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McCain and the POW Cover-up: The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam

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On October 24, 2008

In John McCain, Lying, Media Bias Exposed, Real History, Republicans… Blackmailable

From: The Nation Institute

Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute. This is an expanded version, with primary documents attached, of a story that appears in the October 6, 2008 issue of The Nation.

By Sydney H. Schanberg
September 18, 2008

John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.

Almost as striking is the manner in which the mainstream press has shied from reporting the POW story and McCain’s role in it, even as the Republican Party has made McCain’s military service the focus of his presidential campaign. Reporters who had covered the Vietnam War turned their heads and walked in other directions. McCain doesn’t talk about the missing men, and the press never asks him about them.

The sum of the secrets McCain has sought to hide is not small.

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Related: Author Interviewed at Democracy Now! — Report: McCain Suppressed Info on Fellow Vietnam POWs Left Behind

Paul Craig Roberts: Government abandoned Vietnam POWs now COMPLETELY CONFIRMED! John McCain and others exposed!

John McCain: War Hero or Something Less? — ‘Songbird’ McCain’s cover up of Vietnam era POW sightings could have been driven by fear that some released prisoners might have unpleasant things to say about his activities while at Hoa Lo prison

8 Facts That Prove John McCain is an Unhinged Warmonger

(video) McCain Laughs, Sings “Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran”

(video) McCain Laughing About Killing Iranians Again

Ron Paul: Christian Just War Theory — “Evidently, I have been reading a different Bible. I remember something about ‘Blessed are the Peacemakers’”

Ron Paul’s Biggest Eye-Opener: ‘Christian’ Evangelicals Pushing Preemptive War in the Name of Spreading Christian ‘Love’

(video) Ron Paul Booed by Reverse-Christian Debate Audience for Endorsing the Golden Rule

Oppose Genetically Engineered Papayas!

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On October 23, 2008

In Health

From: True Food Network

Oppose GE Papayas!

COMMENTS NEEDED BY NOVEMBER 3rd TO STOP GE PAPAYA IN FLORIDA!

The US Department of Agriculture is accepting public comments between now and November 3, 2008 on a petition that would allow commercial growing and marketing of the first genetically engineered (GE) papaya trees on mainland US soil. If approved, this would remove all regulatory oversight of this GE variety by USDA of a virus-resistant papaya tree known as the Ring Spot Virus Resistant Papaya.

The USDA admits that this GE papaya will contaminate both organic and conventional non-genetically engineered papaya groves if it is approved. GE papaya pollen carried by wind, bees and other insects will contaminate the papaya groves of organic and conventional growers.

In Hawaii, a previously approved virus resistant [Hawaiian] papaya has caused extensive contamination of organic, conventional and wild papaya groves on most of the Hawaiian Islands in just a few years. This contamination has spread far more quickly than the USDA predicted in its initial assessment. Once native and cultivated papaya varieties are contaminated with transgenic pollen and the resulting seeds are planted, there is no calling it back.

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Biden Predicts an “International…Generated Crisis” Within 6 Months of Inauguration

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On October 23, 2008

In Barack Obama, Joe Biden

From: Prison Planet

What Will Obama’s “International Crisis” Be?

Joe Biden’s “guarantee” that an “international crisis” will unfold shortly after President Obama takes office conjures up several different possibilities, but it seems the likely outcome will revolve around an announcement that Iran has developed a nuclear bomb, prompting a potential military attack.

“It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy,” Biden told an audience in Seattle this past weekend.

“Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

The assured tone with which Biden delivered his forecast was staggeringly convincing, and left the observer in no doubt that there will be a major world crisis shortly after Obama takes office. “Mark my words, mark my words,” Biden stressed, adding that “tough” and “unpopular” foreign policy decisions will have to be made.“I promise you it will occur,” Biden added, “As a student of history and having served with seven presidents, I guarantee you it is going to happen.”

Biden’s use of the word “generated” is even more startling. One of the dictionary definitions we find for the word “generated” is “to bring into existence; cause to be; produce,” which begs the question, will this be another staged and manufactured crisis like the 9/11 attacks, which occurred less than 8 months after Bush took office?

