Revitalization of the State Militias

A Review of Edwin Vieira’s “The Sword and Sovereignty”

by Nelson Hultberg

On April 19, 1775, the battles of Lexington and Concord on the outskirts of Boston ignited the conflict that led to the most momentous political event of man’s history – the Declaration of Independence and the birth of America. In the early morning hours of that day, a command of British troops was dispatched from Boston to search out and confiscate stores of militia weapons and supplies at Concord. On the way they confronted a small and unimposing band of armed American militia at Lexington. The British Major John Pitcairn shouted out, “Ye villains, ye Rebels, disperse; damn you, disperse! Lay down your arms!”

The American militia was under the command of Captain, John Parker; and their orders were to remain non-antagonistic to the British. They were outnumbered by almost ten to one. So why didn’t they lay down their arms when ordered to do so? “Because,” says constitutional scholar Edwin Vieira, “Free men with a duty to keep and bear arms never willingly lay down their arms”. And at Lexington, none of them did.” The heroic militia Captain John Parker warned his men, “if they mean to have a war let it begin here.” And begin it did.

Importance of the State Militias

With his newest book, The Sword and Sovereignty, Edwin Vieira, Jr., has given us a magisterial work that meticulously documents the history of the early American Militias and why similar units must be revitalized today if we are to adequately confront our disintegration as a society and restore the republic that the Founders gave us. It is a book that will profoundly shock 98 percent of Americans. It is so overpowering in its legal logic and constitutional veracity that the intellectuality of Cicero and Plutarch comes to mind as one reads the prose. It is not a book that can be read lightly; it demands a tolerance for legal thought and abstract conceptualization. But for those “men of the mind” who understand the importance of ideas in the unfolding of history, the effort will be most rewarding. You will be shown an entirely new way of seeing things regarding guns, militia, the Second Amendment, homeland security, how they intertwine, and how they have been grossly misrepresented by quisling, pseudo-experts of the establishment.

For the first 125 years of our history, the “Militia of the several States” was a highly honored institution that played a vital role in preserving the concept of federalism upon which our system of freedom depends. This ended with the Militia Act of 1903, which shifted the “Militias of the several States” into National Guard units under the auspices of the national military. State and local control was eliminated.

In addition, as Vieira tells us, over the past century decades “of disuse, misuse, and abuse have so thoroughly muddled the meaning of ‘Militia’ in contemporary American political discourse that the word is hardly ever encountered except as invective, usually well-freighted with vituperative adjectives such as ‘extremist’ and ‘violent’, broadcast by the enemies of constitutional government (and their dupes and other ‘useful idiots’) for the purpose of intimidating into silence the people they intend to oppress as soon as the vast majority of Americans has been thoroughly disarmed through one form of ‘gun control’ or another.”

Anybody today with a modicum of brains can see that our nation is being transformed into a “first-class police state.” Homeland Security and Washington’s outrageous “Patriot Acts” are Alice in Wonderland institutions that have taken us a giant step down the path to Orwell’s nightmare. Our military-industrial complex grows exponentially. The Federal Government has become a Godzilla of ugliness and menace. Our Congressmen are Machiavellian schemers wallowing in sophistic mazes and treason to truth.

Vieira’s answer to this pernicious evolution is startling. As with all big thinkers in history, he asks us (like Steve Jobs did to his comrades at Apple) to “Think Different!” He maintains that America cannot be saved unless she revitalizes her original concept of the “Militia of the several States.” The Sword and Sovereignty explains – in 1,945 pages of text and 305 pages of appendixes, tables, and notes – why this must be done and how to constitutionally do it. Magisterial scholarship is putting it mildly.

History and Restoration of the Militias

The book explores the legal history of the pre-constitutional Militia statutes of colonial times to demonstrate that armed and well-regulated Militias formed on the state level are what the Founders intended for the provision of “homeland security.” The monstrosity of today’s centralized Homeland Security Department in Washington is not needed; a revival of the “Militias of the several States” and unequivocal acknowledgement of the people’s right to bear arms will give us everything we require. This will decentralize “security” in the country and help greatly to check the ominous peril of the military-industrial complex.

Many Americans will perceive this as a quixotic attempt to turn back the clock and revive a hopeless anachronism that prevailed in the era of flintlock muskets and tri-cornered caps. Not so. Vieira demonstrates his points legally with the same overpowering logic that Ludwig von Mises puts forth economically in Human Action. Mises was relentless in rational destructions of the socialists’ sinister fallacies. So too is Vieira in his dismantling of the arguments of today’s collectivist control freaks.

After he traces the legal history of pre-constitutional Militia and gun statutes, he then lays out seventeen fundamental principles (in seventeen chapters) to define how the constitutional structure and service of a revitalized “Militia of the several States” would be validated. When one is done reading these seventeen chapters, he sees clearly that a revitalization of the state Militias is constitutionally legitimate and workable in the modern day. Whether or not they can be revived is, of course, an open question. There is huge opposition in all establishment schools, bureaucracies, and courts to such a radical restructuring of society’s power relationships. But Vieira demonstrates in compelling fashion why and how it can be done if Americans still have the will.

