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Martin Luther: The Nephilim, Still Today?

On January 25, 2009

In UFOs, Nephilim & the Occult?

Quotes from John Mark Ministries

“The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood, and yet all the while ’tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. ‘Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet ’tis only the Devil; and…the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil….”

“How often have not the demons called ‘Nix,’ drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.”

Was Bob Marley Cursed for Calling Us to ONE Love? Feb. 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981

On January 25, 2009

In People Cursing People, Racism

Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from: “Bob Marley: Talking (Bob Marley in His Own Words),” by Ian McCann and Bob Marley, Sept. 2003

“I got a pain in my throat and head, and it’s killing me.
It’s like somebody’s trying to kill me.
I feel like I’ve been poisoned, and something wrong with my voice.
I’ve never felt like this before in my life.”

– Bob Marley, August, 1980
(3 years after cancer diagnosis, died 3/4 years later — p. 106)

___

“It’s a universal, international message.
Cause you get up and quarrel every day.
You really just saying prayers to the Devil,
because the Devil like you when you war and quarrel every day.”

– Bob Marley, June, 1976
(p. 56)

Cheney says he felt better after cursing at Leahy

On January 25, 2009

In 'THEY' couldn't be that EVIL??, Lying, People Cursing People

From: CNN, 2004

Vice President Dick Cheney has said he didn’t regret cursing at Sen. Patrick Leahy earlier this week, and said he felt better after the incident. […]

“That’s not the kind of language I usually use,” the vice president said in the interview during a campaign stop in Michigan.

When asked if he had cursed at Leahy, Cheney answered, “Probably.”

“Do you have any regrets?,” Neil Cavuto asked.

“No. I said it,” the vice president responded. […]

“Part of the problem here is that instead of having a substantive debate over important substantive policy issues, he had challenged my integrity, and I didn’t like that. But most of all I didn’t like the fact that after he’d done so, then he wanted to act like everything was peaches and cream.”

Leahy confirmed to CNN on Thursday that Cheney had used profanity in the exchange. […]

When asked what the reaction was from senators who overheard the conversation, Cheney said he thought several of his colleagues “felt that what I’d said badly needed to be said, that it was long overdue.”

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Obama’s Oath Retake Illegitimate? They Couldn’t Find a Bible??

On January 24, 2009

In America's Getting Jacked!, Barack Obama

From: News with Views

For the first time in history the presidential oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of United States was not taken on the the Bible.

Was this just an oversight or was it the plan all along?

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Obama’s Unconstitutional Agenda: Plan For a New World Order

On January 24, 2009

In Barack Obama

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Dalmation Riding a Bike

On January 23, 2009

In Animals, Fun–or–AMAZING Stuff!

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Gerald Celente: Top Trends During The Collapse of 2009 — Whole Health Healing, Quality, The Sharp Look …

On January 22, 2009

In Gerald Celente, The Greatest Depression?

From: Freedom’s Phoenix

Jim Puplava interviews Gerald Celente on the coming Collapse of 2009: Click Here to Listen

. . .

Some of Calente’s Interesting Points:
Selected and Transcribed by Jeff Fenske

• Whole health healing — People will only go to the doctor for emergencies. Gerald had Lyme disease, which he treated naturally.

• Yankee frugality — People fixing and doing things on their own. “Use it up, wear it out. Make it do, do without.”

• Quality — Cutting back on junk — foods and products of substance. Character.

• “The sharp look is going to be back in.” “The people are going to understand that if they’re going to want to get a job and move ahead, they better act sharp, be sharp and think sharp.”

• Entertainment revival. “In bad times, people want high times.” The great depression had “the happiest, hottest music this nation has ever seen.”

• Revival of mainstreet — “Live, work and shop all in the same area.” Mom and Pop stores.

• College crash — “These kids, today, think they know it all.”