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It’s Official: LIVE 3rd Party Debate Tonight on C-Span 2 (9pm Eastern)

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On October 23, 2008

In Chuck Baldwin

From: C-Span’s Home Page

LIVE 3rd Party Debate Tonight

Today

Tonight, Ralph Nader (I) & Chuck Baldwin (Constitution Party) meet in a 3rd Party debate, hosted by Free and Equal. This is Mr. Nader’s fourth presidential campaign. Mr. Baldwin is a radio talk show host and Baptist Minister.

It’s listed on today’s C-Span schedule to be aired at 9pm (Eastern) for 1.5 hours — C-Span 2.

From: http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=567806903

Debate
Third Party Presidential Candidate Debate
Free and Equal Elections
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
ID: 281952 – 10/23/2008 – 1:30 – No Sale

View in Video Library

Nader, Ralph Presidential Candidate, I, Independent
Hedges, Chris Senior Fellow, Nation Institute
Baldwin, Chuck Presidential Candidate, Constitution Party

Third party presidential candidates Ralph Nader and Chuck Baldwin had a debate. At the time of the debate, they were the only candidates whose appearance was confirmed.

Chris Hedges moderated the debate held in the Colonial Room at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel.

This debate is important because real solutions will actually be discussed here by candidates who aren’t bought and paid for, who could actually turn the destruction of America around; though, they’re completely ignored by even most pastors in this nation. So now it’s basically too late, having dissed Ron Paul as well, which is even more incredible, because Ron Paul really had a chance….

Ron-Paul-endorsed Chuck Baldwin has my vote. I will not vote for the destruction of this once great country, which McCain and Obama will almost certainly continue on the fast track.

Corporate Lying Example: Panasonic LX3 Lens Distortion Deception

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On October 22, 2008

In Lying, Photography

From: SeriousCompacts.com

Panasonic LX3 Lens Distortion

Here’s what Panasonic has to say about the LX3 lens:

… As a result of the F 2.0 lens, the DMC-LX3 produces high resolution and minimal distortion. ….

[test images]

It takes about a +15 distortion adjustment in the Photoshop lens correction tool to eliminate the barrel, and then one has to crop to ~88% in each dimension to get rid of the empty space. In 16:9 aspect, that cropping decreases the image from 8.9MP to roughly 7MP.

Panasonic has been open about the fact that they have been correcting lens distortion in camera for years now. Reviewers were impressed by the low distortion wide angle 18x zoom in the Panasonic FZ18. By leaving a bit of barrel distortion uncorrected and shipping both the LX3 and D-LUX 4 with a RAW converter that automatically applies the same correction as the in-camera processing, Panasonic has made it so that only a minority of reviewers and customers will take notice.

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Related:

I’m uncomfortable with Panasonic…

THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES’ DEBATE ON OCTOBER 23 IN WASHINGTON, DC

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On October 22, 2008

In Chuck Baldwin

From: Third Party Watch

Baldwin agrees to third-party debate

The following is a media release from the Chuck Baldwin (Constitution Party) presidential campaign:

THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES’ DEBATE ON OCTOBER 23 IN WASHINGTON, DC

Contact: Mary Starrett
Communications Director
Chuck Baldwin for President
Phone: (602) 315-6193
E-Mail: Mary@Baldwin2008.com

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

WASHINGTON, DC- Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-TX) choice for President is among those invited to a debate for all presidential candidates on Thursday, October 23, in Washington, D.C.

Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin ( www.Baldwin08.com) will join other third party candidates at the 90-minute forum, which is being sponsored by The Free and Equal Elections Coalition ( www.freeandequal.org).

The Third Party Presidential Candidates Debate will be held at 9 p.m. (EST) at the Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Ave., NW, in Washington, D.C.

A total of six presidential candidates who are on enough state ballots to be eligible to win the election have been invited to participate.

According to Ballot Access News ( www.ballot-access.org), the Constitution Party is the largest and fastest-growing third party based on voter registrations. The recent endorsement of CP candidate Chuck Baldwin by former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul has directed many of Paul’s supporters to Baldwin. See Ron Paul’s endorsement of Baldwin at http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=547 .

The 90-minute debate will focus on the issues that distinguish Chuck Baldwin from the major and minor party presidential candidates in the race: opposition to the so-called ‘bail-outs’, opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, support for secure borders, the overturning of Roe v Wade, and a return to limited, Constitutional government.