One of the most profound parts of the book is its explanation in Chapter One of the present day fallacy of “judicial supremacy,” showing how the Supreme Court is not the ultimate judge of “what the law is.” Congress stands above the Court and may stipulate how the Judges are to interpret the laws. But most importantly, the People stand above Congress, for they are the creators of Congress via the Constitution. WE THE PEOPLE rule in America, not congressional despots and judicial oligarchs.

As the famous eighteenth century jurist, Sir William Blackstone, observed in Commentaries on the Laws of England, “whenever a question arises between the society at large and any magistrate vested with powers originally delegated by that society, it must be decided by the voice of the society itself: there is not upon earth any other tribunal to resort to.”

Thus the salvation of America must come with reassertion of the citizens’ fundamental right to decide the ultimate issues of their lives. Through political techniques such as nullification on the part of juries and state governments the overweening excesses of today’s Federal Government and its bureaucratic thugs can be brought to heel.

It is important to understand that Vieira is NOT proposing “private” Militias, the likes of which we have seen in recent years from racial supremacy groups and neo-Nazi extremists. What Vieira is proposing is the revitalization of governmentally created and legitimized Militia units among the states that our Constitution calls irrevocably for. These will be legislated and regulated by the state governments. They will be official government bodies in all the towns and cities of the land, not rogue factions that operate from wilderness hideouts. The leftist establishment media will, no doubt, attempt to portray Vieira’s plan as the promotion of wilderness wackos reveling in burning crosses and white sheets; but hopefully learned Americans will recognize such smear tactics as the inexcusable liberal vacuity that it is.

Benefits of Militia Restoration

There are so many benefits to such revitalization. As Vieira writes, “Today, at every level of the federal system, America is woefully unprepared to deal effectively with hurricanes, tornados, floods, earthquakes, and other natural disasters; with major industrial accidents, such as leakages from offshore oil-drilling rigs or meltdowns of nuclear power plants; with epidemics and pandemics; with crop failures and possibly attendant famines; with invasions through the Volkerwanderung of illegal immigration; with economic breakdowns, and in particular a collapse of this country’s monetary and banking systems; and with the myriad threats posed by real terrorism. ‘[W]ell regulated Militia’, however, not only could deal with the consequences of such events, but also could forefend many of them.”

In addition, the Militia can be used to investigate the constitutionality of the laws that they execute, they can supervise honest elections, they can help to repel invasions, they can help local police, they can be very instrumental in defeating the machinations of globalism, etc.

Another crucial point to grasp is that the revitalized Militia will not be in anyway a part of the regular military, nor will they be under the thumb of Congress. This is the way the Constitution established them in the beginning, and this is the way they must be revived. They will be institutions of unity and defense at the state government level. Their revival will begin the vital process of restoring “federalism.”

Owning Guns Not Enough

Vieira explains that the individual right to bear arms as a defense against tyranny will not suffice in and of itself. “For, confronted by usurpers and tyrants deploying ‘standing armies’ and para-militarized police forces, or by hordes of foreign invaders, armed individuals in isolation or in small groups would likely prove feckless.”

In other words, just the right to bear arms is not enough. What is necessary is the establishment of collective, coordinated state Militias. This is why the Second Amendment says, “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.”

The pre-constitutional colonial and state statutes during the 150 years leading up to 1787, demonstrate irrefutably that Militias organized on the state and local levels were held by the patriots of the era to be vital for the defense of freedom and order in the republic. The modern day is no different; in fact, such institutions are even more vital. Upon this right of individual and local self-defense, there can be no compromise.

Most libertarians and conservatives are aware of the recent testimony in front of Congress by Suzanna Hupp regarding our right to bear arms. She was one of the victims of the tragic Luby’s massacre in Killeen, Texas in 1991 and lost both her parents to the gun-toting madman. She testified to our Washington solons that if she had been allowed to carry the gun she owned in her purse, she would have been able to kill the madman and would have saved numerous lives including her parents.

Then she topped off her heroic testimony with these searing words as she stared Senator Charles Schumer and his imperious cronies right in the eyes: “I am sitting here getting more and more fed up with all of this talk about these pieces of machinery having no legitimate sporting purpose, no legitimate hunting purpose. People, that is not the point of the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting….It is about our rights, all of our rights to be able to protect ourselves from all of you guys up there.”

How to Bring About the Revitalization

The Militias of early America in both pre and post Constitution eras were basically compulsory institutions. The states mandated that all able-bodied men were subject to membership and duty. In other words the states had the right to impress citizens into the Militia. This, of course, will not be acceptable to the libertarian community of the modern day. So if the Militias are to be revived, they will have to be voluntarily joined as Independent Militia Companies formed by the state governments. And this is the procedure that Vieira advocates. Independent Militia Companies must spring up under the auspices of the state governments via volunteers.

