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Glenn Beck to Speak Wednesday June 19th at a Rally at the Capital

June 18, 2013 in "Bill of Rights", Abuse of Power, Amnesty, Border Security, Constitution, Glenn Beck, Illegal Aliens, Immigration, IRS Targeting, Liberty in Jeopardy, Obamanation, President Obama, United States Sovereignty by Admin1

Glenn Beck WashingtonThis Wednesday, June 19, in Washington D.C. there will be an open forum that will feature “border security, anti-amnesty members of Congress.” The debate is slated for 9AM to 12PM and then again from 2PM to 5PM. In between, members of Congress will join with an already-planned Tea Party rally against the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative organizations. Glenn will be joining the event and speaking at noon.

“There are 70 Republicans now in congress that we sent there,” Glenn said. “They’re standing up this week and they’re about to be slaughtered.”

“I think there will be five people in Washington this week on Wednesday because it’s, you know, it’s a Wednesday. It’s in the middle of the week. Who does this? It’s costing me a fortune to be able to get the TV and everybody up there to be able to ‑‑ to be able to just cover it, let alone speak up there. I’m flying a few of my pastors and my priests and my rabbi friends up with me for an announcement with the Black‑Robe Regiment. That’s not something I want to do. Last thing I want to do is get back on an airplane and travel up to Washington D.C. and stand there and be a part of that.”

“There are many things I don’t believe in anymore, and Washington is one of them. And I despise that city now. Because it has just become a symbol of corruption to me, a symbol of grotesque growth, where the rest of us are suffering in the rest of the country,” he said.

“But I will go and stand, and I ask you to do the same.”

Glenn has not asked people to attend an event like this in Washington, D.C. since Restoring Honor on August 28, 2010.

Later in the show, Glenn explained why he thought it was so important to be in D.C. for this event:

 

We’re not different. We’re not different than each other. We’re in different places. Our country is at stake. We’re not enemies of each other. We’re actually winning.

The president’s poll numbers with the youth down in a month 17%. Why? Don’t trust anyone over 30. They see through it. They see. Finally they see this guy is just as bad, if not worse than the last guy. Everything he has said to us is a lie. But time is running out because they’re also, the progressives on the Republicans and the democratic side, if we would spend less time arguing with each other on who’s better, the Republicans or the Democrats, and we would start talking about the real issues which is not conservative and liberal it is constitutionalist or progressive maybe we wouldn’t have had this problem. Maybe we wouldn’t have this problem because we’re not that far apart as people. But we have been used. By the global corporations, by the media, by those in power, by those elites, by those who think they know better, by those who look at the American people like cattle. I am not a cow. I am not a sheep. I am not on your farm. You are not my rancher. You are not, definitely not my shepherd. I do not answer to your voice. I only answer to one voice.

The American people have been betrayed and have betrayed ourselves, through our apathy and through our willingness to give other people the responsibility. I’m sorry, but the responsibility, I’ve been told a million times you can’t run faster than a man has strength. Well, God, give me strength. And when I see somebody else step up to the plate, I will so gladly go away. When I see somebody else say “I’m going to do it” and they have the opportunity to do it and the means to do it, I will so gladly give it to them. You can have my F’in’ company. You can have it. I don’t care! Show up! I don’t see anybody.

I thought of this last week. Somebody said… about Martin Luther King. And they said, what about Martin Luther King’s lifestyle? Because Martin Luther King, he was dicey with women and everything else. Yeah, he was. That shows you how desperate God gets sometimes. That shows you how weak we are sometimes. Because I know all the good guys. All the good guys were probably saying, “I don’t want all that trouble. I don’t want to give all this up. I don’t want to no, cause too much, it will cause too much of a hassle, it will cause this, it will cause that.” And so he gets down to the list and finally he’s got to go to somebody who’s a philanderer, finally he’s got to go a guy who’s an alcoholic, finally he’s got to go to somebody who doesn’t know their ass from their elbow, but they’ll stand up! Boy, you want to talk about making weak things strong, here we are, gang. Don’t tell me about how we’ve got to be positive. I understand we have to be positive, with you we also have to be realists. “Hey, let’s be positive. Let’s make sure that everybody knows we’re all going to make it.” No. We’re on the Titanic. Not all of us are going to make it. And unless you have some urgency, we’re all going to die. We’re all gonna die. How’s that one? Play some music. Play some music once everybody’s in the boats. Play some music. If you can play some music and help people get into the boats in a rational way, great. Play some music. But if you’re playing some music just to make everybody, like, “relax, everything is good,” it’s not good. The boat’s sinking.

We’re all in this together. We’re all in this together. We really are. And we will make it as long as we have each other. As long as we don’t tear each other apart.

 


 

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The Time has Come to Resurrect The Sons of Liberty

June 13, 2013 in "Bill of Rights", 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, Abuse of Power, America's Heritage, Amnesty, Anarchy, Benghazi Gate, Congress, Constitution, EBT Cards, Economic Deception, Eric Holder, Founding Principles, Freedom, Glenn Beck, Illegal Aliens, Immigration, Intimidation, Liberty, Liberty in Jeopardy, Mitch McConnell, Political Courage, President Obama, Progressivism, Redistribution of Wealth, Republicans Vs. Tea Party, Socialism, Speaker John Boehner, United States Sovereignty, Welfare by Admin1

PatriotsThe time has come to resurrect The Sons of Liberty.

We have been hearing for weeks now that the Republican Establishment, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker John Boehner have cooked up an Amnesty Deal. A Deal that will be surreptitiously enacted in the House and Senate such that the final Conference Bill will be passed in the Senate by the Democrat Majority and in the House by a mix of all Democrats and Republican Establishment defectors who will be well rewarded by being allowed to retain their Committee Chairmanships’.

 

The Deal came into the open on the Glenn Beck show when modern-day Patriots Representatives Michele Bachmann (Minn.), Steve King (Iowa) and Louie Gohmert (Texas) along with 67 other stalwarts determined that they could not go along with the deception and decided to risk their careers in a showdown with Boehner.  Read more here Now that the deception has been made public, Speaker Boehner is saying that he doesn’t “intend” to push a bill that violates Republican Party “principles.”

 

Don’t be deceived by the Boehner’s latest ruse.  He fully intends to implement the Deal, unless “We the People”, take back our government. We have to have patience.  We are now engaged in a battle for survival for our way of life. If you value the future for your children and grandchildren, then you must become engaged and stick it out as long as it takes to convince our political class that we have had it and it is Speaker Boehner and the Republicans that defect that will bear the angst of the citizenry.

 

Remember first and foremost that these 70 brave souls have placed their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor on the line for us. We must in turn protect their backs from the administrators of this deception, both now and the future.  We cannot allow the retribution that was delivered to Colonel Allen West to befall any of our brave patriots.

On June 19th you will have an opportunity to stand up against Amnesty and all the other reprehensible scandals that have rocked your faith  in our government by joining  Representatives Michele Bachmann , Steve King  and Louie Gohmert, in front of the U.S. Capital. If you can’t be there physically, you can use the occasion to call your Representatives and Senators as well as to voice  support for the 70 Representatives’  who are demanding that the Speaker honor the  Hastert Rule that requires  support from a majority of the majority to bring a bill forward.

Our way of life has been gradually under attack and sometimes we may feel that there is nothing that we can do. However, our Constitution gives the power to the people and we must make it clear to all our elected Representatives that we will exercise that power to rid our country once and for all from Amnesty, that promises to bankrupt our nation, from surveillance that threatens our Personal Liberty, and from corrupt, anti-Constitutional officials and bureaucrats that threaten our life, our liberty and our pursuit of happiness.

 


 

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Amnesty Vote Scheduled in Senate

June 7, 2013 in Abuse of Power, Amnesty, Constitution, Founding Principles, Illegal Aliens, Immigration, Liberty in Jeopardy, Political Deception, President Obama, United States Constitution by Admin1

Urgent  Action Request!

Senate will hold first vote on Gang of 8′s amnesty bill on

Tuesday June 11 at 2:15 p.m

no_amnesty_wall_clockA group of law enforcement officers and officials from across the nation have co-written a letter to all Members of Congress warning them that the Gang of Eight’s amnesty bill would endanger public safety if it is passed.

Please send a fax to your U.S. Senators and Representative and urge them to read the letter and oppose the bill.

Find your Senator’s phone number here

 

You can read the letter below.

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Dear Esteemed Members of Congress,

We write to you today as a diverse group of both law enforcement officers and representatives to express our deep concerns regarding immigration bill S. 744, the “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,” which is currently before the Senate Judiciary Committee. S. 744 will profoundly impact the security of the country, our nation’s communities, and the people we as law enforcement officers are sworn to protect.

Driven by mere speculation that S. 744 may be enacted by Congress, illegal border crossings have spiked dramatically. Thousands of unaccompanied children, runaways and families now attempt to illegally enter the United States in hope s of receiving legalization. This trend will surely continue after enactment as S. 744 provides no commitment of stronger border enforcement for at least five to ten years following the initial legalization phase. Thousands will be victimized or perish as they attempt the treacherous crossing into the United States in hopes of attaining legal status. Cut off dates established in S. 744 will mean little to those in other countries who are unfamiliar with the 867 page bill. Without a strategy of border security first, S. 744 will only draw more illegal immigrants into the United States resulting in unnecessary harm to many.

Border security is also critical to preventing criminal elements and national security threats from entering the United States. Perh aps at no time in our nation’s history is border security more important to maintaining public safety than it is now. Unfortunately, S. 744 provides no guarantee of increased border security. Instead, it relinquishes Congress’ authority to establish border security measures to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) which will then develop its own unilateral border security plan. DHS is then permitted to measure its own successes and failures after implementing that plan. Clearly recognizing the high probability that this approach will fail and DHS will not develop a successful border security plan, S. 744 establishes a commission to review security at the border five years after the plan has been implemented (if the Secretary decides such a commission is needed). But the powerless commission will have only the authority to make recommendations on how to achieve border security. Those recommendations may very well be ignored by DHS. It is important to note that S. 744 dissolves the commission 30 days after it makes its recommendations to the President, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and Congress. S. 744 also grants the Secretary the authority to unilaterally determine the amount of border fencing that will be constructed, which could result in litt le or no fencing being built. In summary, S. 744 appears to provide no tangible provisions for increased border security.

S. 744 also does not address current failures of interior enforcement that will render any legislation ineffective, regardless of it s provisions. Currently, ICE officers cannot arrest or remove most illegal immigrants they come in contact with, even if officers believe those individuals present a risk to public safety. To avoid offending special interests, ICE officers are also prohibited from making street arrests, and are also prohibited from arresting illegal immigrants who are public charges or who violate laws involving fraudulent documents. ICE officers are under orders to wait until immigration violators commit and are convicted of criminal offenses and placed in jail by state authorities before they can act in their capacity as Federal immigration officers and make an arrest. Even though illegal entry and visa overstay violations account for the majority of the 11 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States, DHS and ICE have directed ICE officers not to enforce the laws related to these offenses.

Congress can and must take decisive steps to limit the discretion of political appointees and empower ICE and CBP to perform their respective missions and enforce the laws enacted by Congress. Rather than limiting the power of those political appointees within DHS, S. 744 provides them with nearly unlimited discretion, which will serve only to further cripple the law enforcement missions of these agencies.

Further, S. 744 establishes a biographic (instead of biometric) exit system that has already proven easy to circumvent and not worthy of investment. S. 744 limits the exit system to air and sea ports and doe s not expand the program to include monitoring of the nation’s land borders. This will not provide adequate coverage and security to the nation’s ports of entry and will result in identifying only a fraction of the visa violators unlawfully present in the United States. Even if an effective biometric exit system is eventually established, the size of the ICE workforce is too small to effectively utilize it. With only 5,000 ICE immigration officers nationwide – a force smaller than many police departments – ICE lacks the resources to locate and apprehend visa violators identified by the new exit system, rendering the system useless. S. 744 does not provide for any guaranteed increase in the number of ICE immigration officers.

Prior to the completion of any new enforcement mechanisms, S. 744 creates a new legal status for illegal immigrants, known as Registered Provisional Immigrant status (RPI), which forgives previous Federal immigration violations. However, Section 2101 of S. 744 also explicitly opens th is legal status to those with long criminal records, gang affiliations, felony arrests, and those with multiple misdemeanor criminal convictions. Furthermore, S. 744 allows criminal aliens to continue to commit and be convicted of criminal offenses after r eceiving provisional legal status, as long as the individual’s convictions remain below the eligibility threshold.

For instance, the Secretary of DHS must waive misdemeanor criminal convictions for purposes of determining an illegal immigrant’s eli gibility for RPI status. In many states, misdemeanor crimes include serious offenses such as assault, assault of a law enforcement officer, vehicular homicide, possession of drug manufacturing equipment, unlawful placing or discharging of an explosive devi ce, DUI, and sex offenses.

Section 3701 of S. 744 states that illegal immigrants who are members of street gangs – most of which are heavily involved in criminal activity and violent crimes in the communities and areas we police – simply have to claim tha t they renounce their gang affiliation in order to obtain a waiver that would make them admissible to the U.S., and potentially eligible for legalization and eventual citizenship. We anticipate, as should Congress, that many gang members will falsely clai m to renounce their association with criminal street gangs to obtain legal status and continue engaging in unlawful conduct in the United States.

Section 2101 of S. 744 states that illegal immigrants who have committed document fraud, made false statement s to authorities, and have absconded from court – ordered removal hearings are all eligible to apply for legal status.

Section 2101 of S. 744 directs DHS to ignore convictions under state laws that mirror federal laws on crimes such as human smuggling, harb oring, trafficking, and gang crimes when approving applications for legalization.