In addition to Baldwin, the other invited candidates are Republican Party nominee John McCain, Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama, Independent Ralph Nader, the Green Party’s Cynthia McKinney, and the Libertarian Party’s Bob Barr.

Source

Why the Bailout Could Not, Will Never Work

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On October 22, 2008

In $Money$ ToBeFree

G. Edward Griffen’s title for this video:

US: The debt bubble is greater that the value of the entire Earth – and taxpayers now are forced by their own leaders to pay the losses. When will we stop voting for Republicans and Democrats who jointly did this to us?

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9-tBGxVU6o]

Voters are rightly furious at the proposal to spend $700,000,000,000 that the government doesn’t have to bail out Wall Street bankers who created the current economic crisis in the first place. But why then aren’t we concerned about the trillions of dollars the Federal Reserve is pumping into the system? Or the trillions missing from the Pentagon? Or the quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble.

HeartQuotes: Frontier

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On October 22, 2008

In HeartQuotes

“Where there is an open mind,
there will always be a frontier.”

– Charles F. Kettering

Click for Crested Butte Version

MTV’s Martial Law Warnings

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On October 20, 2008

In Freedom

[youtube=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=reCpV1YHuYs]

Devvy: Sarah Palin: Buying the Sizzle

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On October 20, 2008

In John McCain, Sarah Palin

From: News with Views

Once you get past the sizzle….

Douglas Herman, wrote a very factual ‘Open Letter of Disgust to Governor Sarah Palin.’ Herman skillfully went to the heart of Palin’s war mongering and lack of facts on geopolitical issues.

In my first column about Palin, I said she was being given a crash education on foreign policy. The only problem is — who is doing the educating? The same dirty traitors who have sold us and our sovereignty to the highest bidders for more war and death: Palin to meet Henry Kissinger. […]

It is obvious I have little respect for Sarah Palin as a candidate. In my opinion, she is a political animal with big ambitions. This woman smells power and she wants it, badly. Palin admires a despicable man like McCain who sold out our POW/MIAs, left to die in commie prison camps. She stands next to McCain and gushes what a war hero he is and how we should all endorse his love of war (bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran) and the unconstitutional, immoral invasion of Iraq. Palin is his running mate. She endorses his platform. People should remember that.

Lots of folks keep sending me email wondering why Palin or McCain don’t talk about illegal immigration? Are you kidding? Anyone who hasn’t been on another planet for the past few years knows McCain has worked tirelessly to support this massive invasion and protect the 15-20 million illegals here in our country. The blood of tens of thousands of Americans slaughtered by illegals drips from his hands. McCain doesn’t want to talk about this invasion anymore than Obama wants to talk about his birth certificate.

Sarah Palin is dangerous because she isn’t qualified for the job of VP or president. What I presented above is just a small sampling of why. Americans should know these candidates, what they stand for and their experience. I am fully aware come election day when another giant hoax will be perpetrated upon the American people, that tens of millions of Republicans will vote for McCain to keep Obama out of the White House. Putting a Marxist like Obama in the White House would be a nightmare words can’t describe. Many will vote for McCain because they willfully believe his lies. Many will vote for McCain hoping the ‘until death do us part” comes sooner rather than later so Palin can step into the Oval Office. Be careful what you wish for….

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Sunday on C-Span [Maybe??]: 3rd-Party Candidates Debate — Chuck Baldwin, Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader (8pm Eastern)

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On October 19, 2008

In Chuck Baldwin

[UPDATE]

C-span doesn’t have this listed in their schedule. And none of the sites of the three candidates have it listed either. This site says it’s happening but may not air live, and that Amy Goodman will moderate.

But C-span2 apparently will air Jesse Ventura speaking about his book: “Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me” at 6pm (eastern).

From: Common Dreams

WASHINGTON – Third-party presidential candidates finally will have their own debate: at 8 p.m. Sunday at Columbia University in New York.

The debate, which will be announced Wednesday, will include at least three of the four third-party candidates – independent Ralph Nader, the Green Party’s Cynthia McKinney and the Constitution Party’s Chuck Baldwin. Libertarian Party nominee Bob Barr said he has a scheduling conflict, but debate organizers say he wanted to appear only with Nader. (Democratic nominee Barack Obama and Republican nominee John McCain are also invited.)

