. You are simply this: an American. That is the only side that matters. So call your members of Congress and demand, no, declare that unless they do their duty to the Constitution and to us, we will move to the streets - not because we want to, but because our founding fathers demanded this duty of each and every citizen in the face of such a domestic enemy. Demand - as is your right - that this bill be voted against and demand - as is your right - that the people plotting this treachery be held to account. We are either a nation of laws or we are no longer a democracy. Pick a side, because there won’t be another time, another moment, another chance to be a patriot.”

Despite pointing out concrete facts, urging readers to see through the false left/right paradigm and come together to do something about such an unprecedented power grab, a number of phony patriots and neo-con bloggers have poured scorn on Alexandrovna, accusing the writer of calling for an armed insurrection, expressing hope that the government is “monitoring such enticements” and threatening to report her to the “lawful authorities” in order that she be locked in a “nice, well-lit and cheery cell”.

In a remarkable example of the Orwellian society that has continued to grow around us like a cancer, none of Alexandrovna’s detractors care to focus on the fascist treachery she describes but instead accuse her of being the traitor and the one that should be locked away.

Today finance ministers from the G7 countries roundly applauded the bailout proposal as Henry Paulson, the US Treasury Secretary called for other countries to follow America’s example.

“I’m going to be pressing our colleagues around the world to design similar programmes for their banks and institutions. Our system is a global one.” Paulson stated.

Under Proposed Bailout,

Feds Could Speculate, Nationalize Any Company or Industry, Or Do Anything Else They Want Using Taxpayer Money

George Washington’s Blog
Monday, Sept 22, 2008

The Fact Sheet from the U.S. Treasury states:

The purchases are intended to be residential and commercial mortgage-related assets, which may include mortgage-backed securities and whole loans. The Secretary will have the discretion, in consultation with the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, to purchase other assets, as deemed necessary to effectively stabilize financial markets.

So Paulson, in consultation with Bernanke, could “deem it necessary” to “stabilize” the financial markets by buying boat loads of gold. Or by cornering the market in uranium or platinum.

Or they could decide that they needed to buy Microsoft and Google.

Just like Bush and Cheney have gotten us into oil wars and wars to protect Israel under the guise of being necessary to protect our national defense, Paulson and Bernanke could do anything they want by pretending it is for the stability of the financial markets, especially since no one could challenge their actions in court.

Naomi Klein: Financial crisis part of Bush ’shock doctrine’

Naomi Klein: Financial crisis part of Bush ’shock doctrine’

David Edwards and Andrew McLemore
Raw Story
Monday, Sept 22, 2008

The bailout of Wall Street’s largest players by the federal government is another example of the Bush administration pursuing a corporate agenda at the expense of average Americans, a prominent author argued on Friday.

In a Friday night interview on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Naomi Klein said President Bush’s $700 billion proposal to rescue the financial sector stems from a profiteering streak that has dominated the last eight years.

“The disaster is far from over,” Klein said. “The disaster was on Wall Street and they have moved the disaster to Main Street.”

Referring to the bailout, Klein said the “bomb has yet to detonate” and that the real crisis will strike when tax payers are overwhelmed when faced with the debt from the bailouts.

According to Klein, the bomb will detonate if Sen. John McCain becomes president and “rationalizes” that it is necessary to privatize government programs like social security and healthcare because neither the government nor Americans can afford them.

“The real disaster has yet to come; the real disaster is the debt that is going to explode on American tax payers,” Klein said.

Klein’s book, “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” outlines how crises, real or perceived, have been used by governments, especially the United States under George W. Bush, to strong-arm a disoriented citizenry into accepting changes to its rights, and its government, that it wouldn’t otherwise accept.

But Andrew Sullivan of TheAtlantic.com disagreed with Klein that a few “demonized” companies were at fault when the real culprit behind the mortgage crisis has been the willingness of Americans to

“[The American people] have spent and borrowed more than they could actually support,” Sullivan said. “…To some extent, the American people are responsible for the crisis they are currently in.”

Klein quickly shot back her own rebuttal.

“The reason why this bubble was allowed to inflate is not because the American people demanded it, it was because it was spectacularly profitable for Wall Street,” Klein said.