• Global unrest — If the war is expanded beyond Gaza to include Lebanon, Syria and maybe Iran, we’re looking at WWIII. Throw in an ‘oil shock’ on top of our economic disaster, and ouch!

“We think…the collapse is going to start happening around late February, early March.”

Related:

Gerald Celente: How to make money on the elegance trend

Trends Forecaster, Gerald Celente: The GREATEST Depression Coming — “This is the time for innovation … The best of times for the people of a higher moral character”

Ron Paul: The ‘Federal’ Reserve is The Road to Disaster

On January 22, 2009

In $Money$ ToBeFree, Ron Paul

Ron Paul Discusses Geithner On Bloomberg TV, 1/21/2009

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“Look for the dollar crisis. It has to come. You just can’t create trillions of dollars out of thin air for every bailout and expect the dollar to maintain its value.” [my transcription]

Biden Tells Roberts: You Will Rule On Human Microchipping

On January 21, 2009

In Globalism—One-World Gov't, Joe Biden, Police State

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During the the confirmation hearings for John Roberts Jr., George W. Bush’s nominee for Supreme Court chief justice, Roberts was questioned by Senator Joseph R. Biden on whether he would rule against a mandatory implantable microchip to track American citizens.

Alex Jones, InfoWarrior: Concerned

On January 21, 2009

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Info-Warrior

My screenshot of Alex in the new studio, today, pausing for a station-break during his point-by-point analyisis of Obama’s inaugural speech — seeing what’s coming and not liking it.

Obama’s First Act: Taxpayer Money To Fund Abortions Of Black Babies

On January 21, 2009

In Barack Obama, Ethics

A lot has been made of the ideals of Martin Luther King in light of the inauguration of the first black President. What would the legendary civil rights campaigner have thought of Obama’s action to ensure funding for the abortion of black babies? …

King stated that the killing of a quarter of the black population of the US has not been from the lynch mobs of her childhood days, but from abortionists, “who plant their killing centers in minority neighborhoods and prey upon women who think they have no hope.”

Obama’s first action as President will ensure that those “killing centers” across the world will now be empowered with fresh capital to abort more black babies while the new President grandstands as a messiah for the poor and oppressed black race.

. . .

From: PrisonPlanet

The sickest irony amidst the euphoria of the inauguration of America’s first black President is that one of Obama’s very first actions in office will be to ensure that millions more black babies are aborted in third world countries, with American taxpayers picking up the tab.

President Obama’s first act of “change” will be to issue an executive order that will lift a ban on using taxpayer money to fund international “family planning” groups who counsel women and perform abortions around the world, but mainly in Africa.

Alex Jones’ Theory on Obama’s Inaugural Gala: Russia Kicked Out the Oligarchs Who are Orchestrating Our Crisis Too

On January 20, 2009

In Barack Obama, Globalism—One-World Gov't, Russia

Speaking to Russia TV: Alex presents the very interesting view that the same group of oligarchs, out of England and New York, who orchestrated the crisis in Russia in the ’90s, are orchestrating our current crisis.

They want President Obama “to act like a Messianic savior,” so the people will happily support their one-world-government agenda.

The Anglo/American oligarchs are now angry that Russia kicked them out, so they are causing a new cold war against Russia.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxzjkbrZxxU]January 20, 2009

Can Alaska Secede If America Ceases to Be the ‘Land of the Free’?

On January 20, 2009

In Alaska, States' Rights

From: Juneau Empire [the article is not dated; though, this is our capitol’s main newspaper]

Parnell trashes petition for Alaska’s independence
By Gregg Erickson

The union of Alaska with the United States is again safe, thanks to the vigilance of Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell and the Alaska Supreme Court. Earlier this month Parnell refused to certify an initiative petition that would have asked Alaska voters whether the state should “seek changes in existing law and constitutional provisions to authorize … independence from the United States.”