Vieira goes into detail, however, explaining how the early American viewpoint was that membership in the Militias had to be compulsory, and that eventually they should be formed into such units as Americans are educated in this upcoming century toward their duties as well as their rights in maintaining a free republic. He makes a very passionate case for regaining the “all for one and one for all” spirit that animated early Americans’ willingness to tolerate compulsory membership in their local Militias. Being a political libertarian, I would disagree on this point and rely permanently on voluntary units as the undergirding structure to revitalization. The Militias might not work as efficiently, and their memberships might not be spread as evenly among all citizens, but they will be a lot safer units of government under volunteer recruitment policies.

The Founders understood the power lusting nature of man and the necessity for citizens to be armed and organized at all times as protection from their rulers. Suzanna Hupp understands this. Edwin Vieira understands it. And now we as a people must come to realize it. Our right to bear arms has nothing to do with duck hunting. State Militias have nothing to do with wilderness wackos.

“The struggle that has been thrust upon Americans,” writes Vieira, “is not one to preserve the uniquely American way of life, but to restore it.” The plague of factions and collectivist usurpers have decimated the republic. “Today, the true America exists only as fleeting, dissipating shadows of her former self.”

The Sword and Sovereignty’s message will go a long way toward restoring that resplendent America we lost. It is a profoundly patriotic work of powerful impact that can direct our intelligentsia toward a rediscovery of our real roots. Any thinking man or woman today who fears for America’s survival needs to tackle this book. It is available in CD format at Amazon.
Nelson Hultberg * February 10 2013

Nelson Hultberg is a freelance writer in Dallas, Texas and the Director of Americans for a Free Republic www.afr.org. His articles have appeared in such publications as the Dallas Morning News, The American Conservative, Insight, The Freeman, and Liberty, as well as on numerous Internet sites such as The Daily Bell, Financial Sense, and Safe Haven. He is also the author of The Golden Mean: Libertarian Politics, Conservative Values to be released in March of 2013. Nelson Hultberg also wrote the book which inspired James Jaeger to make the documentary movie “SPOiLER“, which featured Ron Paul, G. Edward Griffin, Pat Buchanan, Chuck Baldwin, Edwin Vieira, and Nelson Hultberg. Nelson’s book is entitled  The Conservative Revolution: Why We Must Form A Third Political Party To Win It.

Email Nelson Hultberg at: nelshultberg@aol.com

Editor’s Note: Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr.’s book “The Sword And Sovereignty” is not a paper book, but instead is a CD-ROM pdf. It is available at Amazon dot Com, < here >

At Amazon’s page for this CD-ROM is the following synopsis:

The Sword and Sovereignty: The Constitutional Principles of the Militia of the several States is a comprehensive CD-ROM study-2,304 pages in length, with 6,544 footnotes and endnotes-of the constitutional and statutory history of Americas Militia, which gives special emphasis to the unique and indispensable role of the Militia as the institutions through which WE THE PEOPLE themselves ultimately provide, or withhold, the consent of the governed upon which this countries form of government depends for its legitimacy. The Sword and Sovereignty derives the basic legal and practical principles of the Militia from a detailed study of the pre-constitutional Militia statutes of Rhode Island and Virginia selected, for reasons the book makes clear, as exemplars of what happened throughout America in that era. It explains how these principles are embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and how they should be applied in the operation of Americas true federal system of government-indeed, why it is Congress and every States duty to see to the organization of, and every Americans personal duty to participate in, the Militia, more imperatively now than ever before. It exposes the dangerous fallacy in the contemporary individual-rights misinterpretation of the Second Amendment, and explains how the Supreme Courts Heller decision reduced Americans right * * * to keep and bear Arms to a level far below what their forebears enjoyed when the Constitution and Bill of Rights were ratified. And it examines ways in which revitalized Militia of the several States could, should, and if they were properly revitalized would deal with many of the most pressing contemporary problems this country faces-such as the correction of rogue public officials the supervision of the military-industrial complex the conduct of honest elections the provision of an alternative currency, etc.

 OLDDOGS COMMENTS

Considering the thousands of pages of text I have read in my bewildering attempt to find a way back to Constitutional governance, this article is without doubt America’s last hurrah. May I humbly suggest that all who read this buy a Copy of The Sword and Sovereignty, by Edwin Vieira, Jr., and commit to studying it until you can intelligently converse with your local Sheriff and convince him to study the system of militia therein proposed. I confess this is not an easy venture as I have the disc and have spent many an hour studying until my mind was afire with patriotic fever. All this book needs is a few intelligent sheriffs to go through this process of learning and I really believe we would have a chance to reconstruct a legitimate militia. You can bet your last dollar that until you gain the ability to debate proactively there will be people who fly off the handle and spout off loyalty gibberish that proves their ignorance of America’s real problem; which is “it takes more brains than balls to be a leader.” Hopefully our Sheriffs qualify.