The video was from HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, broadcast September 19, 2008.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Uncle Sam & 911

9/11 Truth Norway: Why We Fight

WeAreChangeLA confronts CIA Director Michael V. Hayden

on the controlled demolition of the Constitution and 9/11 treason

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"
~~ Benjamin Franklin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D1wThnJo3Y
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video: Bruno Bruhweiler
editing: Jeremy Rothe-Kushel
intro music: Libra Project "Information (acoustic version on WERS '03")
outro music: Shumonik

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On September 16, 2008, CIA Director and former Director of the NSA Michael V. Hayden came to speak to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. WeAreChangeLA decided to go and join the conversation.

Stewart Howe, taking the civil approach while referencing a speech Hayden gave to the CFR last year, asked the Director whether, in the post-9/11 United States of America, we were, in fact, witnessing the controlled demolition of the Constitution and Bill of Rights under the guise of a War on Terror.

During Hayden's answer, Jeremy Rothe-Kushel, taking an disuptive approach, asked Hayden whether it was possible that a couple of Mossad agents could have been documenting (and celebrating btw) in the minutes after the 1st hit on the WTC, while Hayden and almost the entire military-intelligence command structure learned about it from CNN. Really, this is their story. Most, including Hayden, allegedly attributed the 1st attack to "pilot error."

It is our duty as Americans to confront, with the power of truth spoken, those war criminals who are, under guise of a War on Terror, waging war on We the People and our Republic, and who have declared the entire planet to be their war-zone.

Only a truth, justice and peace revolution based on love will prevail.
This is the longer question I would like to ask Mr. Hayden that had to figure out how to boil down to 10 seconds in the moment. If he wants to come clean this treasonous matter, I'm sure he has my phone number, and he can give me a call.

As the director of the NSA, even with such institutional resources and programs such as the NRO, NGA (then known as NIMA), Project Groundbreaker and Trailblazer, you claim to have had no indication of “Al-Qaeda’s plan to attack NY or Washington or the US in general." A message had been intercepted but not translated until after 9-11 that said “tomorrow is the zero hour.” Fair enough, since you were apparently not alone in our government in being in the dark about what happened on 9-11. While the NRO, Joint Chiefs, NORAD and FEMA were running wargames and terror drills that were fairly mimetic of what actually happened, people like Bush and Rice said that no one could imagine what happened. And it appears that many people in a crucial position of responsibility that day not only said they thought the 1st hit was accident, but found out about the entire event from the TV. The secretary of Defense allegedly learned that the Pentagon was under threat by the loud boom from the other side.

But meanwhile, a couple hours before the attack, a message had been transmitted through Odigo, an Israeli messaging company that warned of an imminent attack in NY. And then, in the minutes after couple few Mossad agents in New Jersey are immediately aware that a terrorist attack is occurring and just so happen to be in place to document it and celebrate it, while people like the president and his whole contingent allegedly believe the 1st hit was “pilot error”,

So, what we have here is almost the entire top tier of the civilian, military and intelligence command structure supposedly learning that the nation was under attack from CNN while someone’s text messaging their Israeli friends a pretty exact warning a couple hours before the attack and Mossad agents are perfectly positioned in New Jersey to immediately document and celebrate the 1st strike on the Towers.

Either we’re dealing with a full on Israeli-cultivated, architected and/or desired terrorist attack against the US, catching the entire US military and intelligence establishment unaware, or people like the President and Vice President, you and others in and out of our government were likely knowledgeable and/or architecturally complicit in the attacks.

So, I would like to hear which of these two possible scenarios you assert to be true.

And then finally I need to ask you, if, God and patriots forbid, there were to be another terrorist attack on the people of the United States of a nuclear, biological, chemical or other nature- as we are promised is INEVITABLE by the people such as Vice President Cheney, Department of Homeland Security Czar Chertoff who should, if operating from a place of good faith with the American people, only be promising to do everything they can to stop it from ever happening again- why should we the patriotic American people of conscience and courage and those of our soldiers who take seriously the oath they took to defend us and our Constitution against ALL enemies both foreign and domestic, not immediately look to lawless individuals within institutions and companies in places like Chantilly and Langley, Virginia, Fort Meade, Maryland, San Diego, CA, the City of London, Tel Aviv and 1600 Pennsylvania Ave for accountability?