Certification would have meant the group could try to gather the roughly 35,000 signatures needed to get their proposition on the ballot. I think they’d have about zero chance of that; but according to Parnell, seeking changes in the U.S. and Alaska constitutions to allow independence is itself unconstitutional, and therefore something that Alaskans can’t be allowed to vote on, or even sign up for.

The petition Parnell trashed was submitted by Scott Kohlhass and 242 others, including Lynette Clark, the chair of the Alaska Independence Party and a disciple of the late Alaska independence advocate Joe Vogler. …

In 2003 Parnell’s predecessor, Loren Leman, threw out a similar petition. Kohlhass sued, taking his case to the Alaska Supreme Court. The justices wrapped themselves in Old Glory before coming down on Kohlhass like a Mt. Roberts avalanche….

The logic of the court’s opinion goes like this: Kohlhass wants Alaska independence; independence is the same as secession, which is unconstitutional; therefore the Kohlhass initiative is unconstitutional. The full opinion uses the words “secede” and “secession” 26 times; read it yourself on the web at www.state.ak.us/courts/ops/sp-6087.pdf.

The hole in the court’s logic is that the initiative does not seek secession; indeed, the proposition Kohlhass wishes to gather signatures for never uses that word. Secession is a unilateral act, like South Carolina’s 1860 withdrawal from the Union. What Kohlhass and his associates seek is a constitutional change, so Alaska – with the consent of the people of Alaska and the U.S. – can become independent.

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Related:

Chuck Baldwin: Breakup Of U.S. Is Inevitable — State secession is the last best option

Ben Swann: Do States Actually Have The Right To Secede?

Why Texas would flourish as an independent Republic based on liberty, not debt (has interesting comments)

Michael Franti and Spearhead: Hey World (Don’t Give Up)

On January 19, 2009

In Michael Franti, Music Videos, War

Tell me why on the corner
all the kids that used to come to run here,
load their guns here

And tell me why it’s okay
to kill in the name of the gods we pray

Tell me who said it’s okay
to die in the name of the lies we say

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Michael Franti and Spearhead: “Rock The Nation”

On January 19, 2009

In Michael Franti, Music Videos

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Unfiltered News from Freedom Force International — Power to the People!

On January 19, 2009

Select, Ultra Vivid Headlines from G. Edward Griffin’s RealityZone.com

Constitutional eligibility for Obama to be President is being contested on three fronts. WND 2009 Jan 19 (Cached)

California Comptroller announces a stop to payments of tax refunds and welfare checks because state has run out of money. LATimes 2009 Jan 17 (Cached)

US: Unusually frigid weather grips Eastern states, expected to linger. Global warming, they say? weather.com 2009 Jan 16 (Cached)

Bank of America asks for additional billions of taxpayers’ money to purchase Merrill Lynch. Wait! If the politicians would give those billions to you and me, maybe WE can purchase Merrill Lynch. McClatchy 2009 Jan 15 (Cached)

US: Home foreclosures soar 81% in 2008. 2% of all households now involved – and numbers continue to increase. Reuters 2009 Jan 15 (Cached)

US: Black Angus, with 69 restaurants in 7 states, files for bankruptcy. Says diners are staying home. Bloomberg 2009 Jan 15 (Cached)

California faces insolvency within 3 weeks.
Reuters 2009 Jan 15 (Cached)

Ford, with plants in Mexico, Germany, and Spain, now begins producing cars in China. Sure nice of American politicians to bail out the company.
Raw Story 2009 Jan 15 (Cached)

US: Big Pharma tops list of industries lobbying Congress for legislative favors. Here is a list of the next nine. Mercola 2009 Jan 15 (Cached)

US: Supreme Court rules that evidence obtained illegally can be used in court if police claim they didn’t know they broke the law. How often do police admit breaking the law on purpose? The police state grows. Yahoo 2009 Jan 14 (Cached)

Gaza: Over 1000 killed and 4500 injured in first 19 days of Israeli assault. More than a third are children and women. Another third are non-combatant men. 13 Israelis have been killed from Hamas rockets.
BBC 2009 Jan 14 (Cached)