Nader and Barr are on the ballot in 45 states, while the Green Party is on 31 state ballots and the Constitution Party is on the ballot in 37 states. Nader and McKinney also are on the District of Columbia ballot.

Organizers say the debate is an important exercise in democracy, especially because the debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates (the last of which is Wednesday night) exclude candidates scoring below 15 percent in national polls. Nader, the best known of the candidates, has an average of 2.5 percent in recent national polls, according to realclearpolitics.com, while Barr averages 1.5 percent.

Nader … “two-thirds of the people don’t know we’re running.”

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FreedomQuote: Bombed People Know Better

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On October 19, 2008

In FreedomQuotes, War

“It’s hard to convince people
that you’re killing them
for their own good.”

– Attributed to Molly Ivans on this this bumper sticker

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“It’s hard to convince people you are bombing
that you’re doing it for their own good.”

– Molly Ivans, Dec. 2001

FreedomQuotes: If We Don’t Change Directions…

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On October 18, 2008

In FreedomQuotes

“If we don’t change directions
we’ll end up where we’re going.”

The Bumper Sticker

Ron Paul: Washington’s True Maverick — Talks Bailouts, the US Constitution & Re-Making the US Dollar

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On October 18, 2008

In $Money$ ToBeFree, Ron Paul

From: PR.com

Often called the most honest man in Washington, Ron Paul, the unsinkable Congressman from Texas’s fourteenth district, has positioned himself as resident watchdog for the United States Constitution. Ron Paul holds a point of view that, although echoing the wording of our nation’s founding fathers, rings downright alien to the United States government of today.

We are now living in a nation where Federal social and economic programs are our government, where our currency status hinges on the stock market rather than the gold standard and where our current President has taken more liberties with the United States constitution than any other President in our country’s history. Under these circumstances, Ron Paul just doesn’t seem to fit in. Reason being: we’ve grown accustomed to, and quite comfortable with, large Federal government and the act of re-shaping laws for convenience. …

A former physician and devoted family man who never waivers in his beliefs, this quote from RonPaulFacts.com eloquently and humorously sums it up, “Ron Paul is 9 feet tall, but the weight of his conscience makes him look shorter.”

During my conversation with Ron Paul I took every opportunity to get a Washington veteran’s perspective on our current financial crisis, the seven hundred billion dollar “rescue package” which flip flopped its way through the House of Representatives, the value of the U.S. dollar, McCain and Obama politics and the future of our economy.

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John McCain calls JFK’s assassination an “intervention”

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On October 17, 2008

In John McCain, Psychology

From: InfoWars

From the final presidential debate of the campaign. terrifying during the debate was the moment when John McCain was comparing himself and Obama to Goldwater and Jack Kennedy when he described JFK’s assassination as something like this: “the intervention…” (eyes open wide, eyebrows high, grabs nose) “…err tragedy in Dallas…”

Of course it was an intervention– in economic terms it would be a “correction” from the point of view of the continuing government, to replace the errant president.

“Intervention” is a well known C.I.A. term for an assassination operation, and also commonly phrased in terms of military interventions.

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

Global Cooling: Alaskan Glaciers Grow For First Time In 250 Years

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On October 17, 2008

In Alaska, Climate Change

From: Prison Planet

Plans to implement a worldwide carbon tax in the name of saving the planet from global warming have taken another blow after it was revealed that Alaskan glaciers have grown for the first time in 250 years after an abnormally cool summer.

Now that the planet has naturally exited a warming trend and is hading towards a new “big chill,” as evidenced by the near complete halt in sunspot activity, the glaciers are expanding once again.

Temperatures 3 degrees below average caused winter snow to remain for longer, prompting the increase in glacial mass, reports the Daily Tech.

“Since 1946, the USGS has maintained a research project measuring the state of Alaskan glaciers. This year saw records broken for most snow buildup. It was also the first time since any records began being that the glaciers did not shrink during the summer months,” according to the report.

The biggest shrinkage witnessed in the region occurred between 1741 and 1900, during which the glaciers lost about 15 per cent of their total mass as the earth began to exit the climatological period coined the Little Ice Age.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but CO2 spewing cars and jumbo jets were not too prevalent in the 18th and 19th centuries.

And now that the planet has naturally exited a warming trend and is heading towards a new “big chill,” as evidenced by the near complete halt in sunspot activity, the glaciers are expanding once again.