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800 YEARS AFTER THE MAGNA CARTA, THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD DEMAND JUSTICE  www.ITNJCommittee.org

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The International Tribunal for Natural Justice is scheduled to hold its inaugural ceremonial seating on June 15, 2015, near Runnymede, England, to coincide with the 800th anniversary of the signing of theMagna Carta.  Once again on that date and in that place, the People in and of the World will demand justice.  The founders of the ITNJ have timed this event to make a powerful statement, and to maximise advantage of the press on hand for nearby Magna Carta celebrations.  Two days of speakers leading up to the Ceremonial Inaugural Seating of the Tribunal will be broadcast around the world via secure live-stream connection.  The theme for June 13 will be Stepping Out Of the Old Paradigm.  The theme for June 14 will be Stepping Into the New Paradigm.  And the inaugural ceremonial proceedings of the International Tribunal for Natural Justice will be held near the place of the signing of the Magna Carta, 800 years to the day.

CATASTROPHIC NATIONAL DISASTER IMMINENT? Why Has the United Nations Purchased Most National Parks and Targeting Major Cities in the USA? The Truth Will Stun You! (VIDEOS & PHOTOS

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BY TRUTHER

Over the years, the United Nations has gradually purchased most of our precious National parks in the United States of America, and now they are working on buying all major U.S. cities. But why? What is the bigger picture? What is coming to America?

 As the Obama ‘Regime’ childishly uses our National Parks and Monuments as weapons against it’s own veterans, citizens, and especially to threaten the Tea Party, and it’s values (The Constitution),  few people are aware of the fact that we the people, United States citizens, do not control our own treasured landmarks. The United Nations (of which most member countries are our enemies) now controls most of our U.S. National Parks and Monuments including Yellowstone, the Everglades, the Washington Monument, the Statue of Liberty, Thomas Jefferson’s home at Monticello, the Brooklyn Bridge, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon – to name just a few….while U.S. taxpayers still foot the bill.

Jon Doughtery of WND said, “…if most Americans “knew what was going on (with their national parks), the uproar would be deafening. ”Dougherty explains , “…(the U.N.) attempts to “globalize” huge portions of the United States — with taxpayers picking up the tab. ”Agenda 21 is a United Nations document that was signed by Clinton and Bush that will allow the implementation of a one world government by gradually separating American citizens from their private property and “redistributing the wealth” globally. Globalists like Obama, Hilary, international bankers and George Soros are using many means to accomplish this including the implosion of the U.S. economy, the destruction of the U.S. family unit, and the ‘fake science’ of man-caused (anthropomorphic) global-warming/climate change’ endorsed (knowingly and unknowingly) by the environmentalist (earth worship) movement.

“It is a well-documented fact that the U.N. is trying to gain control over vast amounts of U.S. territories to herd more people into cities where they are more manageable,” says Henry Lamb of Eco-Logic — a watchdog organization that monitors U.N. activities and U.S. sovereignty issues.  —Victoria Jackson.com

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

Please note: in the video, I mistakenly said “state parks”. I can’t get into my youtube to make a notation at this time. CORRECTION: It is NOT state parks; it is NATIONAL parks. Thank you!

*Note: I have supplied links and quotes from ‘some’ older articles as a means of showing you evidence in regards to the subject matter of this news post. Thank you.

In early February (2008), nine U.S. States began the process of re-asserting their sovereignty pursuant to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the US Constitution; declaring null and void any actions by Congress that violated the Constitution. The states took action to make certain the feds couldn’t give away cities or the states themselves! This situation is going to get VERY ugly, VERY fast as one sovereign power (the feds) try to literally give away the land of other sovereign powers, (the states). This is the type of thing that starts Civil War. Our present federal government makes the treachery and betrayal of Benedict Arnold look like child’s play!  —Rense.com

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Watch the above documentary on the globalist agenda—One World Government. (Read “When The World Will Be As One” by Tal Brooke).

More On State Parks, Illuminati

More On State Parks VS UN

And, the NWO’s choice buyer? You guessed it—China!

According to Rense News, US Gives China Eminent Domain Over US Property, Beyond High Treason:

The written agreement was brought to Beijing by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and was formalized and agreed-to during her recent trip to China.This means that in the event the US Government defaults on its financial obligations to China, the Communist Government of China would be permitted to physically take — inside the USA — land, buildings, factories, perhaps even entire cities – to satisfy the financial obligations of the US government.

Put simply, the feds have now actually mortgaged the physical land and property of all citizens and businesses in the United States. They have given to a foreign power, their Constitutional power to “take” all of our property, as actual collateral for continued Chinese funding of US deficit spending and the continued carrying of US national debt.

And, even more! See here, Investing News:

Chinese investors are buying up Detroit—Real estate buyers are snapping up dozens of properties, often sight unseen. Where else can you buy a 2-story home in the US for $39?

Detroit, broke with almost no prospects for recovery, is the fourth most popular U.S. destination for Chinese real estate investors. And it was bad news — the city’s July 18 bankruptcy filing — that triggered renewed interest. “While the bankruptcy is viewed as a bad thing elsewhere, it raised the exposure level of Detroit’s real estate market in China,” says Evonne Xu, a Michigan attorney catering to Chinese purchasers. Middle Kingdom, meet Motown.