US: Vice Pres Cheney, when asked if loss of 4500 American lives in Iraq and over 100,000 Iraqi lives was worth it, he replied: “I think so.” Why? For the greater good of the greater number.
Think Progress 2009 Jan 14 (Cached)

US: Gannett, nation’s largest newspaper publisher, will lay off thousands of employees for one week in effort to stave off bankruptcy.
NYTimes 2009 Jan 14 (Cached)

Chicago has more continuous snowfall since records began in 1884. Global warming, no doubt.
Suburban Life 2009 Jan 14 (Cached)

Flint, Michigan temperature plummets to 19 below zero, lowest in 95 years. More global warming.
mlive 2009 Jan 14 (Cached)

US: Panel of state attorneys-general find that sexual solicitation of children over Internet is exaggerated in media and by politicians. That’s because fear of child abuse leads people to applaud increased government control over Internet. News Observer 2009 Jan 14 (Cached)

Federal Reserve Chief Bernanke says U.S. financial crisis worse than Japan’s “lost decade” but will copy Japan’s playbook even though it didn’t work.
GWBlog 2009 Jan 13 (Cached)

China: Suicide now the major cause of death among women in rural areas – which is the part of China not generally seen by tourists. Epoch Times 2009 Jan 12 (Cached)

US: Smithsonian Institute corrects label next to portrait of George Bush that erroneously linked 9/11 to the war in the Middle East. Many Americans still have it wrong. LATimes 2009 Jan 12 (Cached)

US: Real jobless rate now highest since end of WWII. Guardian Posted 2009 Jan 10 (Cached)

China’s stock market plunged more than 65% in 2008. Epoch Times Posted 2009 Jan 10 (Cached)

Ford, with plants in Mexico, Germany, and Spain, now begins producing cars in China. Sure nice of American politicians to bail out the company.
Raw Story 2009 Jan 15 (Cached)

US: Big Pharma tops list of industries lobbying Congress for legislative favors. Here is a list of the next nine. Mercola 2009 Jan 15 (Cached)

US: Supreme Court rules that evidence obtained illegally can be used in court if police claim they didn’t know they broke the law. How often do police admit breaking the law on purpose? The police state grows. Yahoo 2009 Jan 14 (Cached)

Kucinich: WE ACCEPT the Slaughter of the Innocent BECAUSE WE’VE ALREADY Slaughtered the Innocent

On January 17, 2009

In Dennis Kucinich, Ethics, George Bush Family, Israel, The Soul of America, War

No, I’m not talking about abortion (by how I worded this title). That was bad enough—sick enough!

We’ve moved to the next level, risen to the next disgrace, ascended to a far worse sickness—justifying, thinking, saying this is okay. And this is from the same people who cry “abortion is murder!”

Now we kill people who think deeply, who talk, who run and play—who, unlike the unborn, are accountable as to where they’ll spend eternity.

Even one homicide, one remote-controlled, joystick killing in the name of ‘self-defense,’ is too many—and we watch our President’s smugness as he leaves office. What a disgrace—laughing—having led US into impending doom.

What have we become—so high on our horse? Instead of reaching out to our ‘enemies,’ admitting the many ways we have been wrong, how we’ve bullied and spread filth around the world, we just kill them. We drive them away—into hating US.

And “America the Dysfunctional,” the big bully on the block, now sanctions and enables others to do likewise—leading by example.

America is sick, her heart has grown cold, having succumbed to the delusion The Moody Blues proclaimed in 1967:

Cold hearted orb
That rules the night
Removes the colours
From our sight
Red is gray and
Yellow white
But we decide
Which is right
And
Which is an Illusion

Our end is near, because Dennis’ words go unheard, speaking to an empty House, while America amuses herself to death.