Years more growth in the Alaskan glaciers “might mark the beginning of another Little Ice Age,” notes the report.

The expansion of the glaciers follows a similar occurrence in the Arctic, which has undergone an ice cover growth twice the size of Germany in the past year, a gain of about thirteen percent following a colder than usual year.

Man-made global warming adherents have attempted to downplay such instances as aberrations that defy a wider warming trend, but in reality no global warming has been observed since at least 1999 or even 1995, as University of Finland professor Jarl R. Ahlbeck maintains.

Evidence that the planet is tip-toeing towards the onset of a new mini ice age continues to present itself following unprecedented ice storms in Kenya as well as Sydney experiencing its coldest August for 60 years.

The cold snap arrives on the back of the Sun reaching a milestone not observed in nearly 100 years – the entire month of August passed without a single sunspot being noted.

Lack of solar activity in 2008 has coincided with evidence of a cooling trend across the world.

Earlier this year, China experienced its coldest winter in 100 years while northeast America was hit by record snow levels and Britain suffered its coldest Easter in decades as late-blooming daffodils were pounded with hail and snow on an almost daily basis. The British summer also left many yearning for global warming, with temperatures in June and July rarely struggling to get over 16 degrees and on one occasion even dropping as low as 9 degrees in the middle of the afternoon.

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Related:

Anchorage Daily News: Bad weather was good for Alaska glaciers which grew in mass

Anchorage, Alaska’s ‘Summer’ of 2008 Record: Only 2 Days Above 69 Degrees

Sun’s Power Hits New Low, May Endanger Earth?

New Sunspots Suggest “We are Not Stuck in a Permanent Solar Minimum”

Anchorage Daily News: Bad weather was good for Alaska glaciers which grew in mass

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On October 17, 2008

In Alaska, Climate Change

From: Anchorage Daily News

Two hundred years of glacial shrinkage in Alaska, and then came the winter and summer of 2007-2008.

Unusually large amounts of winter snow were followed by unusually chill temperatures in June, July and August. …

Never before in the history of a research project dating back to 1946 had the Juneau Icefield witnessed the kind of snow buildup that came this year. It was similar on a lot of other glaciers too.

“It’s been a long time on most glaciers where they’ve actually had positive mass balance,” Molnia said.

That’s the way a scientist says the glaciers got thicker in the middle. …

During the Little Ice Age — roughly the 16th century to the 19th — Muir Glacier filled Glacier Bay and the people of Europe struggled to survive because of difficult conditions for agriculture. Some of them fled for America in the first wave of white immigration.

The Pilgrims established the Plymouth Colony in December 1620. By spring, a bitterly cold winter had played a key role in helping kill half of them. Hindered by a chilly climate, the white colonization of North America through the 1600s and 1700s was slow. …

The difference in temperature between the Little Ice Age and these heady days of American expansion?

About three or four degrees, Molnia said.

The difference in temperature between this summer in Anchorage — the third coldest on record — and the norm?

About three degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

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Related:

Global Cooling: Alaskan Glaciers Grow For First Time In 250 Years

Anchorage, Alaska’s ‘Summer’ of 2008 Record: Only 2 Days Above 69 Degrees

Sun’s Power Hits New Low, May Endanger Earth?

New Sunspots Suggest “We are Not Stuck in a Permanent Solar Minimum”

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: A Futile Bailout as Darkness Falls on America

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On October 16, 2008

In $Money$ ToBeFree

From: CounterPunch

America has become a pretty discouraging place. Americans, for the most part, will never know what happened to them, because they no longer have a free and responsible press. They have Big Brother’s press. For example, on September 28, 2008, a New York Times editorial blamed the current financial crisis on “antiregulation disciples of the Reagan Revolution.”

What utter nonsense. Every example of deregulation that the New York Times editorial provides is located in the Clinton Administration and the George W. Bush administration. I was a member of the Reagan administration. We most certainly did not deregulate the financial system.

The repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial from investment banking, was the achievement of the Democratic Clinton Administration. It happened in 1999, over a decade after Reagan left office.

It was in 2000 that derivatives and credit default swaps were excluded from regulation.