And the even more glaring and pressing question is, with all the evidence that points to lawless individuals embedded in these very same places being the architects of the 9-11-01 terrorist attacks, what do you suggest we the American people do right now to resolve this ongoing treasonous cover-up of an act of war on the American people and the murder of almost 3000 human beings from the United States and almost a half of the countries of the world?

Why, except for the difficulty of slipping your guards and convincing the police to back up the arrest, should I not consider it my duty as an American under the law of the land to attempt a citizen’s arrest on you right now for your guilt, at the very least of treason in your role in the ongoing cover-up of 9-11?

And if you happen to still think that I am joking, I have right here in my hands the letter and information that a group of patriotic Americans delivered to Federal Judge George H. Wu 2 months ago to fulfill our constitutional duties to inform the judiciary of treasonous actions and inactions by the heads of the executive and legislative branches.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Isolation

Self-imposed due to the feeling of helplessness during the unfolding of the many day-by-day horrible events.

Incredible Documentary Footage of Mass Arrest in St. Paul

By Laura Flanders, Firedoglake
Posted on September 19, 2008, Printed on September 20, 2008

alternet.org

Now that we've had a few weeks to settle, a look back at Labor Day in the Twin Cities. Labor Day was of course also Day One of the Republican National Convention. Video was released today of an apparent mass arrest of utterly peaceful concert goers at the SEIU Labor Day concert.

The most surreal moment in the tape is an off-camera exchange. Police in riot gear have surrounded loungers in a waterfront park. They announce, "Ladies and Gentlemen, You're Under Arrest" and you hear one young woman say incredulously "Are you serious?"

Yep, I'm afraid they are.

Here's the press release that came with the video, from the Glass Bead Collective:

BURIED TAPE REVEALS USE OF FORCE AND AN UNWARRANTED MASS ARREST OF BYSTANDERS DURING THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (September 18, 2008) Video released today shows the indiscriminate arrest of a crowd of two hundred at the waterfront across from a concert on Harriet Island Regional Park during this month's Republican National Convention in St. Paul. The video includes multiple angles of the event as well as an interview with the cameraman who buried his footage and was one of almost two hundred people arrested for rioting without probable cause.

More than eight hundred people were arrested in St. Paul during the Republican National Convention. This video shows that at least twenty percent of the eight hundred plus arrested were seized without due cause.

Quite frankly, I didn't see anyone exhibiting behavior that would qualify as probable cause for an arrest.

Laura Flanders is the host of GRITtv and the author of Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians.

Fox News Censors Ron Paul AGAIN! (9/20/08)

During a highly advertised show titled “Fact vs. Fear” that aired on Fox Business News on Saturday Morning September 20th which touted guests coming on such as Ron Paul, Rupert Murdoch, Knute Gingrich, Donald Trump, Steve Forbes and others, Fox attempted to offer up what they considered to be a fair debate about the state of the current economic crisis and to separate rumors from fear mongering. Ironically in the middle of Dr. Paul’s explanation about the cause of this debacle, the connection mysteriously goes dead. Rupert Murdoch and other guests suffered no connection problems.

Let's do the Time Warp, again.

September 10, 2001 - JUST ONE DAY BEFORE 9/11:

Rumsfeld says $2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon

On the day before 9/11, the Pentagon admitted that $2.3 Trillion was missing, unaccounted for. Rumsfeld then called it a matter of "life and death."

IT'S LIKE A FIX FOR A JUNKIE!

Ron Paul on Economy Meltdown

It's hard to argue against the idea that a free market makes a better product.

Friday, September 19, 2008

Ron Paul Blasts "Secret Government" Running Economy

Congressman warns middle class in danger of being wiped out, says Congress is oblivious and Fed has no clue.

Watch the full address by the Congressman:

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Thursday, Sept 18, 2008
http://www.prisonplanet.com/ron-paul-blasts-secret-government-running-economy.html

Congressman Ron Paul has issued a stinging address concerning the financial crisis in which he outlines how the current economic problems, created via malinvestment and shift to a debt based economy, are now being mismanaged by private interests in secret.