This same section also gives the Secretary of Homeland Security virtually unlimited discretion to waive any manner of crimes that would otherwise make an individual ineligi ble for legal status –– for such expansive reasons as family unity, humanitarian purposes or what the Secretary believes is in the public interest. At least two of these standards appear undefined by S. 744 or current law, providing political appointees wi th broad authority to establish their own definitions of these terms and pardon criminal acts under almost any circumstance.

The bill provides that individuals who have overstayed visas are eligible for RPI and citizenship. As we have learned from the 9/11 Commission, more vigorous policing of visa violators is an essential component of national security. S. 744 provides legal status to an estimated 4.5 million visa overstays, including recent arrivals and document forgers. S. 744 lacks effective secur ity measures for screening existing and future visa violators.

The bill states that individuals who have previously been deported or otherwise removed from the country are ineligible to apply for legal status. However, the Secretary is given the “sole and unreviewable discretion” to waive that ineligibility for large classes of qualifying aliens.

Section 2101 of S. 744 prohibits detention and removal of any person claiming eligibility for legalization under S. 744 without requirement to provide proof of e ligibility or application.

While business groups, activists, and other special interests were closely involved in the drafting of S. 744, law enforcement personnel were excluded from those meetings. Immigration officers and state and local law enforcement working directly within the nation’s broken immigration system were prohibited from providing input. As a result, the legislation before us may have many satisfactory components for powerful lobbying groups and other special interests, but on the subjects of public safety, border security, and interior enforcement, this legislation fails. It is a dramatic step in the wrong direction.

The degree to which this legislation tolerates both past and future criminal activities ensures legalization and a path to citizenship for many criminal aliens and gang members currently residing in the United States. Additionally, S.744 fails to provide for necessary cooperation between agencies and ignores many of the current problems that are inimical to the proper enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws.

For example, ICE officers are currently directed by DHS to allow adult inmates in jails to lie about their “DREAMer” status in order to avoid immigration arrest. As a result, inmates are permitted to simply w alk out of jails without being required to provide proof of eligibility for “DREAMer” status and without any investigation by ICE. ICE officers report overhearing inmates coaching one another on how to lie to ICE officers about having “DREAMer” status to avoid arrest, yet ICE officers are still powerless to arrest them. These revelations should alarm every member of Congress, and indeed, every American. If this legislation were enacted tomorrow, ICE officers would continue to be powerless to effectively enforce our nation’s laws and provide for public safety as S. 744 does nothing to end these dangerous agency and department level directives. DHS will most certainly continue to issue these types of directives which will continue to deteriorate the ability of ICE to provide for public safety and national security.

We therefore conclude that this legislation fails to meet the needs of the law enforcement community and would, in fact, be a significant barrier to the creation of a safe and lawful system of i mmigration.

We thank you for hearing our concerns and would be eager to answer any questions you may have.

Sincerely,

Chris Crane, President National ICE Council

Zack Taylor, Chairman National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBO)

Sheriff Sam Page Rockingham County NC/Vice Co – Chair National Sheriffs Association Border Security and Immigrations Committee

Sheriff David M. Carpenter Lincoln County, NC

Sheriff Andy Stokes Davie County, NC

Sheriff Rick Burris Stanly County, NC

Sheriff Eddie Cathey Union County, NC

Sheriff Prentis Benston Bladen County, NC

Sheriff Darryl Liverman Tyrrell County, NC

Sheriff Chuck Jenkins Frederick County, Maryland

Sheriff Vic Davis Clay County, NC

Sheriff James Ross Washington County, NC

Sheriff Todd Garrison Dona Ana County, New Mexico/Chairman Southwest Border Sheriffs Coalition

Sheriff Paul Babeu Pinal County, Arizona

Sheriff Terry Johnson Alamance County, NC

Sheriff Matt Murray Curry County, NC

Sheriff Todd Martin Monroe County, PA

Sheriff Thomas Hodgson Bristol County, Massachusetts

Monica L. Shank, Executive Secretary Guadalupe County Sheriff’s Office, NM

Sheriff Carolyn B. Welsh Chester County, PA

Sheriff Curtis A. Cochran Swain County, NC

Sheriff Clinton “C.J.” Walters Bradford County, PA

Sheriff Dan Gibbs Martin County, NC

Sheriff Jeffrey C. Krieg Elk County, PA

Sheriff Larry Rollins Harnett Co. N.C.

Sheriff Eric Foy Venango County, PA

Sheriff Tracy L. Carter Lee County, NC

Sheriff Kenneth L. Klakamp Warren County, Pennsylvania

Sheriff Dewey Jones Person County, NC

Sheriff Oscar O. Cowen, Jr. Starke County, IN

Sheriff Ronald B. Bruce Hinsdale County, Colorado

Richard Valdemar, Sgt. LASD (Ret.) , Gang Expert


 

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It’s Up to You!

May 29, 2013 in 4/15, Abuse of Power, Accountability, America's Collapse, America's Heritage, Amnesty, Anarchy, Benghazi Coverup, Benghazi Gate, Constitution, dictator, DICTATORSHIP, Eric Holder, Founding Principles, Freedom, GOP in Retreat, Hope and Change, Illegal Aliens, Immigration, Intimidation, Justice, Liars, Liberty, Liberty in Jeopardy, Mitch McConnell, Political Class, Political Courage, Political Deception, President Obama, Speaker John Boehner, US Sovereignty, Who Is Barack Hussein Obama? by Admin1

eric_holder_obama He has brought us fast and furious, Obamacare with all its corrupt dealings, the Libya invasion without Congressional approval, Benghazi, the IRS, the AP, and now we find that the EPA leaked confidential Farmer and Rancher information to far left environmental Groups.

He has divided Americans by use of divisive “Class Warfare “rhetoric in an effort to weaken or destroy our historic Institutions. His oratory pits rich against poor, young against old, and races against each other. He disses Personal Responsibility in favor of Government Control. .

A Federal court ruled that his Recess Appointments are ILLEGAL, yet he has not removed the appointees nor has the Attorney General or Congress moved to enforce the Court Order.

The armed Radical Black Panthers blocked a doorway to a polling location to intimidate voters in Philadelphia during the 2008 Presidential Election, and were found guilty by a federal judge. Our Attorney General, Eric Holder, neither arrested them nor took them into custody as was required by the Federal Court. It’s just another case of protecting your base by selective enforcement of Federal Law. A belief that both Obama and Holder share.

We now have an Attorney General, charged with being the Chief Law Enforcer Officer in the Federal Government, that has lied to Congressional Committees on two separate occasions. Once over “Fast and Furious”, wherein he had to return to the Committee and retract his statement, and now another lie over his personally approving a subpoena for Fox News telephone records after “Judge Shopping” to get a Federal District Judge to agree to the flagrantly unconstitutional order.

Yes, we have change! Barack Hussein Obama and his handpicked Consigliore Erick Holder have moved our country from a Republic into a virtual Communist Dictatorship. We have citizens afraid of their government institutions, witnesses told to hush up or loose their pensions or worse. Whistle blowers that are attacked, not provided with counsel and threatened.

We have also learned during this Administration that our Champions of Liberty, Freedom and the Constitution as members of the loyal opposition have been attacked and denigrated not only from without but also from within. Champions like Lt. Col. Allen West, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and Sen. Rand Paul.

We have come to understand that the Political Class on both sides of the aisle are more concerned with their Party and reelection than they are with restoring our Constitution and American exceptionalism. Consequently, we cannot rely on either the Republican Leadership in the Senate headed by Mitch McConnell, nor the Leadership in the House headed by John Boehner, to bring our country back to its Founding Constitutional legal principles.

It is up to us, ‘We the People”, you and me to reign in these abuses of power on both sides of the aisle lest we find ourselves and future generations imprisoned by dictatorial regimes.

 

Thousands and Thousands of Associated Press Phone Calls Monitored by DO

The Associated Press scandal just keeps getting worse, and we haven’t even started yet. AP CEO Gary Pruitt informed staffers Wednesday that the Department of Justice monitored, not one, not twenty, but “thousands and thousands” of phone calls made by reporters and editors.

Associated Press president and chief executive Gary Pruitt told staff at a Wednesday town hall meeting that the phone records obtained by the government included “thousands and thousands” of calls in and out of the news organization, according to a staffer who attended.

Pruitt said Wednesday that the Obama administration acted as “judge, jury and executioner” in secretly obtaining the news organization’s records, a criticism he also leveled in a recent appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

During the town hall, Pruitt reiterated that the AP did not report on a CIA-thwarted terrorist plot in May 2012 out of national security concerns until sources indicated the Obama administration was going to announce it publicly.

Meanwhile, calls for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign are getting louder….from liberals. Over to you, Jonathan Turley:

The attorney general has done little in his tenure to protect civil liberties or the free press. Rather, Holder has supervised a comprehensive erosion of privacy rights, press freedom and due process. This ignoble legacy was made possible by Democrats who would look at their shoes whenever the Obama administration was accused of constitutional abuses.

On Thursday, Obama responded to the outcry over the AP and Fox scandals by calling for an investigation by … you guessed it … Eric Holder. He ordered Holder to meet with news media representatives to hear their “concerns” and report back to him. He sent his old sin eater for a confab with the very targets of the abusive surveillance. Such an inquiry offers no reason to trust its conclusions.

The feeble response was the ultimate proof that these are Obama’s sins despite his effort to feign ignorance. It did not matter that Holder is the sin eater who has lost his stomach or that such mortal sins are not so easily digested. Indeed, these sins should be fatal for any attorney general.

You can bet this isn’t the end of this. We still don’t have the answer to the question: How many reporters from how many media outlets did DOJ monitor?

Drip drip.

See more at: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/05/29/thousands-and-thousands-of-associated-press-phone-calls-monitored-by-doj-n1608748


 

 

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Lois Lerner’s Arrogance Results in the Waiving of Her 5th Amendment Right Against Self-Incrimination

May 22, 2013 in "Bill of Rights", 1st Amendment, Abuse of Power, Constitution, Freedom, Liberty in Jeopardy, Political Deception, President Obama, Transparency by Admin1

Lois-Lerner

POLITICS

CONFUSION ERUPTS IN IRS HEARING AFTER LOIS LERNER TRIES TO PLEAD THE 5TH — WATCH IT ALL UNFOLD

The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the political targeting scandal invoked her constitutional right not to answer lawmakers’ questions on Wednesday, but defiantly asserted that she has done nothing wrong — prompting confusion about how exactly she was using her right not to incriminate herself.

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) told Politico that Lois Lerner, who leads the IRS office that determines which organizations receive tax-exempt status, will be brought before his panel again.

Lerner was the first to publicly disclose earlier this month that the IRS gave extra scrutiny to conservative groups.

“I have not done anything wrong, I have not broken any laws, I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations and I have not provided false information to this or any other congressional committee,” Lerner told House Oversight and Government Reform Committee members. “While I would very much like to answer the committee’s questions today, I have been advised by my counsel to assert my constitutional right not to testify or answer questions related to the subject manner of this hearing.”

Lerner added that by asserting her right not to testify, “I know that some people will assume I have done something wrong. I have not. One of the basic functions of the Fifth Amendment is to protect innocent individuals, and that is the protection I am invoking today.”

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Issa noted during the hearing that because Lerner had asserted her innocence in her opening statement, “I believe you have not asserted your rights but have effectively waived your rights” and took her refusal to answer as a refusal to testify.

An incensed Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) spoke up that Lerner should testify, agreeing that she already waived her constitutional privilege.

“You don’t get to tell your side of the story and not be subjected to cross-examination. That’s not the way it works. She waived her right to Fifth Amendment privilege by issuing an opening statement, she ought to stand here and answer our questions,” Gowdy said, earning applause from the audience.

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Read more at:   http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/22/i-have-not-done-anything-wrong-irs-official-invokes-5th-amendment-right/comment-page-2/

A bushel of Pinocchios for IRS’s Lois Lerner

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(Andrew Harrer/BLOOMBERG)

In the days since the Internal Revenue Service first disclosed that it had targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, new information has emerged from both the Treasury inspector general’s report and congressional testimony Friday that calls into question key statements made by Lois G. Lerner, the IRS’s director of the exempt organizations division.

The clumsy way the IRS disclosed the issue, as well as Lerner’s press briefing by phone, were seen at the time as a public relations disaster. But even so, it is worth reviewing three key statements made by Lerner and comparing them to the facts that have since emerged.

 

 

“But between 2010 and 2012, we started seeing a very big uptick in the number of 501(c)(4) applications we were receiving, and many of these organizations applying more than doubled, about 1500 in 2010 and over 3400 in 2012.”

Lerner made this comment while issuing a seemingly impromptu apology at an American Bar Association panel. (It was later learned that this was a planted question — more on that below.) In her telling, the tax-exempt branch was simply overwhelmed by applications, and so unfortunate shortcuts were taken.

But this claim of “more than doubled” appears to be a red herring. The targeting of groups began in early 2010, after the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC was announced on Jan. 21. The ruling led to increased interest in a tax-exempt status known as 501(c)(4). Most charities apply under 501(c)(3), but under 501(c)(4), nonprofit groups that engage in “social welfare” can also perform a limited amount of election activity.

At first glance, the inspector general’s report appears to show that the number of 501(c)(4) applications actually went down that year, from 1,751 in 2009 to 1,735.

But it turns out that these are federal fiscal-year figures, meaning “2010” is actually Oct. 1, 2009 to Sept. 30, 2010, so the “2010” year includes more than three months before the Supreme Court decision was announced.