The greatest mistake was made in 2004, the year that Reagan died. That year the current Secretary of the Treasury, Henry M. Paulson Jr, was head of the investment bank Goldman Sachs. In the spring of 2004, the investment banks, led by Paulson, met with the Securities and Exchange Commission. At this meeting with the New Deal regulatory agency tasked with regulating the US financial system, Paulson convinced the SEC Commissioners to exempt the investment banks from maintaining reserves to cover losses on investments. The exemption granted by the SEC allowed the investment banks to leverage financial instruments beyond any bounds of prudence.

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Oil Prices Tumble Below $69 a Barrel

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On October 16, 2008

In $Money$ ToBeFree, Energy

From: AP, 10/16/08

NEW YORK (AP) — Oil briefly plunged below $69 a barrel Thursday, bringing its price to less than half its July record high after the government reported massive increases in U.S. crude and gasoline supplies.

Investors took the news as more evidence that a global credit crisis and a shaky economy are curbing demand for oil, which at one point Thursday fell to its lowest level in nearly 16 months.

At the pump, a gallon of regular gasoline shed another 4 cents overnight to a new national average of $3.084, according to auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express. At this rate, the national average could fall below $3 by the weekend.

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FreedomQuotes: Vigilance

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On October 16, 2008

In FreedomQuotes

“Your indifference
today
will determine the magnitude of your suffering
tomorrow.”

– unknown

Airport admits ‘strip search’ body scanners WILL show people naked

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On October 16, 2008

In Freedom, Naked Body Scanners

From: Daily Mail

Cheryl Johnson, general manager of the Office of Transport Security, said: ‘It will show the private parts of people, but what we’ve decided is that we’re not going to blur those out, because it severely limits the detection  capabilities.’

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Total Bailout Cost Heads Towards $5 TRILLION [Iraq War Only $560 Billion]

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On October 16, 2008

In $Money$ ToBeFree

From: InfoWars

The total potential cost of the financial bailout to the U.S. taxpayer is already rapidly approaching $5 trillion, over seven times as much as the meaningless $700 billion bailout bill figure.

Analysts have previously marked out the $5 trillion figure as the actual cost, now those predictions are becoming demonstratively accurate.

Meanwhile, Hank Paulson has defended government intervention, stating “There’s no doubt that the way to get the maximum bang for the taxpayers here was to invest in banks.”

Based on this Reuters summary and the sources linked within the table, here is a breakdown of the bailout’s cost to taxpayers so far.

See Table & Entire Article

G. Edward Griffin: “ZEITGEIST ADDENDUM” — A CRITICAL REVIEW

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On October 16, 2008

In Freedom, G. Edward Griffin

From: Freedom Force International

ZEITGEIST ADDENDUM – A CRITICAL REVIEW
© 2008 by G. Edward Griffin. Updated 2008 October 13

Hello Mr. Griffin. I’m sure you have heard of the popular movie on the internet, Zeitgeist. It had three separate parts about Christianity being fake, the Federal Reserve being a conspiracy and bad, and that the government was involved in 9/11. Well the sequel just came out, Zeitgeist Addendum, and it seems very dangerous. This movie screams controlled opposition/false solution propaganda more than anything I have ever seen.

The movie starts off with why the Federal Reserve is bad. It seems to latch onto valid concerns that the freedom movement/Ron Paul supporters have been worried about. But its solution is really, really bad and is already sending a lot of people in the wrong direction. It goes on to say that money is evil and has caused every problem in the world. If only we abolished all money and private property everything would be great. All resources should collectively belong to all humans of the world. Intelligent management of resources and technology could allow everyone to be free. The world would turn into some utopia. All crime would go away and greed and corruption would go away. We should be a one world community. It even specifically says that voting for liberty candidates like Ron Paul is the wrong thing to do. I guess we should give up all hope and let bad politicians do whatever they want to us.

It is full of doublespeak, wild assumptions, and crazy socialist propaganda. It also put in more about how religion is bad. I am convinced this thing was specifically made to stop the liberty movement from achieving anything. It puts in just enough truths that we believe in to trick people into following the wrong path.