What’s more he says he is not sure the Federal Reserve has any idea what to do next and that the Congress is totally oblivious to the whole sorry state of affairs - a cocktail of elements he warns puts the middle class of America in serious jeopardy.
“Today we had a lot of financial fireworks in the markets, a lot of things are going on, and I think we are in the middle of something very big.” the Congressman stated.
Speaking on the recent collapse and government bailout of several big financial institutions he warned:

“We’re talking about big bucks, we’re not talking about hundreds of millions or even hundreds of billions, we’re talking about trillions of dollars, the obligation is immeasurable.”
“The interesting thing is that they (the financial institutions) don’t come to the Congress, I mean the Federal Reserve buys them out, they own it. We as tax payers now own Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and know one knows how much that will cost. They don’t come to the Congress, we don’t have appropriations, it’s done by secret government, private individuals behind the scenes maneuvering and manipulating and trying to patch things up. While in the meantime, I’m sure there’s a few people making a couple of bucks out of this whole thing.”

The Congressman highlighted how an economy structured on debt and credit and a financial system based on interventionism and self serving moral hazard has led to gross devaluation of the dollar and ultimately lies at the root of the current financial meltdown.

“Our problems come first of all from the Federal Reserve. It is a monopoly and it controls interest rates artificially low, causes people to make mistakes, that’s the basic source. But then on top of that in the Housing market we had the community reinvestment act which told investors that they had to loan to risky borrowers, and that was a risky complication. HUD contributes to this, FDIC contributes, it’s called moral hazard, everything that we have done over here creates moral hazard, that is we assure people or assume that we will take care of everybody, just go out and create the risk, it is the opposite of the market place.” Paul stated.

“You can’t create money like we’re doing in order to support the dollar, because ultimately it hurts the dollar and everything we do in Washington today whether its on the appropriations side, whether it’s what the Fed is doing, buying up America, it’s all putting pressure on the dollar. One of these days we’re just going to have to wake up and say that we need to liquidate debt. This is malinvestment.” he urged.

The Congressman then slammed those who have blamed the crisis on failures of the free market:
“And then they have people come along and say ’see, this is the failure of capitalism’, this has nothing to do with capitalism, this is something that started off as interventionism and us being too involved in the economy for the benefit of special interests. But now it is being socialized out in the open.”

“The end of this comes when people reject the dollar and I think we’re getting awfully close to this.” Paul stated echoing comments from leading investors such as Jim Rogers, who predicted Monday that the dollar would soon lose its world reserve status.

“When you see the movement in the markets that we have today, you know that there are serious problems out there and Congress basically are oblivious, they have no idea what’s going on.” Paul continued.

“As a matter of fact I’m not even sure the Federal Reserve has any idea what to do about this. They’ve been manipulating and maneuvering for their own benefit over the years but eventually the market wins out.”

The Congressman’s comments were echoed today by reports indicating that the Congress cannot agree on any form of action and is likely to simply adjourn and “get out of the way”.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters that “no one knows what to do”.

In a stark warning, Ron Paul stressed that the longer the value of the dollar is allowed to depreciate, the greater the risk becomes for the majority of Americans:

“The reason this is so important is that if you care about people in a humanitarian sense, what you want to do is protect the value of the money. Just think of the third world nations when they have total run away inflation, the middle class gets wiped out. And what we are seeing today is the middle class being jeopardized by this type of system that we have, unlimited spending, unlimited debt, unlimited creation of new credit.”

“So it’s time that we wake up… The answers are in the free market, sound money and our Constitution.” Paul concluded.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Army Times Details Army Invasion of U.S.

Army Combat Team to Train for “Homeland Scenarios” Under NorthCom

Gina Cavallaro
Army Times
September 18, 2008

The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys.

Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — at home.

Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.

It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed hell in Mississippi and Louisiana, several active-duty units were pulled from various posts and mobilized to those areas.

But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities.

After 1st BCT finishes its dwell-time mission, expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one.

“Right now, the response force requirement will be an enduring mission. How the [Defense Department] chooses to source that and whether or not they continue to assign them to NorthCom, that could change in the future,” said Army Col. Louis Vogler, chief of NorthCom future operations. “Now, the plan is to assign a force every year.”