Astonishingly, despite Lerner’s public claim, an IRS spokeswoman was not able to provide the actual calendar year numbers. By allocating one-quarter of the fiscal year numbers to the prior year, we can get a very rough sense of the increase on a calendar-year basis. (Figures are rounded to avoid false precision; 2012 is not possible to calculate.)

2009: 1745

2010: 1865

2011: 2540

In other words, while there was an increase in 2010, it was relatively small. The real jump did not come until 2011, long after the targeting of conservative groups had been implemented. Also, it appears Lerner significantly understated the number of applications in 2010 (“1500”) in order to make her claim of “more than doubled.”

 

 

“I think you guys were reading the paper as much as I was. So it was pretty much we started seeing information in the press that raised questions for us, and we went back and took a look.”

Here, Lerner suggests that she found out about this issue only when news reports appeared in February and March 2012 about tea party groups complaining that they were being targeted. But the IG timelineshows this claim to be false.

According the IG, Lerner had a briefing on the issue on June 29, 2011, in which she was told about the BOLO (“Be On the Look Out”) criteria that included words such as “tea party” or “patriots.” The report says she raised concerns about the wording and “instructed that the criteria be immediately revised.” She continued to be heavily involved in the issue in the months preceding the new reports, according to the timeline.

 

 

“I don’t believe anyone ever asked me that question before.”

This was Lerner’s excuse during the media call for why she had not publicly addressed the issue before.

But in congressional testimony Friday, outgoing acting director Steven T. Miller said he had talked with Lerner about arranging to make a statement at a May 10 conference sponsored by the American Bar Association, knowing that the IG report would soon be released.

Lerner then contacted a friend, Celia Roady, a tax attorney with the Washington firm Morgan Lewis, to get her to ask a question about the targeting, according to a statement by Roady on Friday. (Roady hadpreviously denied this was a planted question when asked directly by participants at the meeting.)

So Lerner was dissembling when she suggested that a simple well-aimed question prompted the disclosure.

In fact, just two days before the ABA conference, Lerner appeared before Congress and was asked by Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) about the status of investigations into 501(c)(4) groups. She provided a bland answer about a questionnaire on the IRS Web site, failing to take the opportunity to disclose the results of the probe. (The clip is embedded below, with the question coming at 5:09.) Small wonder that Crowley is now calling for her to resign, saying that Lerner lied to him.

http://youtu.be/8kZABHzFa-4We gave the IRS the weekend to provide a response. A spokeswoman said the agency was not able to offer an explanation for Lerner’s remarks in time for our deadline

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In some ways, this is just scratching the surface of Lerner’s misstatements and weasely wording when the revelations about the IRS’s activities first came to light on May 10. But, taken together, it’s certainly enough to earn her four Pinocchios.

 

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Could our Miltary Aircraft/units made it to Benghazi in time to save lives?

May 14, 2013 in 4/15, Abuse of Power, Accountability, Benghazi Coverup, Benghazi Gate, Justice, Political Deception, President Obama by Admin1

 

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Unnamed Defense Department officials have stated that no units could have responded in time and  that there were no Refueling Tankers  available.

However, the unnamed and unknown Defense Department officials failed to mention that we have a U.S. Navy installation at NATO Base Sigonella Sicily Italy  which can refuel any type of military aircraft and is less than two hours away from Benghazi.  In March of 2011, an AP story by Nicole Winfield reported the following regarding Sigonella’s  role against the Gadhafi regime:

“Details about possible military action against Gadhafi were being discussed by 22 world leaders gathered at an emergency summit in Paris, as Libyan forces attacked rebel-held Benghazi, the heart of the uprising, with troops, tanks and warplanes.

Sigonella’s size and close proximity to Libya makes it a key staging point for any possible international strikes, but other bases were being readied as well, including the U.S. air base at Aviano in northern Italy.

Witnesses reported Saturday that five new American F-18s, two C-17s and a C-130 cargo plane landed Saturday at the base, which is home to the 31st Fighter Wing.”

Our Air Force  31st Fighter wing is based in Aviano Italy and they have F16 fighter aircraft squadrons that are combat ready 24/7 . The F16  can attain  speeds of Mach  0.6, 6 miles per minute to  Mach 1.6 or 1,217 miles/hour and a maximum range of 2, 762 miles with a full tank . Aviano is 609 miles from Sigonella and Sigonella is 477 miles from Benghazi.  Aviano based Fighter aircraft could have easily been in Benghazi airspace  in a couple of hours and after refueling in Sigonella, had enough fuel to  buzz the compound several times.

According to Fox News, the Annex team also had Ground Laser Designators, or GLD. A Laser Designator is a laser light source which is used to designate a target and could have been used to ‘paint” the terrorist targets for our F16s.

Col. David Hunt, a Fox News military analyst, said the military could have had jets in the air within 20 minutes and forces on the ground within two hours.

“The issue is always political with the White House, but the secretary of defense gives the order, has to be approved by the White House, they wouldn’t pull the trigger, and it’s disgraceful,” Hunt said. “We’ve got guys dead.”

 

Special Ops halted from responding to Benghazi attacks, U.S. diplomat says

By Ernesto Londoño,May 06, 2013

As the weakly protected U.S. diplomatic compound in eastern Libya came under attack the night of Sept. 11, 2012, the deputy head of the embassy in Tripoli 600 miles away sought in vain to get the Pentagon to scramble fighter jets over Benghazi in a show of force that he said might have averted a second attack on a nearby CIA complex.

Hours later, according to excerpts of the account by the U.S. diplomat, Gregory Hicks, American officials in the Libyan capital sought permission to deploy four U.S. Special Operations troops to Benghazi aboard a Libyan military aircraft early the next morning. The troops were told to stand down.

Defense Department officials have said they had no units that could have responded in time to counter the attack in Benghazi, but Republicans on Capitol Hill have questioned whether the Obama administration could have saved lives with a nimbler, more assertive response. They say that the reluctance to send the Special Operations troops may have, at the very least, deprived wounded Americans in Benghazi of first aid.

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Whistle Blower Testimony on Benghazi

May 9, 2013 in Abuse of Power, Accountability, Benghazi Coverup, Benghazi Gate, Foreign Policy, Hilary Clinton, Justice, Political Deception, President Obama, radical islam, Susan Rice, Transparency by Admin1

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Whistleblower’s Emotional Testimony on Benghazi: More Could Have Been Done

 Wednesday, 08 May 2013 06:31 PM
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A former U.S. diplomat in Libya told lawmakers on Wednesday more could have been done to prevent last year’s deadly assault on the U.S. mission in Benghazi in which the U.S. ambassador was killed.In a congressional hearing marked by emotional testimony and angry charges of political partisanship, Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of mission in Libya at the time of last year’s attack, became the first U.S. official on the ground in Libya during the attacks to testify publicly.He detailed a series of frantic phone calls to Washington and between Tripoli and Benghazi, including one from U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens that was cut off after Stevens said, “Greg, we’re under attack.”Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack by suspected Islamist militants linked to al Qaeda on a lightly defended U.S. diplomatic mission and a more fortified CIA compound in Benghazi.Hicks gave an emotional account during the hearing of the House of Representatives Oversight Committee, at times choking up and stopping to collect himself and sip water as he described the telephone call from Stevens with the news that the U.S. diplomats were under attack.Learning of Stevens’ death “was the saddest phone call I’ve ever had in my life,” Hicks said.Hicks said a special forces team was not permitted to travel to Benghazi, although U.S. authorities had no idea how long the attacks would go on. If a U.S. aircraft had been sent to fly over the eastern Libyan city when the assault on the diplomatic facilities began, he said, it might have deterred the assailants.The Benghazi incident was a headache for President Barack Obama as he campaigned for re-election. Republicans accused him of being weak on foreign affairs.Opponents have continued to assail the Democratic president over security lapses in Benghazi as well as the administration’s early, conflicting accounts of what happened there.

But after months of criticism, there is little sign that the Benghazi issue is hitting Obama’s poll numbers or interfering with policy objectives like winning immigration reform or working out how to react to the Syrian civil war.

 

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Democrats charged Republicans during the hearing – the latest of a series – with politicizing the attacks and making false accusations about members of the Obama administration.

“What we have seen over the past two weeks is a full- scale media campaign that is not designed to investigate what happened in a responsible and bipartisan way, but rather to launch … unfounded accusations to smear public officials,” said U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the committee.

Republicans focused their criticism on security, early accounts of the report and the conduct of the investigation, such as witness Eric Nordstrom not being questioned by the board probing Benghazi although he had first-hand knowledge of the attacks.

“The witnesses before us are actual experts on what really happened before, during and after the Benghazi attacks,” said U.S. Representative Darrell Issa, chairman of the Oversight Panel, who referred to Hicks, Thompson and Nordstrom as “whistleblowers.”

“These witnesses deserve to be heard on the Benghazi attacks, the flaws in the accountability review board’s methodology, process and conclusion,” he said.

Democratic members of Congress closely questioned Hicks and the other two witnesses: Mark Thompson, the acting deputy assistant secretary for counterrorism at the State Department; and Nordstrom, a regional security officer in Libya.

Some noted, for example, that Hicks’ assertion that a U.S. military plane could have been sent from Italy to help contradicted sworn testimony by U.S. military commanders, including General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

“I have seen nothing to make me question the truthfulness of our nation’s military commanders,” Cummings said.

Benghazi became the topic of the day in Washington, featuring in media briefings at the State Department, Pentagon and White House as Obama administration officials tried to get out ahead of Republican criticism.

“It is a simple fact that from first hours of Benghazi attack there have been attempts by Republicans to politicize it,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said.

A State Department official said the department has participated in eight hearings, more than 20 inter-agency briefings and responded to more than 100 letters and questions since Sept. 11.

Republicans deny that they are motivated by a desire to discredit a Democratic White House or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, considered a favorite to be the party’s presidential nominee in 2016.

An official inquiry into the incident released in December concluded that “leadership and management failures” in two State Department bureaus led to a security posture “inadequate for Benghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took place.”

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KUHNER: Blowing a whistle on Benghazi

May 3, 2013 in Abuse of Power, Al Qaeda, Anarchy, Benghazi Coverup, Benghazi Gate, Hillary Clinton, Impeachment, Intimidation, National Security, Obamanation, President Obama, Socialism, The Stakes for the 2014 Election, US Foreign Policy by Admin1

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In  a February 10th  article  Why Did Barack Hussein Obama Condemn 4-Americans to Die in Benghazi?,

 we questioned:

“Why is Congress and the American Public being stonewalled by this Administration? There was the Fast and Furious cover-up and now the Benghazi-Gate cover-up! Why are the Democrats and the media joining forces and circling the wagons? Why did Barrack Hussein Obama condemn 4-Americans to death? What was so important to hide that Americans had to die? Was it the big lie that we liberated Libya and it was now  free  of  al-Qaeda? Was it that Libya was a staging point for weapons to Syrian Rebels? Or was it that the weapons that we supplied to Libya were making their way to al-Qaida in Mali and other regions?”

Now, Jeff Kuhner is reporting that the reason that the Benghazi Whistle-blowers are being isolated and threatened are among other travesties, the fact that they can document the that:

 “ The Obama administration has been secretly arming the Islamic rebels in the vicious Syrian civil war, according to numerous news organizations. Mr. Paul has cited multiple media reports documenting the CIA smuggling operation in Benghazi. Stevens was critical of the operation. He also feared for his life. The truth about Benghazi could expose the CIA’s clandestine involvement. If that is the case, the Obama administration would be implicated not only in something nefarious, but a lawless and criminal enterprise. Mr. Obama would be no better than a gunrunner, an international arms smuggler. Even his leftist media hacks would have to abandon him.”

KUHNER: Blowing a whistle on Benghazi

There’s no hiding four murders

Benghazi may turn out to be President Obama’s Watergate. The scandal is a growing cancer on the administration, threatening its very existence. The more information comes out, the more damning it is. This is why Democrats — and their media allies — are desperately trying to sweep the truth under the rug. Mr. Obama’s political survival is at stake.

High-profile lawyers Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing are in touch with State Department whistleblowers who were on the ground in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012, when our diplomatic mission was attacked by jihadists. Mr. diGenova says they can no longer remain silent. The whistleblowers want to testify before a House congressional committee. There is only one problem. According to Mr. diGenova and Ms. Toensing, the whistleblowers are being prevented — and intimidated — from speaking out by the Obama administration. Vindictive State Department officials are denying their request for legal representation. Since the whistleblowers’ potential testimony relates to classified information, they refuse to go forward in public without effective legal representation. The possible personal and professional consequences are immense.

If — and I stress if — they testify, then the Obama presidency is in mortal jeopardy. Mr. diGenova stresses that the whistleblowers possess information that will expose the administration’s lies and cover-up. Republicans on Capitol Hill should pursue this scandal to the end.

Benghazi should have been prevented. During the summer of 2012, al Qaeda thugs were roaming the streets of the city. The Red Cross and the British diplomatic mission pulled out. Our consulate had been physically attacked several times. This is why U.S. officials there repeatedly asked the State Department for bolstered security. It was denied.

Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testified under oath at a House hearing in January that she was unaware of any requests for extra security. “I have made it very clear that the security cables did not come to my attention,” she said. That is false. According to a recent congressional report, Mrs. Clinton knew about the cables. In fact, she not only denied the extra protection, she explicitly ordered that consulate security be cut back. The report cites an April 19, 2012, cable bearing Mrs. Clinton’s signature that acknowledges the demand for more security assistance but insists that reductions in security assets should continue.

Moreover, the report also found that State Department officials deliberately manipulated White House talking points to remove any references of culpability by Foggy Bottom for the negligence in security. The connections to terrorism and al Qaeda were purged. The White House wanted to shield Mr. Obama from any political damage in the midst of an election campaign. The administration covered up the obvious: Far from being smashed, al Qaeda had mounted a successful jihadist attack on U.S. soil, killing four Americans — including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. This is why Mr. Obama’s surrogates concocted the patently false narrative of a flash mob storming the consulate in protest of an anti-Muslim video. Their goal was to deceive the American public.