Chinese shoppers can’t resist a bargain. Where else can you buy a two-story home in the U.S. for $39? China Central Television, the state broadcaster, in March reported that two houses in Detroit cost the same as a pair of leather shoes. No wonder a poster on Sina Weibo, the Twitter-like service, pitched, “Seven-hundred thousand people, quiet, clean air, no pollution, democracy — what are you waiting for?”

Yet, another in the American Dream News Source:

China Wants To Construct A 50 Square Mile Self-Sustaining City South of Boise, Idaho

Thanks to the trillions of dollars that the Chinese have made flooding our shores with cheap products, China is now in a position of tremendous economic power.  So what is China going to do with all of that money?  One thing that they have decided to do is to buy up pieces of the United States and set up “special economic zones” inside our country from which they can continue to extend their economic domination.  One of these “special economic zones” would be just south of Boise, Idaho and the Idaho government is eager to give it to them.

China National Machinery Industry Corporation (Sinomach for short) plans to construct a “technology zone” south of Boise Airport which would ultimately be up to 50 square miles in size.  The Chinese Communist Party is the majority owner of Sinomach, so the 10,000 to 30,000 acre “self-sustaining city” that is being planned would essentially belong to the Chinese government. The planned “self-sustaining city” in Idaho would include manufacturing facilities, warehouses, retail centers and large numbers of homes for Chinese workers.  Basically it would be a slice of communist China dropped right into the middle of the United States.

Still don’t believe it? Here, I will show you one more! This one is from The Economic Collapse News:

Will Toledo, Ohio Be The First Major American City To Be Owned By China?

It has been said that there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation.  One way is by using the sword, and the other is by using debt.  Fortunately, America is not in danger of being conquered by the sword right now, but America is being conquered by debt.  The borrower is the servant of the lender, and today we owe China more than a trillion dollars.  By running a gigantic trade deficit with us, China has been able to become incredibly wealthy.

We have begged them to lend us back some of the money that we have sent them and this has made them even wealthier.  Now China is gobbling up U.S. real estate and U.S. assets at an astounding pace.  In fact, some cities are in danger of becoming completely dominated by Chinese ownership.  One of those cities is Toledo, Ohio.  In many “rust belt” areas, real estate can be had for a song, and the Chinese are taking full advantage of this.  America was once the wealthiest nation on earth, but now we are drowning in debt and we are being sold off in chunks to the highest bidder.  Is this the legacy that we are going to leave for future generations?  

 Intentionally done in order to bring about new currency!

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Do you remember cities going bankrupt back at the end of 2012? Here’s a news clip:

The United Nations (NWO/Illuminati) wants to possess everything because it gives them more control. What they are doing is setting up the kingdom on earth for end time events in which the antichrist, their god, will come and rule the world. In order for them to have absolute authority and complete control, they must conquer and own every single city, park, business, government agency, etc. there is. So, when Martial Law goes into effect and chaos grips the hearts of every man, woman, and child—they will quickly and effectively be able to squeeze the life out of anyone, and everyone, who does not conform.

And forget about hiding—there won’t be one place left that is untouched by their wicked talons!

The recent water crisis in FEMA Region Three is no more than a drill in order to test and dumb down society to their antics. Much worse is coming, but then at that moment, people will be weary and numbed to all of it. But you see? This is all part of their plan! No one will be prepared when the real alarm is sounded, and there will be every type of chaos imaginable…. Tada! Here comes the NWO one world government, led by none other than, the Antichrist.

Perfect plan, if I do say so myself.

I urge everyone who is reading this to begin making preparations. I could be wrong, but I predict between April and July, something HUGE is going to happen. My instincts tell me it will be the economic collapse.

I want you to pay close attention to the news. The moment you hear anything…and I mean anything…about banks closing down to upgrade the system, or for whatever reason…get your money out immediately!

Be sure to have a place to go “away” from the city, plenty of water, food, and medical provisions, including a solar powered generator. If you have been putting it off, research survival and find out exactly what you need to know. People get crazy during times of crisis. Survival mode kicks in, and many will be willing to kill for food and water!

Friends (and enemies)—you have a choice. You can choose to do nothing and sit by so that when the day comes, it will overtake you and you will not know what to do.  Or, you can begin making preparations now, so that when it hits the fan, you will be ahead of the game and ready to roll. Get my drift? I can only tell you once again…and pay attention…because I may have ways of knowing certain things that I can’t reveal; VERY SOON!

Miscellaneous Facts About National Parks and the U.N.

Fact: The Clinton administration implemented United Nations treaties without congressional or voter approval. Already 68% of our national parks and preserves are under U.N. administration.

Fact: U.N. committees are empowered to visit “World Heritage Sites” within the U.S. to judge whether human activity poses an environmental risk and if it need to be curtailed.