The command is at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., but the soldiers with 1st BCT, who returned in April after 15 months in Iraq, will operate out of their home post at Fort Stewart, Ga., where they’ll be able to go to school, spend time with their families and train for their new homeland mission as well as the counterinsurgency mission in the war zones.

Stop-loss will not be in effect, so soldiers will be able to leave the Army or move to new assignments during the mission, and the operational tempo will be variable.

Don’t look for any extra time off, though. The at-home mission does not take the place of scheduled combat-zone deployments and will take place during the so-called dwell time a unit gets to reset and regenerate after a deployment.

The 1st of the 3rd is still scheduled to deploy to either Iraq or Afghanistan in early 2010, which means the soldiers will have been home a minimum of 20 months by the time they ship out.

In the meantime, they’ll learn new skills, use some of the ones they acquired in the war zone and more than likely will not be shot at while doing any of it.

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.

Training for homeland scenarios has already begun at Fort Stewart and includes specialty tasks such as knowing how to use the “jaws of life” to extract a person from a mangled vehicle; extra medical training for a CBRNE incident; and working with U.S. Forestry Service experts on how to go in with chainsaws and cut and clear trees to clear a road or area.

The 1st BCT’s soldiers also will learn how to use “the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded,” 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them.

“It’s a new modular package of nonlethal capabilities that they’re fielding. They’ve been using pieces of it in Iraq, but this is the first time that these modules were consolidated and this package fielded, and because of this mission we’re undertaking we were the first to get it.”
The package includes equipment to stand up a hasty road block; spike strips for slowing, stopping or controlling traffic; shields and batons; and, beanbag bullets.

“I was the first guy in the brigade to get Tasered,” said Cloutier, describing the experience as “your worst muscle cramp ever — times 10 throughout your whole body.

“I’m not a small guy, I weigh 230 pounds … it put me on my knees in seconds.”

The brigade will not change its name, but the force will be known for the next year as a CBRNE Consequence Management Response Force, or CCMRF (pronounced “sea-smurf”).

“I can’t think of a more noble mission than this,” said Cloutier, who took command in July. “We’ve been all over the world during this time of conflict, but now our mission is to take care of citizens at home … and depending on where an event occurred, you’re going home to take care of your home town, your loved ones.”

While soldiers’ combat training is applicable, he said, some nuances don’t apply.

“If we go in, we’re going in to help American citizens on American soil, to save lives, provide critical life support, help clear debris, restore normalcy and support whatever local agencies need us to do, so it’s kind of a different role,” said Cloutier, who, as the division operations officer on the last rotation, learned of the homeland mission a few months ago while they were still in Iraq.

Some brigade elements will be on call around the clock, during which time they’ll do their regular marksmanship, gunnery and other deployment training. That’s because the unit will continue to train and reset for the next deployment, even as it serves in its CCMRF mission.

Should personnel be needed at an earthquake in California, for example, all or part of the brigade could be scrambled there, depending on the extent of the need and the specialties involved.
Other branches included

The active Army’s new dwell-time mission is part of a NorthCom and DOD response package.

Active-duty soldiers will be part of a force that includes elements from other military branches and dedicated National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Teams.

A final mission rehearsal exercise is scheduled for mid-September at Fort Stewart and will be run by Joint Task Force Civil Support, a unit based out of Fort Monroe, Va., that will coordinate and evaluate the interservice event.

In addition to 1st BCT, other Army units will take part in the two-week training exercise, including elements of the 1st Medical Brigade out of Fort Hood, Texas, and the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade from Fort Bragg, N.C.

There also will be Air Force engineer and medical units, the Marine Corps Chemical, Biological Initial Reaction Force, a Navy weather team and members of the Defense Logistics Agency and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

One of the things Vogler said they’ll be looking at is communications capabilities between the services.

“It is a concern, and we’re trying to check that and one of the ways we do that is by having these sorts of exercises. Leading up to this, we are going to rehearse and set up some of the communications systems to make sure we have interoperability,” he said.

“I don’t know what America’s overall plan is — I just know that 24 hours a day, seven days a week, there are soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines that are standing by to come and help if they’re called,” Cloutier said. “It makes me feel good as an American to know that my country has dedicated a force to come in and help the people at home.”

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