______________

From: Congressman Dennis Kucinich

Washington, Jan 15 –

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza on the House Floor:

“The attack on the United Nations headquarters in Gaza is further proof that a post-legal era in world affairs has taken shape; where law and moral principles are irrelevant, where might makes right, where retribution and vengeance, even against innocent children, fails to shake us from moral lethargy or political paralysis.

“Collective punishment, disproportionate use of force, using U.S. planes, helicopters and munitions to attack a wounded, starved and thirsty civilian population of mostly children trapped in a box called Gaza has become acceptable, perhaps because we have already accepted the deaths of over one million innocent civilians in Iraq in a war based on lies.

“There is a way out. We must ask those who were given our armaments for defense to stop the aggression, end the blockade, end the occupation, and reconnect with the high sentiments that rallied their own suffering, wounded people to nationhood generations ago. When we recognize the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, when we come to grips with the reality of suffering on both sides, we may yet find a way to save ourselves.

Related:

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: “We were the MOST BELOVED nation on the face of the earth | We are now…the MOST HATED nation & FEARED nation on earth”

Roger Waters: “It was the Greatest Show On Earth … And when they found our shadows grouped ’round the TV sets … This species has AMUSED ITSELF TO DEATH”

On January 17, 2009

In Mind Control, The Soul of America

Amused to Death
Roger Waters

[…]

We watched the tragedy unfold
We did as we were told
We bought and sold
It was the greatest show on earth
But then it was over
We ohhed and aahed
We drove our racing cars
We ate our last few jars of caviar
And somewhere out there in the stars
A keen-eyed look-out
Spied a flickering light
Our last hurrah
Our last hurrah

And when they found our shadows
Grouped ’round the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then, the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death

No tears to cry, no feelings left
This species has amused itself to death

Related:

(video) Roger Waters on ‘Amused to Death’ – Profound album remixed — Do we love our neighbor enough to help bring in the kingdom ‘that the world will know?!!’

The Moody Blues (1967): America in 2009 — “Breath deep the gathering gloom; watch lights fade from every room” because “we decide which is right”

The Moody Blues (1967): America in 2009 — “Breath deep the gathering gloom; watch lights fade from every room” because “we decide which is right”

On January 17, 2009

In The Soul of America

Nights in White Satin epilogue, Late Lament: spoken by Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues in their amazing 1967 album, Days of Future Passed

Breath deep
The gathering gloom
Watch lights fade
From every room
Bedsitter people
Look back and lament
Another day’s useless
Energy spent

…

Cold hearted orb
That rules the night
Removes the colours
From our sight
Red is gray and
Yellow white
But we decide
Which is right
And
Which is an Illusion

Related:

Moody Blues: Say It With Love

Ron Paul: Bernanke Skips Congressional Hearings to Meet with International Banksters in Switzerland

On January 16, 2009

In $Money$ ToBeFree, Globalism—One-World Gov't

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Texas Congressman Ron Paul has slammed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for his decision to skip Congressional Financial Services hearings in favor of secretive meetings with European central bankers.

The hearings, which took place yesterday, incorporated discussions on the TARP funds, the additional $350 billion being requested by the Treasury from Congress.

“At the very last minute, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Bernanke has cancelled, as well as Sheila Bear, who is the chairwoman of the FDIC, she will not show up either.” Paul told viewers of his video blog on the Campaign for Liberty website.

“But here I find out that they have a much more important meeting,” the Congressman added with a degree of irony.

“They are going to Basel Switzerland to attend the meeting at the Bank of International Settlements, with other international bankers.” Paul explained.

The meetings in Basel, chaired by the European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet, have been ongoing this week, yet very little details over what has been discussed have emerged in the media.

“But here it is, an emergency meeting for them to run off to Europe and talk about monetary policy and who knows what. One thing for sure is that the people will never hear. As a matter of fact the people in the Congress won’t hear either.” Paul asserted.

“Who knows what they are planning?” The Congressman said. “I will do my darndest to find out what really went on at these meetings that they are holding over in Switzerland right now with all the central bankers.”