The media is also deliberately ignoring another aspect of Benghazigate. The administration refused to send in military reinforcements as Islamist thugs were storming the consulate. AC-130 gunships and U.S. special forces were at a military base only several hours away. They could have rescued our besieged personnel from the compound. Instead, they were ordered to do nothing, leaving Stevens and his colleagues twisting in the wind. The attack continued for more than nine hours. Yet Mr. Obama refused to lift a finger to save endangered American lives.

Why is the administration so determined to stonewall a serious investigation into Benghazi? The real answer may lie beyond cynical politics. Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, has repeatedly asked about the CIA’s alleged illicit role in smuggling weapons from our Benghazi compound to Turkey and eventually into Syria. The Obama administration has been secretly arming the Islamic rebels in the vicious Syrian civil war, according to numerous news organizations. Mr. Paul has cited multiple media reports documenting the CIA smuggling operation in Benghazi. Stevens was critical of the operation. He also feared for his life. The truth about Benghazi could expose the CIA’s clandestine involvement. If that is the case, the Obama administration would be implicated not only in something nefarious, but a lawless and criminal enterprise. Mr. Obama would be no better than a gunrunner, an international arms smuggler. Even his leftist media hacks would have to abandon him.

This is why Republicans must demand Watergate-style hearings on Benghazi. The American people have a right to know whether the president is a criminal. Benghazigate is much worse than Watergate. At its core, Watergate was about the cover-up of a third-rate burglary. For this crime, President Nixon was forced to resign. Benghazigate is about the cover-up of the killing of four Americans. The families ofStevens, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods and Sean Smith deserve to know the truth. It’s time we gave it to them. Let the whistleblowers speak.

Jeffrey T. Kuhner is a radio commentator on WRKO AM-680 in Boston.

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Probation Department Indictment Confirms That MA Has Institutionalized Corruption

April 26, 2013 in Abuse of Power, Boston Marathon Bombing, Deval Patrick, EBT Cards, Food Stamp, Political Deception, Political Machine, Taxachusetts, Taxiation with Representation, Terrorism, Welfare Fraud by Admin1

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MA Justice Is Blind

“But despite months of speculation that prosecutors would target politicians, the legislators themselves were not charged in the indictment.”                                                                                                                                                                    

A Boston Globe Spotlight Team analysis showed that at least 250 MA Probation Department employees have personal or political connections that not only facilitated their   job appointments, but also their career advancements.

Among the prominent Democrat Legislative leaders that sought patronage jobs for their minions are Senate President Therese Murray and Speaker Robert DeLeo.

“Federal prosecutors investigating the scandal-plagued Probation Department are focusing on Democratic legislators who may have benefited from the agency’s allegedly rigged hiring system, including House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo, one of the most influential politicians in helping people get jobs under former commissioner John J. O’Brien.”

The Probation Department’s Patronage path and its agencies internal bribery had been an “Open Secret” for years. It’s much like the quid pro quo  for judgeships in the Commonwealth. It is said that in order to receive a judicial appointment you have to “grease” the machine.

So there you have it. Rampant corruption at every level of our state government and only the Probation chief and 2-aides are indicted.  All of our Senators and Legislators have been given a pass to continue the corruption in other departments.  And then there is the case of our “Dear Leader2″, Deville Patrick, who appointed state Senator Marian Walsh to a $175,000 job which had gone unfilled for years.  The appointment was foiled by  Benson T. Caswell, executive director of the Massachusetts Health and Educational Finance Authority, which was merged in 2010 with MassDevelopment. Caswell was fired for daring to interfere with  Deval Patrick’s patronage bonanza for Senator Walsh. Caswell appealed and he received a $835,000 Settlement plus $300,000 in legal fees.

That money could have been better spent on our  crumbling highway system, which is due to an altogether different corruption and patronage scenario.

But we keep electing these crooked legislators  who, to maintain their “base”,  allow programs initially meant to aid working families in times of economic or medical hardship, to degenerate into EBT and Welfare Fraud of monumental proportions.

Illegal Aliens, including members of the infamous Tsarnev families were seen as additional  “base” benefactors that stood to  oil our MA Political Machine. So what, that they were not legal immigrants. So what that they plotted to do us harm. So what that they likely purchased the fireworks in NH to make the bombs with Welfare money. But you see,what’s important here is that

“Several posts on what several news organizations have confirmed as the Twitter profile of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev indicate that that the 19-year-old Chechnyan immigrant was a supporter of Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election.”

 

4/25/2013

17 bribery counts for ex-head of probation O’Brien

By Andrea Estes and Scott Allen

|  GLOBE STAFF  APRIL 25, 2013

Former Massachusetts Probation Department head John J. O’Brien in Suffolk Superior Court on April 5.

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Former Massachusetts Probation Department head John J. O’Brien in Suffolk Superior Court on April 5.

A new federal indictment charges embattled former probation commissioner John J. O’Brien with 17 counts of bribing state legislators by giving jobs to their supporters, friends, and relatives, crimes that carry up to 10 years in prison for each count.

The indictment, handed up Wednesday, alleged that O’Brien bribed Senate President Therese Murray at least three times by giving jobs to people she recommended. O’Brien allegedly bribed House Speaker Robert A DeLeo at least 10 times, according to the indictment, in part to help him as he began his successful campaign to become House speaker in 2009.

But despite months of speculation that prosecutors would target politicians, the legislators themselves were not charged in the indictment.

O’Brien and two top deputies, the indictment said, did “conspire, confederate, and agree to give jobs and salaries” to candidates promoted by state legislators “in order to influ­ence those members of the Legislature” to boost the Probation Department’s budget and achieve other political goals.

O’Brien, who resigned in 2010 amid a patronage scandal that engulfed the agency, ­already faces federal racketeering charges along with the two top deputies, Elizabeth V. ­Tavares and William H. Burke III, in allegedly running a ­phony hiring system that gave jobs to people with political connections. However, he was recently acquitted of state bribery charges.

Attorneys for O’Brien did not return a phone call seeking comment.

Senate President Murray, a Plymouth Democrat, declined to comment, but DeLeo issued a statement insisting that he has done nothing wrong.

“It is clear that I am not a party to the indictment, but I want to state emphatically: I only recommended job applicants who were qualified,” said DeLeo, a Winthrop Democrat. “I never gave or received any benefits from those recommendations, and I never traded jobs for votes.”

In addition to Murray and DeLeo, who are mentioned in the indictment only by title, there are at least 21 legislators who allegedly received bribes from O’Brien in the form of probation jobs, the indictment says. Lieutenant Governor ­Timothy P. Murray also sponsored a successful job applicant, the indictment says.

The 56-page indictment expands the racketeering charges originally brought against O’Brien, Tavares, and Burke in March of last year. The original charges accused the three of overseeing a hiring system that conducted thousands of sham job interviews to conceal the fact that the positions were reserved for friends, relatives, and supporters of politicians and court officials whether they were qualified or not.

The grand jury investigating the probation scandal has heard witnesses for more than two years after a Boston Globe Spotlight report on the rampant favoritism. It was unclear Wednesday whether the new charges are the final charges to be brought in the case.

The new indictment ­describes many additional ­instances of bribes in the form of jobs that O’Brien allegedly gave to candidates recommended by lawmakers, but the hirings took place so long ago they could not be charged separately.

Prosecutors detail how O’Brien gave state lawmakers the opportunity to place their supporters and friends in the Probation Department, especially jobs at the agency’s electronic monitoring center in Clinton, once part of the largest state program to track people with electronic ankle bracelets in the nation.

When the center was opened in 2007 to expand the state’s monitoring of sex offenders, O’Brien was allowed to hire temporary employees and circumvent requirements that the jobs be posted and made available to the public.

During 2007 and 2008, he hired 20 electronic monitoring workers by soliciting names of candidates from lawmakers, includ­ing DeLeo, who was then chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

DeLeo and his staff contacted approximately 10 members of the House, who provided names, the indictment said. These individuals were hired “without any vetting process and without any interview,” the indictment said.

O’Brien doled out the jobs, prosecutors allege, in part “to assist the chairman in an ­upcoming contest for the post of speaker of the House of ­Representatives.”

Lawyers for O’Brien’s co­defendants downplayed the significance of the new accusations, saying prosecutors are ­repackaging the same charges.

“It’s patronage hiring, and they’re calling it a different name,” said John Amabile, Burke’s lawyer. “It doesn’t change the landscape, and it doesn’t change our position. My client, a 72-year old retired grandfather who worked as a probation officer for 37 years, categorically denies that he committed any criminal ­offense.”

Brad Bailey, Tavares’s lawyer, said the bribery charges, like the racketeering charges, are wholly inappropriate, noting that Tavares had a distinguished career. “My client proclaimed her innocence loudly when she was indicted last spring and will do so even louder when she is arraigned on these new charges,” he said.

The three defendants will face all of the charges in a single trial; no date has been set.

Again and again, the new indict­ment detailed how well-connected candidates used their connections and ended up being hired. In one instance, Murray’s office opened a case file for a candidate referred to as “PL,” a reference to a politically connected job candidate named Patrick Lawton.

About two weeks later, his father, Judge Mark Lawton, sent an e-mail to the Office of the Senate President stating, “I know that Jack O’Brien takes very seriously calls from your office where there is a strong interest on the part of the Senate president.”

After a call to probation from one of Murray’s aides, the indictment said, Lawton was hired as a probation officer in Plymouth County even though he was ranked ninth out of 10 candidates for the position.

The indictments also ­described how a state senator intervened with probation to get a job for his girlfriend as probation officer at the Bristol County Probate and Family Court.

The indictments also described how Speaker DeLeo’s godson, Brian Mirasolo, rose from the ranks of assistant court services coordinator in 2004 to acting chief probation officer in 2009, when he became the state’s youngest chief probation officer.

According to the indictment, DeLeo wrote at least one letter in support of Mirasolo as he rose through the ranks starting in 2004, a period in which DeLeo was the chief budget-writing official in the House. In 2007, the indictment said, O’Brien contacted Mirasolo and offered him the job of acting probation officer in charge in Suffolk County “without application or interview.”

In spring 2009, O’Brien promoted Mirasolo to acting chief probation officer, an $87,000-a-year job he continues to hold.

Federal prosecutors launched their investigation in November 2010 after release of a scathing report by independent counsel Paul F. Ware Jr., who had been appointed by the state Supreme Judicial Court in response to articles by the Globe Spotlight Team about ­patronage at the agency.

Andrea Estes can be reached at estes@globe.com. Scott Allen can be reached at allen@­globe.com.

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Beck Breaks Exclusive Information on Saudi National Once Considered a Person of Interest in Boston Bombings

April 22, 2013 in 4/15, Abuse of Power, America's Collapse, Anarchy, Benghazi Coverup, Benghazi Gate, Boston Marathon Bombing Cover-Up, Terrorism, The Grand Deception by Admin1

Beck Breaks Exclusive Information on Saudi National Once Considered a Person of Interest in Boston Bombings

Apr. 22, 2013 10:44am
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Background points:
  • A Saudi national originally identified as a “person of interest” in the Boston Marathon bombing was set to be deported under section 212 3B — “Security and related grounds” — “Terrorist activities” after the bombing
  • As the story gained traction, TheBlaze’s Chief Content Officer Joel Cheatwood received word that the government may not deport the Saudi national, originally identified as Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi
  • Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refused to answer questions on the subject when confronted by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) on Capitol Hill.
  • An ICE official said a separate Saudi national is in custody, but is “in no way” connected to the bombings.
  • A congressional source, however, says that the file on Alharbi was created, that he was “linked” in some way to the Boston bombings (though it is unclear how), and that documents showing all this have been sent to Congress.
  • Committee on Homeland Security requests a classified briefing with Napolitano
  • TheBlaze sources and Fox News’ Todd Starnes report that Alharbi was allegedly flagged on a terrorist watch list
  • New information provided to TheBlaze reveals Alharbi’s file was altered early Wednesday evening to disassociate him from the initial charges
  • Sources say the Saudi’s student visa specifically allows him to go to school in Findlay, Ohio, though he appears to have an apartment in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Sources tell us this will most likely now be kicked from the DHS to the DOJ and labeled an ongoing investigation that can no longer be discussed.

Monday morning Glenn Beck laid out what he knows about the Saudi connection to the Boston marathon bombings.  It is a story that the mainstream media has all but completely ignored, though Beck says TheBlaze’s Chief Content Officer Joel Cheatwood reached out to numerous other networks in an effort to get the story out.   Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refused to acknowledge the story even existed when questioned by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) last Friday.

But now a number of congressional sources have confirmed that the story is as TheBlaze reported last week, and Beck is presenting more pieces of the big picture.

“This week has changed me,” he said at the top of his radio program on Monday.  “The events in Boston changed me….The events in Washington around Boston changed me.”

We crossed an “extraordinarily disturbing threshold” last week, Beck said, but we know “exactly who we’re dealing with now.”

After a discussion of how Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is currently under guard in the hospital, wasn’t read his Miranda rights, Beck proceeded to lay out a number of points on the case.

“While the media continues to look at what the causes were of these two guys, there are, at this hour, three people involved,” he said.  “The first one is the one we are going to address.”

Beck proceeded to highlight the background of the Saudi national first identified as a “person of interest” in the Boston bombings, Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, noting that the the NTC issued an event file calling for his deportation using section 212, 3B which is proven terrorist activity.