I think statements about what is wrong with this film from liberty organizations like Freedom Force International would do a lot of good and would prevent some people from going in the wrong direction. Some people might think the best idea is to just ignore it and it will go away. But it appears to be incredibly popular online and gaining support. Even the most popular Ron Paul website posted the video. And the most popular Ron Paul message board has three threads with hundreds of posts talking about it. Here is the video link.
Jonathan, 2008 Oct 6

REPLY FROM E.G.:

Jonathan, I don’t like to criticize anything that is helping to spread the truth about the Federal Reserve and 9/11 but I must agree with the substance of what you have said about this video. I watched it two nights ago and was deeply disturbed by its message. At first, I thought it would be best to just let it play itself out in expectation that most viewers would cross it off as whacky. However, the production value is high, the effects and sound score are compelling, and there is enough truth embedded in the beginning to capture the attention and possibly the trust of many within the freedom movement. So here are my comments on a few items of concern: ….

Read G. Edward Griffin’s Entire Response

Related:

Zeitgeist Refuted [Final Cut]: Film refutes part 1 of Zeitgeist, which distorts history to portray Jesus as a myth

Zeitgeist | The Response

[7-minute video] Did Zeitgeist Destroy Your Faith In Jesus Christ (Jesus vs Horus) — This online movie has single handedly wounded and infiltrated the truth movement by telling truths about politics but lying about the Salvation of all men!

Mark Dice: Christophobics, Jesus Haters, and Zeitgeist’s Claim that “Jesus Never Even Existed”

“Did Christianity Really Come From Zoroastrianism?” — If any borrowing was done, it was likely Zoroastrianism borrowing from Judaism/Christianity

(video series) Judaism influenced Zoroastrianism — Not the other way around

Devvy: Final looting of America by outlaws in DC

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On October 16, 2008

In Freedom

From: News with Views

Outlaw is defined as: a person, group, or thing excluded from the benefits and protection of the law. Americans who care about freedom and liberty have known for a long time that Congress has simply become a lawless group of political animals who care nothing for the supreme law of the land. For decades they have turned a blind eye to other outlaws operating on their behalf: non elected officials in the various cabinets and agencies who have been destroying a free market system and the Bill of Rights. The list is so long, it would fill ten columns.

For weeks, Americans have been in agony over the financial meltdown millions of us knew was coming, we just didn’t know when the numbers would catch up to the lies. The timing played just right with the normally scheduled adjournment of Congress for the year. For over a week, the massive ACORN vote fraud scandal has exposed what millions of us have known for a long time: our elections are being stolen by corruption. Corporate media has concentrated on voter registration cards, but continues to ignore the massive fraud via electronic machines and scanners; short video. The timing of the ACORN scandal plays right into the hands of the shadow government. Too little, too late with the “big day” looming. Another night of serious boob tube commentators analyzing a hoax.

The unconstitutional, immoral invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan continues because the number one issue with Americans today is how will they put food on the table tomorrow? Obama has come out with more ideas to tax you into poverty. McCain is promoting his ideas about keeping the income tax alive and well with more unconstitutional hair brained ideas; his latest idiocy carries a price tag of $52 billion dollars. Yesterday, Sarah Palin, shouted at a rally, “We will balance the budget in our first term.” What hogwash.

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Dow Suffers Worst Week in 112-Year History

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On October 15, 2008

In $Money$ ToBeFree

From: Wall Street Journal, 10/11/08

The Dow Jones Industrial Average capped the worst week in its 112-year history with its most volatile day ever, as hopes for a major international bank-rescue plan were overwhelmed at day’s end by another wave of selling.

Some investors who normally would be jumping to buy beaten-down stocks after a 22% drop over eight trading days said the relentless declines have left them shell-shocked and unwilling to take new risks. Some spent the day trying to protect themselves from further declines.

The Dow fell 697 points shortly after the opening bell, and remained down most of the day. It surged to a 322-point advance less than half an hour before the close. …

This week’s 18% decline, and Friday’s 1018.77-point swing from low to high, were the biggest since the Dow was created in 1896. Until now, the Dow’s worst week was in 1933.

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Make-Believe Maverick: A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty

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On October 15, 2008

In John McCain, Lying, Republicans… Blackmailable, Torture

From: Rolling Stone

This is the story of the real John McCain, the one who has been hiding in plain sight. It is the story of a man who has consistently put his own advancement above all else, a man willing to say and do anything to achieve his ultimate ambition: to become commander in chief, ascending to the one position that would finally enable him to outrank his four-star father and grandfather.