“All we do know is that at the very last minute Congress meant nothing to them for them to meet their commitment.” Paul added, pointing out that the pair also skipped meetings with the Financial Services Committee last Wednesday.

The Congressman explained that there is now an ongoing debate, over what should be done with the remaining bailout money, that has completely overshadowed the core issue of why the taxpayer is being asked to give up the money in the first instance.

Dr. Stan Interviews Robert Wilcox, “Target: Patton—The Plot to Assassinate General George S. Patton”

On January 15, 2009

In America's Getting Jacked!, Dr. Stanley Monteith, People, Real History, War

I’ve been hoping for this. Dr. Stanley Monteith is a war historian, par excellence, who sleuths out the story behind the story, and gets to the bottom of this very telling event with passionate, investigative author, Robert Wilcox in this one-hour interview.

Knowing the answer, Dr. Stan asks Robert why this book isn’t getting more national exposure.

Fascinating!

Radio Liberty archives

Date: 01-12-09
Hour: a – 1 hr.
3:00: Ted Anderson – Financial Update
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Hour: b – 1 hr.
4:00: Bob Chapman – The Economy & World Events
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Hour: c – 2 hrs.
8:00: Robert Wilcox – The Death of Gen. Patton 9:00: Jennifer Lahl – Use of Stem Cells
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Related: Had Only America Known: U.S. & Russian Intelligence Assassinated General Patton, Who Wanted to Free Eastern Europe Before Coming Home

Rudyard Kipling: “If”

On January 15, 2009

In Forgiving/Grudgless/No Hate, FreedomQuotes, Lying

Rudyard Kipling
1910

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream — and not make dreams your master;
If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings — nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run —
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And — which is more — you’ll be a Man, my son!

Tara and Bella, the Animal Odd Couple: If They Can Do It, Why Can’t We?

On January 14, 2009

In Animals, Fun–or–AMAZING Stuff!

“If they can do it, what’s our excuse?”

– Steve Hartman

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBtFTF2ii7U]

In this latest installment of CBS News Assignment America, Steve Hartman visits an animal sanctuary where a dog and an elephant have formed a very lasting, and unusual, friendship.

Related: My entire ONEcanhappen website

Making a Killing: The Psychotropic Drug Scam

On January 14, 2009

In $Money$ ToBeFree, America's Getting Jacked!, Health, Lying, Psychology

“The FDA admits that probably only 1% of all the adverse drug effects are actually reported by patients or physicians.”

– Dr. Gary Kohls

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sYhTdeLRM8]Part 1

Psychotropic drugs. It’s the story of big money–drugs that fuel a $330
billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure. The cost in human
terms is even greater–these drugs now kill an estimated 42,000 people
every year. And the death count keeps rising. Containing more than
175 interviews with lawyers, mental health experts, the families of victims
and the survivors themselves, this riveting documentary rips the mask
off psychotropic drugging and exposes a brutal but well-entrenched
money-making machine.

Chief Economist: It’s A Depression

On January 12, 2009

In The Greatest Depression?

From: Prison Planet

Professor Peter Morici, a former chief economist at the U.S. International Trade Commission, has become one of the first senior economists to admit that the U.S. is facing a 1930’s style depression.

Noting that 2.6 million payroll jobs have been lost since December 2007, Morici told financial publication Kiplinger that a 5 per cent contraction in the fourth quarter made the crisis “worse than a recession”.

“The economy will not recover without fundamental changes in banking and trade policy,” said Morici, an economics professor at Maryland University, “A large stimulus package, though necessary, will only give the economy a temporary lift,” he added. “The economy is in a depression, not a recession.”

A trickle of prominent analysts are now saying what people like Alex Jones and Peter Schiff were being called doomsayers for predicting over a year ago, that the U.S. faces a crisis on the scale of the 1930’s if not worse.