“We are not sure who actually tagged him as a ’212 3B,’ but we know it is very difficult to charge someone with this — it has to be almost certain,” Beck explained.  “It is the equivalent in civil society of charging someone with premeditated murder and seeking the death penalty — it is not thrown around lightly.”

Beck continued, noting that after Secretary of State John Kerry met with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud on Tuesday, the FBI began backtracking on the Saudi national from suspect, to person of interest, to witness, to victim, to nobody.

Then, on Wednesday, President Obama had a “chance” encounter with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud and Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir.

“Wednesday at 5:35 p.m. the file is altered,” Beck said.  “This is unheard of, this is impossible in the timeline due to the severity of the charge….You don’t one day put a 212 3B charge against somebody with deportation, and then the next day take it off.  It would require too much to do it.”

“There are only two people that could revoke the deportation order — the director of the NTC could do it after speaking with each department, the FBI, the ATC, etc. — which is impossible to do in such a short period of time, — or, somebody at the very highest levels of the State Department could do it.  We don’t have any evidence to tell you which one did it,” Beck said.

Congressman Duncan is in possession of the original event file along with other members of the House Homeland Security Committee, and have sent a formal letter of request (which we have a copy of) to Napolitano for a classified briefing on the Saudi national and the deportation order.

Beck proceeded to highlight more key points: Blaze sources say the Saudi national was once flagged on a terror watch list and was granted a student visa without being properly vetted.

If, as an ICE official said last week, there is actually a ​second ​Saudi in custody, who is it? Beck asked.  “Why were there were no names, no pictures presented?  The fact is, an event was created for one Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Harbi indicating he was to be deported for terrorism activity related to the Boston bombing. If this file was created with another Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Harbi in mind, don’t you think we should know about it?”

Beck proceeded with more exclusive information:

The Saudi’s student visa specifically allows him to go to school in Findley, Ohio.  He has been in this country six months.  He has an apartment in Boston, Massachusetts.

If this is a case of mistaken identity, then who is the person named in the file, with the same name, with the 3B charge?  And If DHS was working with the person as a source to out the bombers, then why was there a 3B Charge?

Exclusive: Why wasn’t the Congressional Committee on Homeland Security notified?  Why are they being cut out of all information?  This is protocol.

We are working on the family connections, and there is more to come.

Sources tell us this will most likely now be kicked from the DHS to the DOJ and labeled an ongoing investigation that can no longer be discussed.  This will be the reason Napalitano won’t answer the Homeland Security Committee’s request for a briefing.  Like Benghazi they have heavy into a disinformation campaign floating a variety of scenarios to confuse the media — but that apparently doesn’t take much — to prevent the story from being pursued… They are also working very hard to discredit those on the scent.

“I  need you to call your congressmen right now.  There are congressmen who are aware of this, have seen the documentation — they need your support, they need your help,” Beck continued.  “If we do not stand up, he is on a plane tomorrow or he is already gone.”

“We demand answers from the Justice Department and this administration.”

Read more at the Blaze: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/22/beck-breaks-exclusive-information-on-saudi-national-allegedly-connected-to-boston-bombings/


 

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Obamanomics is Taking US Economy to Financial Armageddon While Once Again Taking Seniors to the Cleaners

April 5, 2013 in Abuse of Power, Depression, Economic Deception, Economy, Obamanation, President Obama, Progressivism, Socialism by Admin1

  • Labor Participation Rate90 Million Americans out of Labor Force
  • Labor Participation Rate Down from 63.5% to 63.3%  - Lowest since May 1979 under President Jimmy Carter
  •  8.8 Million On Social Security Disability and are not counted as Unemployed
  • 88,000 Job s created in March - Fewest in 9 Months
  • 496.000 Civilian Jobs lost in March
  • U3 Unemployment rate Down from 7.7% to 7.6% - (This is NOT how we should measure Unemployment)
  •                    Civilian Labor Force dropped by 496,000
  • U6 Unemployment rate is up to 13.8% (This is how we SHOULD measure Unemployment)
  • Federal,State and Local Unemployment rate is a mere 3.6% (This is amazing –  618,000 jobs created in March alone

Barack Hussein Obama’s (BHO’s) Solution to our Economic Woes are incorporated in his Budget Proposal that follows the already Adopted House and Senate Versions:

  • Cut Entitlements like Social Security by the use of “Chained CPI”  - This will cut cost of living increases dramatically. If Seniors will be required to abide by this cost of living mechanism, so should ALL CIVILIAN AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES!   Obama has already stolen 950 Billion from Medicare, now he is going after our Social Security!
  • CUT Medicare even  further by $400 Billion which he calls SAVINGS in his Budget. 
  • Changes to Retirement Accounts - He once again pitches class warfare by cutting benefits to the “Rich”
  • In General BHO is advocating for MORE TAXES. – A Great Solution that will speed-up our economy’s  tailspin

 

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Have You Unwittingly Waived Both Your Child’s and Your Family’s Right of privacy Via Your Local School District?

March 28, 2013 in "Bill of Rights", Abuse of Power, Anarchy, Children, Constitution, Freedom, Glenn Beck, Liberty, Liberty in Jeopardy, Obama's America 2016, Obamanation, Political Deception, President Obama, Privacy by Admin1

Invasion-of-Privacy“Does the Constitution protect the right of privacy?  If so, what aspects of privacy receive protection?

The Supreme Court, however, beginning as early as 1923 and continuing through its recent decisions, has broadly read the “liberty” guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment to guarantee a fairly broad right of privacy that has come to encompass decisions about child rearing, procreation, marriage, and termination of medical treatment.  Polls show most  Americans support this broader reading of the Constitution.”

In order to obtain Federal Funding, school districts are required to develop databases that spy on our children and maintain dossiers on both the child and his or her family! 

If you care about your privacy ant that of  your children, you have to be aware of the transformation that started with George W. Bush and is being trumped, big time, by the Barack Hussein Obama Administration. Only 5 states have opted out of the program namely, Alaska, Nebraska, Minnesota, Texas and Virginia. However, “Today, all 50 states either maintain or are capable of maintaining extensive databases on public-school students.”

SOS: Stand against ‘most important’ piece of fundamental transformation

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Thursday, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:22 PM EST

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Four years ago Glenn talked about the machine progressives were building. The new framework that once ready, they would be able to turn on and fundamentally transform America. What does Glenn feel is THE most important piece of that machinery? Common Core. Using education to indoctrinate the youth has been embedded into the progressive agenda, with both the GOP and Democrats championing the terrifying legislation.

“I don’t know of a time that I have really truly called and put a plea out and sent an SOS out,” Glenn explained at the beginning of radio’s second hour today.

“This has already been done. This is way down the road. You’ll be lucky if it’s not in your school next fall, and it is an end run around your, not only around your state and its sovereignty, but it is an end run around your education department in your state, it is an end run around your board of education in your control community and most importantly it is an end run around you as a parent. It changes fundamentally our entire system. This is I believe the most important piece of fundamental transformation and you are going to hear a few things that you will find hard to believe, but I ask you today to please do your own homework. Do not take this at all from me. Do your own homework, and may I recommend you do it today and then you link arms with people and you get back into your 9/12 group.”

For weeks, Glenn has been exposing indoctrination in schools. It started with an expose on CSCOPE, which expanded to Common Core. It was during last week’s episode on Common Core that a guest discussed the scary amounts of data be collected on kids, and last night Glenn uncovered some of the scariest information on this topic yet.

“I’ve asked the experts, what other country is doing anything like this? The only one that’s even close, and it’s not in this ballpark, is China. There’s no one else in this ballpark. Our children are the guinea pigs for the world. We will lead the way. And do you remember when I said we wouldn’t be destroyed; we would be perverted? Profound darkness on this,” Glenn said.

“What I’m going to lay out for you, none of it is opinion; it all comes from government documents and all from either the stimulus package or from the Department of Education. But this is a hostile takeover, the final takeover, and the roots come from the stimulus package, although I believe George W. Bush started this ball rolling long ago in No Child Left Behind. And it really came from the idea of, ‘You want this money, you’re going to have to live by these standards.’ And that was what was in this stimulus package,” he explained.

The 2009 Stimulus Bill included provisions encouraging states to develop data systems for collecting a large amount of information on public-school kids. Today, all 50 states either maintain or are capable of maintaining extensive databases on public-school students.

“This is the summary of the stimulus package, HR 167 under Department of Education, “education for the disadvantaged” is what it says. And then it says for additional amount for education for the disadvantaged to carry out Title I of the elementary and secondary education act of 1965, $13 billion will be ‑‑ I’m going to have to count the zeros ‑‑ $13 billion will be provided. $5 billion shall be available for targeted grants under Section 1125 of ESEA, provided further that $5 billion shall be available for education finance incentive grants,” Glenn said.

“What that money again goes to in the stimulus, you know, 40 or 50 pages later: Improving collection and use of data. The State will establish a longitudinal data system that includes elements described in Section 604(e)(2)(d) of the America COMPETES Act. So you have to look that up. But that’s the key. If you want any money, you have to put together a data collection service. What is the data collection service? Well, this I contend is one of the reasons why we had the turtle tunnels and everything else that everybody talked about. Because it kept you away from things like this: $5 billion.”

“Now, Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education, called this a historic opportunity. I call it bribery. Race to the Top gave the federal government billions of dollars to dangle in front of the cash‑starved states and they dangled and said, ‘All you have to do is sign up for this program. You’ll get the cash.’ And state after state signed.”

Glenn explained that 45 states have signed on but five have backed out, including Texas. However, in Texas they have replaced it with CSCOPE which is equally dangerous.

“But warning: Texas adopted another program almost exactly like it, and the GOP is protecting that program and so you have to be extraordinarily careful because they’ll just rename it. This is not a liberal agenda, this is not a conservative agenda, this is not Republican or Democrat. This is progressive. It is control. States signed up, and they had to develop data systems for collecting large amounts of information on public schoolchildren, and I mean large amounts,” Glenn said.

“These databases will track all kinds of personal data, including but certainly not limited to healthcare histories, income information, the religious affiliation of your family, voting family status, blood types, blood test result, homework completion, hair color, eye color, whether a child was premature or not, do they have any birthmarks, even bus stop arrival information. It goes deep, deep. If they have 44 data points, they can tell you an awful lot about ‑‑ they can tell you just pretty much anything. These are hundreds of data points collected on your children for over 20 years. This is the groundwork for a national student database that will track your kids and their personal information from preschool until the stated end of 20,” Glenn said.

 

“What Common Core and this data collection system really is, the easiest way to understand it, and this is my personal understanding and my personal opinion. I want to separate fact from my opinion so you’re very clear. But the best way I think to describe it is, you know how China goes in and they find the kids that have the most talent for gymnastics and they’ll say, that kid’s going to be fantastic as a gymnast. That kid is a great mathematician. He’s going to work in our nuclear power programs. That’s what happens. By the time you’re 7, your lot is cast,” Glenn explained.

“That’s exactly what this is and that’s why these corporations want this so much. Because they will cast the lots, they will find the best workers by the time they’re 7 and then they will enrich and empower and educate those kids. But if your kid, God forbid, ends up like me when I was 7 or 8, I don’t have a chance. I will be a cog in the machine forever, and you will ‑‑ there will be no escape. There will be no college education.”

“What you will see is state capitalism. Google, Microsoft, GE, data mining our schools to nudge our children into the job the State deems the most needed for the future,” Glenn warned.

GE is one of the companies funding Common Core through it’s foundation.

Now, most parents would assume that any information collected on their kids by the schools would be protected by some kind of privacy laws, right? Not anymore.

Glenn explained last night:

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act used to protect the privacy of kids and a parents written consent was needed to release data. But in 2012, regulations were used to change the need to get parental consent. Now all the information the schools started collecting in 2009 can be shared among various federal agencies and without consent as long as whoever requests it is “conducting certain studies for or on behalf of the school”. According to the National Data Collection Model, the government should collect information on health-care history, family income and family voting status along with religious affiliation and extra curricular activity, and more.

Glenn warned that when fighting back and spreading the word about Common Core, there is a good chance that concerned parents will be treated like conspiracy theorists. Already in Oregon, parents who pushed back on the program were portrayed as kooks who were anti-science.

“You want more information, we’ll have it for you on TheBlaze. Last night’s program had it. We will continue to do more programs. I warn you this is going to make us very unpopular. It will make you very unpopular, but so far the leader on this has been Michelle Malkin, and we intend on never shutting up, never shutting up. Find all the information at TheBlaze.com. Watch last night’s show on TheBlaze.com/TV. Fire it up, gang.”

 

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Starving Democrats – Sequester Squeeze – Democrat Whines Staffers Can’t Afford Pricey Meals

March 26, 2013 in "Biden the Fool", Abuse of Power, Accountability, Bail Out, Budget, Congress, Debt Crisis, DICTATORSHIP, Economic, Economic Deception, Economy, Gas Price, Generational Theft, Hillary Clinton, Hope and Change, Oust Obama, President Obama, Propaganda, Socialism by admin

A a StarvingStarving Democrats – Texas Congressman Solicits Lobster Donations

Congresswoman’s Crying Shame  – Staffers Can’t Afford “High Quality Meal”

What Sequester? – Veep’s Paris Price Tag Raising Eyebrows
Sequester Squeeze Democrat Whines Staffers Can’t Afford Pricey Meals

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New Obamacare Survey: 60% of Doctors Expect Colleagues to Retire Early

March 25, 2013 in Abuse of Power, Accountability, Anarchy, Dr Ben Carson, ObamaCare, President Obama, Redistribution of Wealth, Socialism by Admin1

6 In 10 Doctors to retireWhat has Obamacare’s deal with AARP that provided them with $2.8B in exclusive insurance underwriting for their help in lobbying for the “Affordable Care Act”, Ben Nelson of Nebraska’s “Cornhusker kickback” to provide FREE expanded coverage , FOREVER,  to secure his crucial vote,  Senator Mary L. Landrieu’s “Louisiana Purchase”  vote that provided $300,000,000.00 that will flood into her state with added ObamaCare  benefits, Congressman  Jim Matheson of Utah ‘s bribe by suddenly nominating his brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. as a judge  to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Congressman Bart Stupak ‘s Federal Aviation Administration payoff of $726,409 for three airports in northern Michigan,  his raid of $716 billion from Medicare in order to provide funding for Medicaid, his Health and Human Services Secretary’s $8 billion slush-fund payout s to Medicare Advantage plans to mask the election year deterioration of the program?