In its broad strokes, McCain’s life story is oddly similar to that of the current occupant of the White House. John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity. Both developed an uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with a minimum of mental exertion. Both struggled with booze and loutish behavior. At each step, with the aid of their fathers’ powerful friends, both failed upward. And both shed their skins as Episcopalian members of the Washington elite to build political careers as self-styled, ranch-inhabiting Westerners who pray to Jesus in their wives’ evangelical churches. …

This, of course, is not the story McCain tells about himself. Few politicians have so actively, or successfully, crafted their own myth of greatness. …

Then there’s torture — the issue most related to McCain’s own experience as a POW. In 2005, in a highly public fight, McCain battled the president to stop the torture of enemy combatants, winning a victory to require military personnel to abide by the Army Field Manual when interrogating prisoners. But barely a year later, as he prepared to launch his presidential campaign, McCain cut a deal with the White House that allows the Bush administration to imprison detainees indefinitely and to flout the Geneva Conventions’ prohibitions against torture.

What his former allies in the anti-torture fight found most troubling was that McCain would not admit to his betrayal. Shortly after cutting the deal, McCain spoke to a group of retired military brass who had been working to ban torture. According to Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former deputy, McCain feigned outrage at Bush and Cheney, as though he too had had the rug pulled out from under him. “We all knew the opposite was the truth,” recalls Wilkerson. “That’s when I began to lose a little bit of my respect for the man and his bona fides as a straight shooter.”

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Vitamin D Deficiency Linked to Parkinson’s

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From: The Scotsman

LACK of vitamin D is significantly associated with Parkinson’s disease, a study has shown.

Scientists found that lower blood levels of the vitamin were more common in people with Parkinson’s than healthy individuals. But whether vitamin D deficiency was a cause of Parkinson’s or resulted from it still had to be determined.

The part of the brain most affected by the disease is highly sensitive to vitamin D, suggesting that the vitamin may be important to this region.

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Father, forgive me, I will not fight for your Israel—Omer Goldman, daughter of a former Mossad chief, tells why she prefers jail to the military draft

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From: Times Online

Omer Goldman is a pretty girl, slender as a model. Never still, very restless, she is filled with anxiety by the expected loss of her freedom. For months before she refused to be drafted into the Israel Defence Forces, she went to a psychologist every week to prepare for what was to come: incarceration in a cell in a military prison. …

Omer told me that the crucial moment of her metamorphosis occurred this year when she went to a Palestinian village where the Israeli army had set up a roadblock. Someone she had considered her enemy all her life stood beside her and someone who was supposed to be defending her opened fire at her.

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Anchorage Daily News: Palin’s response to Troopergate report is ‘downright Orwellian’

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In Lying, Sarah Palin

From: Think Progress

Over the weekend, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) reacted to the Troopergate report by claiming that she did “nothing unlawful or unethical.” “I’m very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing…any hint of any kind of unethical activity there,” Palin said on Saturday. Today, Palin’s home state paper, the Anchorage Daily News, calls out her lie:

Sarah Palin’s reaction to the Legislature’s Troopergate report is an embarrassment to Alaskans and the nation. … Her response is either astoundingly ignorant or downright Orwellian.

Page 8, Finding Number One of the report says: “I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.”

In plain English, she did something “unlawful.” She broke the state ethics law. […]

Palin’s response is the kind of political “big lie” that George Orwell warned against. War is peace. Black is white. Up is down.

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Lies Won’t Save Us This Time: USA Now $55 Trillion in Debt (nearly $500,000 per household!)

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In $Money$ ToBeFree, Lying

From: News with Views

The hard cold fact is the USA is now over 50 Trillion Dollars in debt counting off budget obligations.

While our Senators and Representatives “Fiddle” the rest of us are feeling the heat from the flames as we reenter the atmosphere from fiscal fantasy back to reality.

It may come as no surprise to you that there aren’t enough trees on earth to print the paper currency required to amount to 55 Trillion dollars in normal denominations of fives, tens and 20’s etc.

You may be further shocked knowing that every household in America now owes nearly $500,000.00

Aside from the harsh reality that we really are up the proverbial creek without a paddle, the solutions to the problems, which are obvious, are lost on the scoundrels who created the mess to begin with.

Let me shock you scoundrels by letting you in on a little secret … “You cannot borrow your way out of debt” ….

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