Morici’s summation dovetails the analysis of renowned financial publication The Economist, which reported earlier this month that, based on the characteristics of the current financial crisis, the U.S. is in a depression, not a recession.

On December 23rd, the IMF’s top economist, Olivier Blanchard, warned that falling confidence could turn a recession into a depression if market sentiment continued to dwindle.

HeartQuotes: Nature

On January 12, 2009

In HeartQuotes, Photography

Look deep

into nature,

and then you will understand everything

better.

– Albert Einstein

Click for Grand Canyon Version

Cheney: Bush Doesn’t Need to Apologize

On January 11, 2009

In George Bush Family, Lying

From: Fox News, Cheney Says Nobody Saw Economic Crisis Coming, 1/8/09

Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday that he sees no reason for President George W. Bush to pre-emptively pardon anyone at the CIA involved in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists. “I don’t have any reason to believe that anybody in the agency did anything illegal,” he said.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Cheney also said that Bush has no need to apologize for not foreseeing the economic crisis.

“I don’t think he needs to apologize. I think what he needed to do is take bold, aggressive action and he has,” Cheney said.

“I don’t think anybody saw it coming,” he said.

From: Think Progress, Cheney: No One Could Have Predicted The Financial Crisis, Just As No One Foresaw 9/11, 1/9/09

Oddly enough, in today’s White House press briefing, Deputy Press Secretary Scott Stanzel insisted that the Bush administration “saw those [financial] problems on the horizon,” but it was Congress’s fault for taking “a long time…to act.”

In reality, many economic experts — such as Nouriel Roubini, Dean Baker, and Paul Krugman — did predict the economic crisis; the Bush administration just wasn’t listening to them. In reality, administration officials often turned a “blind eye to the impending crisis.”

From: Huffington Post, Bush Administration Weakened Lending Rules Before Crash

The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown, according to an Associated Press review of regulatory documents.

Related: Andre Eggelletion: “What’s so wrong with admitting when you’re wrong?”

One-third of Gaza dead, injured are children

On January 11, 2009

gazsdddss

From: AP

UNITED NATIONS – Palestinian children are dying at a heavy rate in the Israeli-Hamas fighting — about one of every three persons killed, according to Gaza statistics.

As of Thursday, 257 children were among the approximately 760 reported dead in Gaza. There were another 1,080 children among the 3,100 injured in the conflict, according to statistics from Gaza’s health ministry.

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Kucinich: The Problem and the Solution — “The Federal Reserve is No More Federal Than Federal Express … Take That Power Back”

On January 10, 2009

In $Money$ ToBeFree, America's Getting Jacked!, Dennis Kucinich

[youtube=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AR2EtMteHCg]

“The banks have shown that they can’t be trusted with the American economy. That’s generally been the case, but now it’s out in the open, 350 billion dollars later.

In 1913, the money power of the country was taken away from the people — by Constitutional privilege it belongs with the Congress — but it was given up in the Federal Reserve Act.

The Federal Reserve is no more federal than Federal Express, but yet it has the power to determine the direction and use of money in our economy. If we could take that power back and put the Federal Reserve under Treasury, we start to be in a position of being able to control monetary policy on behalf of the United States people.

We also have to address the issue of the fractional reserve system, which is how banks create money out of thin air. And then, as they do that, they’ve created the conditions where we’ve had this kind of ponzi scheme collapsing — banks and the hedge funds working together.

So we have to halt the banks’ privilege to create money by ending the fractional reserve system. Past monetized credit would be converted into U.S. government money, and banks would act as intermediaries, accepting deposits and loaning them out to borrowers.”

Transcribed by Jeff Fenske

Related: Kucinich Rocks! “Instead of nationalizing banks, we should nationalize the money system”

FreedomQuotes: Goals

On January 10, 2009

In FreedomQuotes, Racism

“You measure the size of the accomplishment
by the obstacles you had to overcome
to reach your goals.”

– Booker T. Washington

Related: Goals Stream @ Successories

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