Fact: The Clinton administration transferred tens of millions of acres of land to the federal government to be placed under U.N. control.

Fact: Towns in the Cuyahoga River Valley near Akron, Ohio, have lost much of their population as the National Park Service under U.N. provisions, has condemned and torn down homes, farms, forcing people to leave their land.

Fact: The U.N. Biodiversity Treaty supports the Wildlands Project, which calls for turning 50% of the U.S. into “wildlands” where humans would not be allowed, but animals could roam free. Concerned Women for America

And, a final tid-bit regarding UN/China buying out American cities:

Dot #12 Barack Hussein Obama was elected, promising “Change you can believe in.” After taking office in January, Obama sends Hillary Clinton on a critical mission to China and helps write H.R. 45 — a complete grab of America’s guns ala Adolph Hitler. State leaders who understand what Clinton and Obama agenda with China is about, are seeking legal “Sovereignty” to prevent the loss of property to a foreign power.  —Rense.com

There it is. All the news and facts laid out for you. I could add plenty more, but this article is already long enough. The decision is yours to make. To be, or not to be? That is the question! What will be your answer?

OLDDOGS COMMENTS

For most of my life I was the same as most of you reading this article, as I knew instinctively there was nothing I could do to make my representatives honest. The big difference between then and now is, I now know how this transfer occurred. America is not, and never has been a free republic and they know you will never believe it. They know you will sit on your ass and let them rob and kill you because you are so convinced everything will be alright in the end. They are masters of deceit, and totally without conscience, or morals. The International Banking Cartel owns you and all you think is yours, and when they have bled you dry they will murder you without a second thought. There will only be servants and masters in the near future, and your only choice is to be a slave or die fighting like a man. Personally I don’t give a damn because I have lived long enough to be completely disgusted with homo-sapiens. They don’t have the good sense to come in out of the rain, the courage to defend themselves, or the intelligence to recognize their enemies. GOOD LUCK SUCKERS!

Turning America into a Battlefield A Blueprint for Locking Down the Nation

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By John W. Whitehead
April 27, 2015

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.—President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961

A standing army—something that propelled the early colonists into revolution—strips the American people of any vestige of freedom. How can there be any semblance of freedom when there are tanks in the streets, military encampments in cities, Blackhawk helicopters and armed drones patrolling overhead?

It was for this reason that those who established America vested control of the military in a civilian government, with a civilian commander-in-chief. They did not want a military government, ruled by force. Rather, they opted for a republic bound by the rule of law: the U.S. Constitution.

Unfortunately, with the Constitution under constant attack, the military’s power, influence and authority have grown dramatically. Even the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which makes it a crime for the government to use the military to carry out arrests, searches, seizure of evidence and other activities normally handled by a civilian police force, has been weakened by both Barack Obama and George W. Bush, who ushered in exemptions allowing troops to deploy domestically and arrest civilians in the wake of alleged terrorist acts.

Now we find ourselves struggling to retain some semblance of freedom in the face of police and law enforcement agencies that look and act like the military and have just as little regard for the Fourth Amendment, laws such as the NDAA that allow the military to arrest and indefinitely detain American citizens, and military drills that acclimate the American people to the sight of armored tanks in the streets, military encampments in cities, and combat aircraft patrolling overhead.

Making matters worse, we find out that the military plans to use southwestern states as staging grounds for guerilla warfare drills in which highly-trained military troops equipped with all manner of weapons turn American towns and cities in quasi-battlefields. Why? As they tell us, it’s so that special operations forces can get “realistic military training” in “hostile” territory.

They’ve even got a name for the exercise: Jade Helm 15.

Whether or not Americans have anything to fear from Jade Helm 15, a covert, multi-agency, multi-state, eight-week military training exercise set to take place this summer from July 15 through Sept. 15, remains to be seen.

Insisting that there’s nothing to be alarmed about, the Washington Post took great pains to point out that these military exercises on American soil are nothing new. For instance, there was Operation Bold Alligator, in which in which thousands of Marines and sailors carried out amphibious exercises against “insurgent” forces in Georgia and Florida. Operation Robin Sage had Green Beret soldiers engaging in guerrilla warfare in North Carolina. And Operation Derna Bridge sends Marine special forces into parts of South Carolina and the National Forest.

Yet if Americans are uneasy about this summer’s planned Jade Helm 15 military exercises, they have every right to be.

After all, haven’t we been urged time and time again to just “trust” the government to respect our rights and abide by the rule of law only to find that, in fact, our rights were being plundered and the Constitution disregarded at every turn?

Let’s assume, for the moment, that Jade Helm 15 is not a thinly veiled military plot to take over the country lifted straight out of director John Frankenheimer’s 1964 political thriller Seven Days in May, as some fear, but is merely a “routine” exercise for troops, albeit a blatantly intimidating flexing of the military’s muscles.