What the crooked Obamacare deals have wrought is a complete invasion of our privacy, 7-feet of Regulations and counting, death panels, the doubling of our Insurance costs and now our Doctors walking away from the profession they cherished! If we don’t repeal this monstrosity before it becomes effective, we will wind up with a third world medical system!!!

Report: More Doctors Plan to Retire Early

Saturday, 23 Mar 2013 11:23 AM

By Matthew Auerbach

A majority of physicians see a somewhat bleak future for medicine, pointing to eroding independence and
shrinking income, reports everydayhealth.com.

According to a survey from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions of more than 600 doctors, six in 10
physicians said they expect many of their colleagues to retire earlier than planned in the next 1 to 3
years.

That perception cuts across age, gender and specialty.

Another 55 percent of doctors surveyed believe many of their colleagues will cut back on their hours
because of the way medicine is changing, although the survey didn’t delineate on how it was changing.

Seventy-five percent believe the best and brightest may not consider a career in medicine, an increase
from the 2011 survey result of 69 percent.

“Physicians recognize ‘the new normal’ will necessitate major changes in the profession that require
them to practice in different settings as part of a larger organization that uses technologies and
team-based models for consumer (patient) care,” the survey’s findings stated.

Approximately two-thirds of those surveyed said they believe physicians and hospitals will work together
more closely in coming years.

Results found that in the last 2 years, 31 percent moved into a larger practice.

Nearly eight in 10 believe midlevel providers will play a larger role in directing primary care.

Four in 10 doctors reported their take-home pay decreased from 2011 to 2012, with more than half said
their pay cut was 10 percent or less, according to the survey.

Among physicians reporting a pay cut, four in 10 blame Obamacare and 48 percent of all doctors believed
their income would drop again in 2013 as a result of the health reform law.

It wasn’t all bad news, however.

Seventy percent of doctors said they were satisfied about practicing medicine, although that number was
lower for primary care providers and higher for younger age groups.

Dissatisfaction was blamed on less one-on-one time with patients, longer hours, and dealing with
Medicare, Medicaid, and government regulations.

Deloitte mailed the survey to more than 20,000 physicians selected from the American Medical
Association’s master file. Just 613 returned completed surveys, giving a margin of error of 3.9 percent
at the 0.95 confidence level.
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The Last Vestige of a Free Press in America is Under Attack by Eric Holder on Behalf of BHO

March 19, 2013 in "Bill of Rights", 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, Abuse of Power, Amnesty, Constitution, Immigration, Liberty, Liberty in Jeopardy, President Obama, White House Fraud by Admin1

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Chavez taking control of Venezuela’s media, according to report

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Free Press under AttackPosted on Friday, August 14, 2009

Juan O. Tamayo | The Miami Herald

An unclassified U.S. intelligence report says Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is “moving forcefully” to stifle media criticism by closing scores of radio stations, tightening controls on one TV station and maneuvering to seize control of another.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/08/14/73718/chavez-taking-control-of-venezuelas.html#storylink=cpy

So you believe that a Chavez like media take over  can’t happen here.

Barack Hussein Obama has his good friend and “Fast and Furious” gun running accomplice,  Attorney General Eric Holder seeking to destroy the Rupert Murdoch news empire so that the Fox Networks can be muzzled.

This may turn out to be the greatest threat to our liberty and consequently to our Constitution, since 911. If our “Dear Leader” and his minions are allowed to move forward on their Fascist policies and  to continue to deprive us of  our 2nd Amendment Rights, adopt United Nations Treaties and implement Amnesty without there being a vehicle or channel available for dissent, not only will Fox be muzzled but so will all  ‘Liberty-Loving Citizens”.

WE had better stand up to these bullies while we can. Call your Senators and Congressmen and tell them to demand that Attorney General Holder cease his witch hunt of News Corp and the Fox Networks. 

Holder Has Joined the War on Fox With Murdoch In His Sights

February 13, 2012

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Rupert Murdoch In Holder’s Sights

The War of Fox continues with attempts being made by our DOJ to dismantle and destroy Rupert Murdoch’s enterprise. Despite ample evidence that almost every news organization in Britain engaged in some type of hacking, the long arm of the Chicago thug, Eric Holder, is attempting to bring Murdoch under U.S. prosecutorial jurisdiction for alleged bribery under the Corrupt Practices Act.

Such a prosecution exposes Murdoch and his executives to fines of tens of millions of dollars and serious jail time.

Holder is attempting to make a connection between the News of the World hacking scandal in Britain and activities at the U.S. based Sun newspaper with the Operation Elevden arrests. Many view it as a witch hunt.

…The latest Operation Elveden arrests sharply increase the danger to News Corporation of potential multimillion dollar fines by US authorities as part of the continuing investigation into alleged bribery of public officials under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

The eight arrests escalate the FCPA crisis for the company by extending the allegations of bribery from the News of the World to the Sun newspaper, and by broadening its scope from police officers to other public officials. An official from the Ministry of Defence and a member of the armed forces were also arrested for alleged corruption and “misconduct in a public office”.

The threat of prosecution under the FCPA constitutes the greatest danger of the phone-hacking scandal for Rupert Murdoch‘s media empire. It could expose the company to tens of millions of dollars in fines and the risk of imprisonment of its executive officers.

It would also bring the scandal to America, which is the financial heart of the global company. News Corporation’s headquarters are on Manhattan’s Sixth Avenue, which is why the company is susceptible to the FCPA, a law introduced in the 1970s to hold US-based companies accountable for acts of bribery and corruption abroad.

Mike Koehler, an expert in FCPA law at Butler university, said Saturday’s arrests marked an escalation in the risk of an FCPA prosecution. “This spreads the alleged bribery to a completely different newspaper, to a different segment of the company and to other public officials,” he said.

Eric Holder, the US attorney general, launched a preliminary investigation into News Corporation’s activities last July. The FBI is known to be involved in the investigation on both sides of the Atlantic…Read here: Guardian UK

It is amazing how Holder has the time to do this while destroying Swiss banks and covering up Fast & Furious.

Read more here: http://www.independentsentinel.com/2012/02/holder-has-joined-the-war-on-fox-with-murdoch-in-his-sights/


 

 

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It’s Good To Be King! – Obama Refuse To Eat Without Food Tester? – Wake Up America!!!!

March 16, 2013 in 2nd Amendment, Abuse of Power, Obama's America 2016, Obamanation, President Obama by admin

a kingWASHINGTON — Following President Obama’s lunch meeting with Senate  Republicans on Capitol Hill, Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins described  the food served and said the president was not able to eat since his “taster”  was not present.

“University of Maine recipe for healthy lobster salad — I pointed that out to  the president in keeping with the first lady’s initiatives and Fox Family Potato  Chips made in Aroostook County where I’m from and wild blueberry pie full of  anti-oxidants, see this was a healthy lunch as well. We did have a little ice  cream on the  pie too, also made in Maine, Gifford’s Ice Cream. So in all seriousness this was  well received,” Collins told reporters on Thursday after the meeting at the  Capitol.

“Unfortunately, you know, the president can’t,” said Collins when asked if  Obama ate at the lunch meeting.

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GOP Lawmakers Consider Issuing Subpoenas to Benghazi Survivors

March 15, 2013 in Abuse of Power, Accountability, Benghazi Coverup, Foreign Policy, Obamanation, Political Deception, President Obama by admin

Benghazi SubpoenasThe Benghazi attack and cover-up is not a Conservative thing, Democrat thing, an Independent thing, a Liberal thing or a Republican thing. It is an American thing that crys out for answers and justice so that future American diplomats and citizens are not ever again subjected to planned barbaric terrorism or left behind to die.

Congress should’t be considering issuing Subpoenas, they should already have been issued moths ago!

 

 

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Barack Hussein Obama’s Obsession with Providing Enemy Combatants with Constitutional Rights is Irrational

March 7, 2013 in "Bill of Rights", Abuse of Power, Constitution, Constitutional, Liberty, National Security, President Obama, United State Military by Admin1

Enemy CombatantsAs a former practicing Constitutional Lawyer and Professor, Barrack Hussein Obama is not only demonstrating irrational behavior, but also unconstitutional behavior that is setting a dangerous precedent. Forget that his decision will prevent us from obtaining important or crucial intelligence about our enemies.  His behavior is Irrational in that it took a filibuster by  Senator Rand Paul to get him to state that American Citizens on American soil, not posing an immediate threat  are to be afforded their Constitutional rights and are not  to be treated as enemy combatants. Irrational because  he is providing enemy combatants  with Constitutional Rights reserved for American Citizens. The following Supreme Court Case is the precedent for the treatment for enemy combatants. Other cases reinforce this decision.

“Supreme court decision, “Ex parte Quirin, 317 U.S.1 (1942), is a Supreme Court of the United States case that upheld the jurisdiction of a United States military tribunal over the trial of several Operation Pastorius German saboteurs in the United States. Quirin has been cited as a precedent for the trial by military commission of any unlawful combatant against the United States.

It was argued July 29 and July 30, 1942 and decided July 31, 1942 with an extended opinion filed October 29, 1942.

 …the law of war draws a distinction between the armed forces and the peaceful populations of belligerent nations and also between those who are lawful and unlawful combatants. Lawful combatants are subject to capture and detention as prisoners of war by opposing military forces. Unlawful combatants are likewise subject to capture and detention, but in addition they are subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals for acts which render their belligerency unlawful. The spy who secretly and without uniform passes the military lines of a belligerent in time of war, seeking to gather military information and communicate it to the enemy, or an enemy combatant who without uniform comes secretly through the lines for the purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property, are familiar examples of belligerents who are generally deemed not to be entitled to the status of prisoners of war, but to be offenders against the law of war subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals.”

What in the world could Barack Hussein Obama’s rationale be, for on the one hand attempting to deny Constitutional Rights to American Citizens, while on the other providing them to enemy combatants?


 

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DHS built domestic surveillance tech into Predator drones

March 7, 2013 in "Bill of Rights", Abuse of Power, Constitutional, Homeland Security, Liberty in Jeopardy, Political Deception, President Obama, Senate by Admin1

Senator Rand Paul has good reason to be concerned about Barack Hussein Obama and his CIA Nominee John Brennan’s potential use of drones to kill American Citizens on American Soil.


predator1_610x346You see, the DHS developed standards and built in domestic surveillance technology into the Predator drones! Since John Brennan  would not unequivocally state, during his Senate nomination hearings,  that killing American citizens on Americans soil who are not imminent threats, with drones is unconstitutional. WE cannot allow the Senate consent to his nomination as CIA chief .  You need to call your Senators and tell them to Vote NO!

 

cnet by Declan McCullagh  

DHS built domestic surveillance tech into Predator drones

Homeland Security’s specifications say drones must be able to detect whether a civilian is armed. Also specified: “signals interception” and “direction finding” for electronic surveillance
Homeland Security required that this Predator drone, built by General Atomics, be capable of detecting whether a standing human at night is “armed or not.”

(Credit: U.S. Department of Homeland Security)

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that have civil libertarians worried: identifying civilians carrying guns and tracking their cell phones, government documents show.

The documents provide more details about the surveillance capabilities of the department’s unmanned Predator B drones, which are primarily used to patrol the United States’ northern and southern borders but have been pressed into service on behalf of a growing number of law enforcement agencies including the FBI, the Secret Service, the Texas Rangers, and local police.

Homeland Security’s specifications for its drones, built by San Diego-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, say they “shall be capable of identifying a standing human being at night as likely armed or not,” meaning carrying a shotgun or rifle. They also specify “signals interception” technology that can capture communications in the frequency ranges used by mobile phones, and “direction finding” technology that can identify the locations of mobile devices or two-way radios.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center obtained a partially redacted copy of Homeland Security’s requirements for its drone fleet through the Freedom of Information Act and published it this week. CNET unearthed an unredacted copy of the requirements that provides additional information about the aircraft’s surveillance capabilities.

Homeland Security’s Predator B drone can stay aloft conducting surveillance for 20 hours.

Drone 2

Concern about domestic use of drones is growing, with federal legislation introduced last month that would establish legal safeguards, in addition to parallel efforts underway from state and local lawmakers. The Federal Aviation Administration recently said that it will “address privacy-related data collection” by drones.

The prospect of identifying armed Americans concerns Second Amendment advocates, who say that technology billed as securing the United States’ land and maritime borders should not be used domestically. Michael Kostelnik, the Homeland Security official who created the program, told Congress that the drone fleet would be available to “respond to emergency missions across the country,” and a Predator drone was dispatched to the tiny

(Credit: U.S. Department of Homeland Security)

town of Lakota, N.D., to aid local police in a dispute that began with reimbursement for feeding six cows. The defendant, arrested with the help of Predator surveillance, lost a preliminary bid to dismiss the charges.

“I am very concerned that this technology will be used against law-abiding American firearms owners,” says Alan Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation. “This could violate Fourth Amendment rights as well as Second Amendment rights.”

Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection agency declined to answer questions about whether direction-finding technology is currently in use on its drone fleet. A representative provided CNET with a statement about the agency’s unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) that said signals interception capability is not currently used:

 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is not deploying signals interception capabilities on its UAS fleet. Any potential deployment of such technology in the future would be implemented in full consideration of civil rights, civil liberties, and privacy interests and in a manner consistent with the law and long-standing law enforcement practices.

 

CBP’s UAS program is a vital border security asset. Equipped with state-of-the-art sensors and day-and-night cameras, the UAS provides real-time images to frontline agents to more effectively and efficiently secure the nation’s borders. As a force multiplier, the UAS operates for extended periods of time and allows CBP to safely conduct missions over tough-to-reach terrain. The UAS also provides agents on the ground with added situational awareness to more safely resolve dangerous situations.

 

During his appearance before the House Homeland Security committee, Kostelnik, a retired Air Force major general who recently left the agency, testified that the drones’ direction-finding ability is part of a set of “DOD capabilities that are being tested or adopted by CBP to enhance UAS performance for homeland security.” CBP currently has 10 Predator drones and is considering buying up to 14 more.

If the Predator drones were used only to identify smugglers or illegal immigrants crossing the Mexican and Canadian borders, or for disaster relief, they might not be especially controversial. But their use domestically by other government agencies has become routine enough — and expensive enough — that Homeland Security’s inspector general said (PDF) last year that CBP needs to sign agreements “for reimbursement of expenses incurred fulfilling mission requests.”

“The documents clearly evidence that the Department of Homeland Security is developing drones with signals interception technology and the capability to identify people on the ground,” says Ginger McCall, director of the Open Government Project at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. “This allows for invasive surveillance, including potential communications surveillance, that could run afoul of federal privacy laws.”

A Homeland Security official, who did not want to be identified by name, said the drones are able to identify whether movement on the ground comes from a human or an animal, but that they do not perform facial recognition. The official also said that because the unarmed drones have a long anticipated life span, the department tries to plan ahead for future uses to support its border security mission, and that aerial surveillance would comply with the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and other applicable federal laws.

The documents show that CBP specified that the “tracking accuracy should be sufficient to allow target designation,” and the agency notes on its Web site that its Predator B series is capable of “targeting and weapons delivery” (the military version carries multiple 100-pound Hellfire missiles). CBP says, however, that its Predator aircraft are unarmed.

Gene Hoffman, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who’s the chairman of the Calguns Foundation, said CBP “needs to be very careful with attempts to identify armed individuals in the border area” when aerial surveillance touches on a constitutional right.

“In the border area of California and Arizona, it may be actively dangerous for the law-abiding to not carry firearms precisely due to the illegal flow of drugs and immigrants across the border in those areas,” Hoffman says.

CBP’s specifications say that signals interception and direction-finding technology must work from 30MHz to 3GHz in the radio spectrum. That sweeps in the GSM and CDMA frequencies used by mobile phones, which are in the 300MHz to 2.7GHz range, as well as many two-way radios.

The specifications say: “The system shall provide automatic and manual DF of multiple signals simultaneously. Automatic DF should be able to separate out individual communication links.” Automated direction-finding for cell phones has become an off-the-shelf technology: one company sells a unit that its literature says is “capable of taking the bearing of every mobile phone active in a channel.”

Although CBP’s unmanned Predator aircraft are commonly called drones, they’re remotely piloted by FAA-licensed operators on the ground. They can fly for up to 20 hours and carry a payload of about 500 lbs.

 
Declan McCullagh is the chief political correspondent for CNET. Declan previously was a reporter for Time and the Washington bureau chief for Wired and wrote the Taking Liberties section and Other People’s Money column for CBS News’ Web site.
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Don’t Allow Colorado’s Blatantly Unconstitutional Gun Laws to Become a Harbinger for MA

March 5, 2013 in "Bill of Rights", 2nd Amendment, Abuse of Power, Constitutional, Deval Patrick, Founding Principles, Freedom, Generational Theft, Liberty, Liberty in Jeopardy, MA, Obamanation, Political Deception, Political Incompetence, President Obama, United States Constitution, US Sovereignty by Admin1

Judge NapolitanoOUR Declaration of Independence states that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

“Unalienable: incapable of being alienated, that is, sold and transferred.” Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, page 1523:

Consequently, one  can not surrender, sell or transfer unalienable rights. They are a gift from the creator to the individual and can not under any circumstances be surrendered or taken.  All individual’s have unalienable rights.

Our Second Amendment states: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

There are today, people in our country,  who are attempting to infringe upon our “right“ to keep and bear arms and would thereby place our personal safety, our family’s safety  and our country’s safety in jeopardy of being overrun by criminality and anarchists.  However, our forefathers understood that our right to bear arms is  so basic and intrinsic a right that not even Government can not eradicate it.  Consequently, we have  an obligation to future generations to guard this right jealously from Federal encroachment by Barack Hussein Obama and State encroachment by Deval Patrick and his minions in our Legislature.

The following are but a few of the multitude of writings by our forefathers regarding this subject:

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. …Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.–Thomas Jefferson, quoting with approval a noted criminologist of his day.

“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” (James Madison, The Federalist Papers #46 at 243-244)

“…to disarm the people – that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” (George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380) 

Today Megan Kelly talked to Judge Andrew Napolitano about Colorado’s blatantly unconstitutional gun law proposals:

Megan Kelly:  Colorado is becoming a hot spot in the fight over second Amendment Rights today after a legislative committee approves a controversial bill that would make weapons manufacturers and sellers liable for crimes committed with their guns.

This legislation would become one of the most dramatic gun laws in the country and is polarizing the state. The lawmakers in Colorado believe that they have the votes. And what they are trying to do is impose criminal liability or civil liability?

Judge Andrew Napolitano:  Civil liability for the manufacturer or the re-seller if the gun is used to commit a crime .

Megan Kelly:  So  if I have I’m in a gun shop business  and  I got a gun shop and I sell someone a gun and they use it and kill somebody, I could  potentially get sued as the gun shop owner?

Judge Andrew Napolitano:  Yes, as is could the manufacturer from whom you bought the gun.  And if the person to whom you sold it sells it to another person, then the person to whom you sold it could be liable for the criminal behavior of the ultimate user. That’s why you heard in one of the clips you just ran, police saying, police testifying at this hearing; this is un- enforceable. You can’t possibly impose a burden on on-d the third person down the line.

Megan Kelly:  How far down the line can you go?

Judge Andrew Napolitano:  Think about it. Can we , we hold General Motors liable because an automobile kills someone even if its used recklessly, even if it’s used criminally? Of course not! We just don’t do that in America. This transference of liability is basically wrong and unfair.


 

 

 

 

 

 

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12 Things That Just Happened That Show The Next Wave Of The Economic Collapse Is Almost Here

March 4, 2013 in 2nd Amendment, Abuse of Power, America's Collapse, America's Heritage, Congress, Constitution, Cooking the Books, Deval Patrick, Economic Deception, Generational Theft, Gun Control, Intimidation, Liars, Liberty, Liberty in Jeopardy, Obamanation, Patriotism, Political Deception, Political Incompetence, President Obama, Propaganda, Quantitative Easing, Sequestration, US Sovereignty by Admin1

Mark SteynOur government is lying to us. The reason Barack Hussein Obama began his strategy of “Blame” over “Sequestration” is because he knows that the economic collapse of the US economy is coming and he needs a scapegoat! His “full court press” in the media is perpetuating his grievous “lie” that an “Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny” Sequestration cut will cause catastrophic damage to our economy.

Besides the following article, other independent economists, who, using the same data as our US Bureau of  Labor Statistics reach the entirely different conclusion that our unemployment rates are INCREASING, not DECREASING. 

Thomas Jefferson said that, To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us down with perpetual debt….I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple.”  We have thrown his warnings to the wind and now because of our economic gluttony of QE1, QE2, QE3, QE4 etc., face the loss of our Independence and sovereignty as well. 

Folks, an economic collapse will place our  Bill of Rights and our Constitution in grave jeopardy! The dumbing down of  our last generation has left them without an understanding of the source of the Rights  that they enjoy.

Without the Bill of Rights,  our 2nd Amendment and our ability to protect and preserve our Constitution and our “Natural Rights” will be abolished.  All of the proposed  State and Federal Gun Laws being proposed would have practically no affect on stopping incidents like Newtown while having a vital affect on our Constitutional right to preserve and protect our families and country.   

This is a time for action! Don’t allow either the Obama or  the Patrick Administrations to take away any more of your Constitutional Rights! Call your State and Senators and representatives and tell them NO on Unconstitutional Gun Control measures and  on our “drunken sailor” Spending. 

12 Things That Just Happened That Show The Next Wave Of The Economic Collapse Is Almost Here

 By Michael, on March 3rd, 2013�

12 Things That Just Happened That Show The Next Wave Of The Economic Collapse Is Almost HereAre we running out of time?  For the last several years, we have been living in a false bubble of hope that has been fueled by massive amounts of debt and bailout money.  This illusion of economic stability has convinced most people that the great economic crisis of 2008 was just an “aberration” and that now things are back to normal.  Unfortunately, that is not the case at all.  The truth is that the financial crash of 2008 was just the first wave of our economic troubles.  We have not even come close to recovering from that wave, and the next wave of the economic collapse is rapidly approaching.  Our economy is like a giant sand castle that has been built on a foundation of debt and toilet paper currency.  As each wave of the crisis hits us, the solutions that our leaders will present to us will involve even more debt and even more money printing.  And each time, those “solutions” will only make our problems even worse.  Right now, events are unfolding in Europe and in the United States that are pushing us toward the next major crisis moment.  I sincerely hope that we have some more time before the next crisis overwhelms us, but as you will see, time is rapidly running out.

The following are 12 things that just happened that show the next wave of the economic collapse is almost here…

#1 According to TrimTab’s CEO Charles Biderman, corporate insider purchases of stock have hit an all-time low, and the ratio of corporate insider selling to corporate insider buying has now reached an astounding 50 to 1….

While retail is being told to buy-buy-buy, Biderman exclaims that “insiders at U.S. companies have bought the least amount of shares in any one month,” and that the ratio of insider selling to buying is now 50-to-1 – a monthly record.

#2 On Friday we learned that personal income in the United States experienced its largest one month decline in 20 years…

Personal income decreased by $505.5 billion in January, or 3.6%, compared to December (on a seasonally adjusted and annualized basis). That’s the most dramatic decline since January 1993, according to the Commerce Department.

#3 In a stunning move, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder says that he will appoint an emergency financial manager to take care of Detroit’s financial affairs…

Snyder, 54, took a step he avoided a year ago, empowering an emergency financial manager who can sweep aside union contracts, sell municipal assets, restructure services and reorder finances. He announced the move yesterday at a public meeting in Detroit.

If this does not work, Detroit will almost certainly have to declare bankruptcy.  If that happens, it will be the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

#4 On Friday it was announced that the unemployment rate in Italy had risen to 11.7 percent.  That was a huge jump from 11.3 percent the previous month, and Italy now has the highest unemployment rate that it has experienced in 21 years.

#5 The youth unemployment rate in Italy has risen to a new all-time record high of 38.7 percent.

#6 On Friday it was announced that the unemployment rate in the eurozone as a whole had just hit a brand new record high of 11.9 percent.

#7 On Friday it was announced that the unemployment rate in Greece has now reached 27 percent, and it is being projected that it will reach30 percent by the end of the year.

#8 The youth unemployment rate in Greece is now an almost unbelievable 59.4 percent.

#9 On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of protesters filled the streets of Lisbon and other Portuguese cities to protest the austerity measures that are being imposed upon them.  It was reportedly the largest protest in the history of Portugal.

#10 According to Goldman Sachs, bank deposits declined all over Europe during the month of January.

#11 Over the weekend, the deputy governor of China’s central bank declared that China is prepared for a “currency war“…

A top Chinese banker said Beijing is “fully prepared” for a currency war as he urged the world to abide by a consensus reached by the G20 to avert confrontation, state media reported on Saturday.

Yi Gang, deputy governor of China’s central bank, issued the call after G20 finance ministers last month moved to calm fears of a looming war on the currency markets at a meeting in Moscow.

Those fears have largely been fuelled by the recent steep decline in the Japanese yen, which critics have accused Tokyo of manipulating to give its manufacturers a competitive edge in key export markets over Asian rivals.

#12 Italy is an economic basket case at this point, and the political gridlock in Italy is certainly not helping matters.  Former comedian Beppe Grillo’s party could potentially tip the balance of power one way or the other in Italy, and over the weekend he made some comments that are really shaking things up over in Europe.  For one thing, he is suggesting that Italy should hold a referendum on the euro…

“I am a strong advocate of Europe. I am in favor of an online referendum on the euro,” Beppe Grillo told Bild am Sonntag.

Such a vote would not be legally binding in Italy, where referendums can only be used to repeal laws or parts of laws, but would carry political weight. Grillo has said in the past that membership of the euro should be up to the Italian people.

In addition, Grillo is also suggesting that Italy’s debt has gotten so large that renegotiation is the only option…

In an interview with a German magazine published on Saturday, Mr Grillo said that “if conditions do not change” Italy “will want” to leave the euro and return to its former national currency.

The 64-year-old comic-turned-political activist also said Italy needs to renegotiate its €2 trillion debt.

At 127 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), it is the highest in the euro zone after Greece.

“Right now we are being crushed, not by the euro, but by our debt. When the interest payments reach €100 billion a year, we’re dead. There’s no alternative,” he told Focus, a weekly news magazine.

He said Italy was in such dire economic straits that “in six months, we will no longer be able to pay pensions and the wages of public employees.”