The problem arises when you start to add Jade Helm onto the list of other troubling developments that have taken place over the past 30 years or more: the expansion of the military industrial complex and its influence in Washington DC, the rampant surveillance, the corporate-funded elections and revolving door between lobbyists and elected officials, the militarized police, the loss of our freedoms, the injustice of the courts, the privatized prisons, the school lockdowns, the roadside strip searches, the military drills on domestic soil, the fusion centers and the simultaneous fusing of every branch of law enforcement (federal, state and local), the stockpiling of ammunition by various government agencies, the active shooter drills that are indistinguishable from actual crises, the economy flirting with near collapse, etc.

Suddenly, the overall picture seems that much more sinister. Clearly, as I point out in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, there’s a larger agenda at work here.

Seven years ago, the U.S. Army War College issued a report calling on the military to be prepared should they need to put down civil unrest within the country. Summarizing the report, investigative journalist Chris Hedges declared, “The military must be prepared, the document warned, for a ‘violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States,’ which could be provoked by ‘unforeseen economic collapse,’ ‘purposeful domestic resistance,’ ‘pervasive public health emergencies’ or ‘loss of functioning political and legal order.’ The ‘widespread civil violence,’ the document said, ‘would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.’”

At what point will all of the government’s carefully drawn plans for dealing with civil unrest, “homegrown” terrorism and targeting pre-crime become a unified blueprint for locking down the nation?

For instance, what’s the rationale behind turning government agencies into military outposts? There has been a notable buildup in recent years of SWAT teams within non-security-related federal agencies such as Department of Agriculture, the Railroad Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Education Department. As of 2008, “73 federal law enforcement agencies… [employ] approximately 120,000 armed full-time on-duty officers with arrest authority.” Four-fifths of those officers are under the command of either the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or the Department of Justice.

What’s with all of the government agencies stockpiling hollow point bullets? For example, why does the Department of Agriculture need .40 caliber semiautomatic submachine guns and 320,000 rounds of hollow point bullets? For that matter, why do its agents need ballistic vests and body armor?

Why does the Postal Service need “assorted small arms ammunition”? Why did the DHS purchase “1.6 billion rounds of hollow-point ammunition, along with 7,000 fully-automatic 5.56x45mm NATO ‘personal defense weapons’ plus a huge stash of 30-round high-capacity magazines”? That’s in addition to the FBI’s request for 100 million hollow-point rounds. The Department of Education, IRS, the Social Security Administration, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees the National Weather Service, are also among the federal agencies which have taken to purchasing ammunition and weaponry in bulk.

Why is the federal government distributing obscene amounts of military equipment, weapons and ammunition to police departments around the country? And why is DHS acquiring more than 2,500 Mine-Resistant Armored Protection (MRAP) vehicles, only to pass them around to local police departments across the country? According to the New York Times:

[A]s President Obama ushers in the end of what he called America’s “long season of war,” the former tools of combat — M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more — are ending up in local police departments, often with little public notice. During the Obama administration, according to Pentagon data, police departments have received tens of thousands of machine guns; nearly 200,000 ammunition magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night-vision equipment; and hundreds of silencers, armored cars and aircraft. The equipment has been added to the armories of police departments that already look and act like military units.

Why is the military partnering with local police to conduct training drills around the country? And what exactly are they training for? In Richland, South Carolina, for instance, U.S. army special forces participated in joint and secretive exercises and training with local deputies. The public was disallowed from obtaining any information about the purpose of the drills, other than being told that they might be loud and to not be alarmed. The Army and DHS also carried out similar drills and maneuvers involving Black Hawk helicopters in Texas, Florida, and other locations throughout the U.S., ostensibly in order to provide local police with “realistic” urban training.

What is being done to protect the American populace from the threat of military arms and forces, including unarmed drones, being used against them? Policy analysts point to Directive No. 3025.18, “Defense Support of Civil Authorities” (issued on Dec. 29, 2010), as justification for the government’s use of military force to put down civil unrest within the United States.

Why is FEMA stockpiling massive quantities of emergency supplies? On January 10, 2014, FEMA made a statement enlisting the service of contractors who could “supply medical biohazard disposal capabilities and 40 yard dumpsters to 1,000 tent hospitals across the United States; all required on 24-48 hour notice.” This coincides with other medical requests seeking massive amounts of supplies, such as “31,000,000 flu vaccinations,” “100,000 each of winter shirts and pants and the same for summer” and other goods and services requests as well like tarps, manufactured housing units, and beverages. And why does the TSA need $21,000 worth of potassium chlorate, a chemical compound often used in explosives?

Why is the Pentagon continuing to purchase mass amounts of ammunition while at the same time preparing to destroy more than $1 billion worth of bullets and missiles that are still viable?

Moreover, what is really being done to hold the Pentagon accountable for its doctored ledgers, fraud, waste and mismanagement, which has cost the taxpayer trillions of dollars? According to Reuters, “The Pentagon is the only federal agency that has not complied with a law that requires annual audits of all government departments. That means that the $8.5 trillion in taxpayer money doled out by Congress to the Pentagon since 1996, the first year it was supposed to be audited, has never been accounted for. That sum exceeds the value of China’s economic output.”