And of course government debt has taken center stage in the United States as well.

The sequester cuts have now gone into effect, and they will definitely have an effect on the U.S. economy.  Of course that effect will not be nearly as dramatic as many Democrats are suggesting, but without a doubt those cuts will cause the U.S. economy to slow down a bit.

And of course the U.S. economy has already been showing plenty of signs of slowing down lately.  If you doubt this, please see my previous article entitled “Consumer Spending Drought: 16 Signs That The Middle Class Is Running Out Of Money“.

So what comes next?

Well, everyone should keep watching Europe very closely, and it will also be important to keep an eye on Wall Street.  There are a whole bunch of indications that the stock market is at or near a peak.  For example, just check out what one prominent stock market analyst recently had to say…

“Every reliable technical tool is warning of major peaking action,” said Walter Zimmerman, the senior technical analyst at United-ICAP. “This includes sentiment, momentum, classical chart patterns, and Elliott wave analysis.

“Most of the rally in the stock market since 2009 can be chalked up to the Federal Reserve’s attempt to create a ‘wealth effect’ through higher stock market prices. This only exacerbates the downside risk. Why? The stock market no is longer a lead indicator for the economy. It is instead reflecting  Fed manipulation. Pushing the stock market higher while the real economy languishes has resulted in another bubble.

“The next leg down will not be a partial correction of the advance since the 2009 lows. It will be another major financial crisis. The worst is yet to come.”

Sadly, most people will continue to deny that anything is wrong until it is far too late.

Many areas of Europe are already experiencing economic depression, and it is only a matter of time before the U.S. follows suit.

Time is running out, and I hope that you are getting ready.

So what do you think?

How much time do you believe that we have left before the next wave of the economic collapse strikes?

 

Jeff Rowley Big Wave Surfer wipeout Photo Jaws Peahi by Xvolution Media

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Obama’s Support for UN Gun Treaty Could Fundamentally Change American Gun Laws and Threaten our Second Amendment Rights

March 3, 2013 in 2nd Amendment, Abuse of Power, America's Heritage, Constitutional, Freedom, Liberty in Jeopardy, Obamanation, President Obama, President Ronald Reagan, Treason, Treaties, United Nations by Admin1

2nd Amendment The nine  most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the  government and I’m here to help.’

Ronald Reagan Quote on American Government’s Bureaucracy
40th president of US 

 

The nine most reassuring words in the English language are,  I’m from the UN and I’m here to help.

Barack Hussein Obama’s Conviction on Global Government’s Paternity
44th president of US

Obama continues his propaganda Blitzkrieg against America, American values and our Constitution’s Bill of Rights. Whether it’s his lies about  Sequestration, about Fast and Furious, about Benghazi or about UN Treaties. Whether it’s his pitting of men against women, young against old,  poor against rich, or  one race against another,  his narcissist arrogance isn’t phased in the least.

“I mean the fact is the UN doesn’t protect people it doesn’t save the innocent . I mean you can stack to the ceiling the bodies of the innocent [a] thousand times over that the UN has failed to protect.  The dead people don’t get to vote on this UN treaty and Americans don’t want to be added to that pile of dead people that have been left defenseless by the UN policies.”

Wayne LaPierre                                                                                                                                                           Executive Vice-President and chief Executive Officer                                                                                                     National Rifle Association

Leaving nothing to chance, Obama is pursuing a multi-pronged Blitzkrieg against our 2nd Amendment. “While many states are taking steps to expand gun rights, the Federal Government is moving the other way.  President Obama is even using the nation’s premier public health agency to further the agenda.”



Still think you can trust the government, police and military....better think again!


DEMOCIDE: Socialism, Tyranny, Guns And Freedom


depicts what could happen to a disarmed America!


This will scare the hell out of you!!


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Just Another Obama Lie Which He Hopes Will Cause Republicans to Cave on Sequestration


							
February 27, 2013 in Abuse of Power, Anarchist, Debt Crisis, dictator, Economic Deception, Fiscal Cliff, Generational Theft, Indoctrination, Intimidation, Liars, Obamanation, Political Deception, President Obama, Propaganda, Redistribution of Wealth, Socialist, Treason, White House Fraud, Who Is Barack Hussein Obama? by Admin1


							

								
Barack Hussein Obama invented Sequestration




Obama LaughingNow it looks like Obama and his Thugs miscalculated on Sequestration. They have been using the imminent implementation of Sequestration to conspire with their media minions  in attempting to coerce the Republicans to once again cave to  Community organizer’s wicked lying  propaganda rants that have increased in volume and intensity as we approach the February 1st implementation.




The Republicans didn’t cave immediately and thereby created  a potentially disastrous political dilemma for Our Dear Leader. His political cohorts are telling him that if Sequestration becomes effective and the sky doesn’t fall, Barack will have a sever credibly problem, even among his loyal supporters.


If you take a look at the GDP math below that shows about a half cent hit for every non sequestrated GDP dollar, or even if you don’t, there is only one unquestionable conclusion that becomes evident.


Obama’s rants on Sequestration are a contrived comedy about  “Much A do about Nothing ”


That’s Right! There is no appreciable affect on our economy, even if he jawbone’s Ben Bernake  into saying so!


Call Your Senators and Representatives and tell them to let Sequestration to go into affect so that we can bring our $16.6T ever increasing Debt Crisis under control!


Analyses of Sequestration Affect on 2013 GDP:


The size of a nation’s economy is the total value of the spending on goods and services in the nation in a year. This spending occurs in the form of transactions within and between these three sectors. The flip side of this spending is production, because you can buy only what has been produced. So we can also measure an economy based on its production. Therefore, when you add up all of these transactions—and the value of foreign trade—the result is gross domestic product, or GDP. The formula for GDP is:


GDP = C + I + G + (Ex – Im)


where “C” equals spending by consumers,

“I” equals investment by businesses,

“G” equals government spending and

“(Ex – Im)” equals net exports, that is, the value of exports minus imports. Net exports may be negative.


According to Infoplease the  composition of GDP breaks down roughly as follows:


Consumption:   65%


Investment:       15%


Government:     20%


Net Exports:     0.0%


The CBO Projection for 2013 GDP is $16.198Trillion


2013 without Sequestration


C = $16.198T X .65 =10.5287 Trillion


G = $16.198T X .2 = $3.2396 Trillion


I =  $16.198T  X .15 =$2.4297 Trillion


2013 with Sequestration  


- Assumes that the only variable is the $85B removed from  G, the Government Budget Contribution  while  C, I  remain constant


$16.198T – .085T =$16.113 T


C = $10.5287 Trillion


G = $3.2396T- .$085T = $ 3.1546 Trillion


I =  $2.4297 Trillion


What is the affect of Sequestration on GDP?


(Sequestration GDP  divided by Non-Sequestration GDP   minus 1) x 100 = Percent


($16.113T/ $16.198T) -1  = 0.0099 = .99% or about 1%


The $85B in Sequestration would reduce GDP by 1-cent for  every dollar of a  Non Sequestration GDP.


 


Since one-half of the $85T in Sequestration is slated for FY 2014, Sequestration will reduce the  FY 2013 Sequestration GDP  by about one-half a penny  for every  Non Sequestration dollar.



 


							


															
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Barack Obama’ war on America; Criminal Illegal Aliens Being Released Into Our Communities


							
February 27, 2013 in Abuse of Power, Accountability, Amnesty, Illegal Aliens, Our Dear Leader, Political Incompetence, President Obama, Sequestration, Socialist, Treason by Admin1


							

								
Barack Obama’ war on America


Posted by  Judson Phillips  on February 27, 2013 at 6:22am in Tea Party Nation Forum


Criminal ReleaseBarack Obama and the Party of Treason hate America.   It is no longer a policy difference.  With Obama and the far-left shills for the Democrats, it has never been about policy.   They do not want to debate issues and let the best idea win.  They want to defeat anyone who disagrees with them at all costs.


Now the Obama Regime is showing its total contempt and hatred for those who disagree with it.


How are they doing this?


In advance of the Budget Sequestration that is set to start on March 1st, the Obama Regime is releasing illegal aliens into American communities.


The sequestration has not even hit yet and the Obama Regime is trying to hurt Americans




The illegal aliens being released are not simply illegal aliens, but these are criminal illegal aliens.    These are illegal aliens who have been charged or convicted of criminal offenses.  Usually it is more than one.


Instead of deporting these criminal aliens, the Department of Homeland Security is literally turning them out of the prisons.    Where is most of this happening?


Arizona.


That is no accident.


Arizona is a red state.  Arizona dared to defy Barack Obama and even took him to the Supreme Court and won.


Over the weekend, in Pinal County, Arizona, DHS released hundreds of criminal illegal aliens.  They did not even notify the local sheriff they were releasing these criminals.


The Obama Regime claims they must do this because of the upcoming budget sequester.


The sequester is not causing the release but the Obama Regime is desperate to create a crisis.


Why?


What happens if the modest 2% cut in spending goes through?


Probably nothing.  Most Americans will not see any change.


That is the great fear of the Obama Regime.


If the world does not end with this modest spending cut, then the Republicans and the American people will start asking, what else can we cut.  Where else can we cut?


For Barack Obama who is determined to bankrupt America before the end of his second term, this is unacceptable.


So Barack Obama is releasing criminal illegal aliens onto the streets of at least one red state.


How many people will die because Obama is releasing criminal illegal aliens?  How many people will be injured?   How many crimes will be committed?


Obama doesn’t care.  Arizona is a red state.


He doesn’t care because for Obama, the ends justify the means.   Obama does not care that he took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution because the Constitution means nothing to him.    Obama does not care because he hates America and Americans.


Instead of being responsible, Barack Obama is trying to make the spending cuts as painful as possible.  Instead of stopping a few of those crony grants to “green energy” projects, he is keeping the Navy tied up in port.  Instead of cutting advertising to promote food stamps, he is releasing criminals on the streets to rampage and make the people of America pay for daring to elect Republicans to try and stop him.


Barack Obama is hell bent on destroying America.  Americans will die because of his desire to punish those who disagree with him.


The question is will the Republicans in Washington ever stand up to him?


 


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If Sequestration is Repealed, Will America Become the Next Weimar Republic?


							
February 24, 2013 in Abuse of Power, Debt Crisis, Debt Limit, Economic Deception, Economy, Fiscal Cliff, President Obama, Sequestration by Admin1


							

								
hyperinflation1The Weimar Republic is the name given to the federal republic and parliamentary representative democracy established in 1919 in Germany to replace its pre-WWI imperial form of government. It was named after Weimar, the city where the constitutional assembly took place. The Weimar‘s Constitution was signed on August 11, 1919 and was deposed by Hitler’s Third Reich ascendency in February/March 1933. During its fourteen year existence the Weimar Republic was burdened by hefty reparations imposed by the victors of WWI, political extremist from both the Left and Right as well as rampant hyperinflation that permitted Hitler to seize power  and dissolve the Constitution.  The caption below the above photo of a one Hundred Million Mark note[A mark was equivalent to our $1-dollar bill] reads:  In 1923, a German housewife burned mark notes in her kitchen stove since it was cheaper to burn marks than to buy firewood.


 


 


weimar-wheelbarrow-1-loaf-breadThe vision most vividly embedded into the minds of  school children studying the era is one of a wheelbarrow filled with thousands or millions of marks  to purchase a single loaf of bread! The photo at left taken during this period, depicts that scenario.


When Barack Hussein Obama came into office, our FY2009  Budget stood at $3.1Trillion. Today the FY2013 Budget is at $3.8Trillion. Sequestration, which is a program devised by President Obama, cuts $85B across-the-board from THE RATE OF INCREASE of theFY2012 budge of 3.72Trillion. It DOES NOT DECREASE  the FY2013 total budget amount from that of FY2012. Of the phantom $85B in cuts, half isslated to be  removed from Defense Spending  and half from Entitlement Spending. The $85B in phantom cuts represents measly 2.2% of our $3.8T Budget.


The FY2013 Budget consists of 60% Mandatory Spending and 40% Discretionary Spending. Mandatory spending is spending that is required under existing law. In passing, it needs to be noted that while Defense spending represents 19% of the FY2012 Budget, it is slated for 50% of the FY2013 Sequestration cuts. 


Last Fall, Jim Rogers, the founder of Rogers International Commodity Index and economic guru,” predicted that America is headed to a “Financial Armageddon”. Rogers stated  that he was absolutely convinced that the economy would burst soon after the election. He  also stated that he has never been a supporter of the policy of quantitative easing.[ The Federal Reserve can just create dollars out of thin air by buying up assets like long-term Treasuries or mortgage-backed securities from commercial banks and other institutions. These "thin air" dollars created by the Federal Reserve flow into the banks, and in turn are pumped into the U.S. economy and ultimately reduce our long-term interest rates. The theory is that when long-term interest rates go down, investors  have a greater incentive to spend their money.] Jim Rogers is also quite certain that our Government needs to cut spending in order to reduce our burgeoning debt. Rogers also stated that German Chancellor Angela Marker and Obama were promoting policies which were just another disguise for hiding the real state of their economies.


www.usgovernmentpending.com is estimating that the US debt to GDP will exceed 100% for 2012.  Two American economists, Carmen Reinhardt and Ken Rogoff, argue that growth slows sharply in countries where the ratio of debt to GDP exceeds 90 percent.


So there you have it. Barack Hussein Obama is jawboning Congress about Sequestration, seeking even  more deficit spending that will most certainly result in even slower growth, less jobs and further US credit rating downgrades.  Are you going to push back on the President and his propaganda squads and support a strong America, or are you going to sit idly by and watch our economy and country slide further into the abyss?


 

							


															
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