Given the similarities between the government’s Live Active Shooter Drill training exercises, carried out at schools, in shopping malls, and on public transit, which can and do fool law enforcement officials, students, teachers and bystanders into thinking it’s a real crisis, how much of what is being passed off as real is, in fact, being staged by DHS for the “benefit” of training law enforcement, leaving us none the wiser? These training exercises come complete with their own set of professionally trained Crisis Actors playing the parts of shooters, bystanders and victims in order to help schools and first responders create realistic drills, full-scale exercises, high-fidelity simulations, and interactive 3D films.

Given that Americans are 110 times more likely to die of foodborne illness than in a terrorist attack, why is the government spending trillions of dollars on “national security”? How exactly is the $75 billion given to various intelligence agencies annually to keep us “safe” being spent? And why is the DHS giving away millions of dollars’ worth of federal security grants to states that federal intelligence agencies ruled have “no specific foreign or domestic terrorism threat”?

Why is the government amassing names and information on Americans considered to be threats to the nation, and what criteria is the government using for this database? Keep in mind that this personal information is being acquired and kept without warrant or court order. It’s been suggested that in the event of nuclear war, the destruction of the U.S. Government, and the declaration of martial law, this Main Core database, which as of 2008 contained some 8 million names of Americans, would be used by military officials to locate and round up Americans seen as threats to national security, a program to be carried about by the Army and FEMA.

Taken individually, these questions are alarming enough. But put them together and they add up to the kind of trouble that the American founding fathers not only warned against but from which they fought to free themselves.

Indeed, when viewed collectively, they leave one wondering what exactly the U.S. government is preparing for and whether American citizens shouldn’t be preparing, as well, for that eventuality when our so-called “government of the people, by the people, for the people” is no longer answerable to “we the people.”

 

What Would Happen If Martial Law Was Declared In America?

http://www.pakalertpress.com/what-would-happen-if-martial-law-was-declared-in-america/

By Michael Snyder

In recent weeks, there has been a lot of concern that an upcoming eight week military exercise on U.S. soil known as “Jade Helm” is actually a dress rehearsal for the imposition of martial law in this country.

One of the reasons for the high level of concern is that we have seen a dramatic increase in the number of “urban warfare exercises” conducted by the U.S. military in major U.S. cities over the past decade – including exercises where “dissidents” are hunted down, arrested and hauled away.

As our world becomes increasingly unstable, and as our society rapidly decays from within, many believe that it is only a matter of time before the executive branch will have sufficient excuse to use the extensive martial law powers that it has been accumulating since 9/11.  When that day arrives, what will our nation look like?  What would actually happen if martial law was declared in America?

Well, the first thing that you need to know is that the U.S. Constitution would be “suspended”.

In other words, you would suddenly have no rights at all.

There would be no freedom of speech, no freedom of the press, no freedom of assembly and you could be arrested at any time for any reason whatsoever.

For the duration of the “emergency”, the military would be in control.  There would be troops in the streets, a curfew would almost certainly be imposed, and armed checkpoints would be set up.

If the “emergency” lasted long enough, we would probably see authorities go house to house confiscating firearms, ammunition and food supplies.

And perhaps most troubling of all, “dissidents” and “subversives” would likely be rounded up and imprisoned.

Perhaps you don’t think that this could ever happen in the United States in 2015.

Well, we do know that this is precisely what the FBI had a plan to do in the 1950s.  The following is an excerpt from a recent RT article…

Documents show the FBI created a “Plan C” during the Cold War, which could have been triggered in the event the US underwent a nuclear attack. It included putting the nation under martial law, rounding up “subversives,” and interning enemy diplomats.

The documents, acquired by transparency journalism organization MuckRock, detail the FBI plan created in 1956, which was shared with several top officials from every governmental department. The FBI also distributed papers regarding the plan to its field offices. The plan would have gone into effect “after a war has begun in which the US is involved or may become involved and prior to an actual attack on the US itself,” according to the documents.

Under Plan C, martial law would be declared and the FBI would enact its ‘Emergency Detention Program,’ which entailed apprehending individuals whose affiliations with subversive organizations “are so pronounced that their continued liberty in the event of a national emergency would present a serious threat to the internal security of the country.” The document shows that as of April 1956, almost 13,000 people “were scheduled for apprehension in an emergency.”

Very sobering.

And we do know that the federal government had a list of at least 8 million names of people that were considered to be “threats to national security” back in the 1980s.  This list was known as Main Core, and it is not known whether this list still exists today.

I have a feeling that it does, and that it is probably much larger than it was back then.

We also know that government documents produced during the Obama administration openly discuss rounding up “dissidents” and taking them to internment camps.  Just consider the following example from Infowars…

A leaked 2012 US Army Military Police training manual, entitled “Civil Disturbance Operations,” described how soldiers would be ordered to confiscate firearms and kill American “dissidents.” The manual also revealed that prisoners would be detained in temporary internment camps and “re-educated” to gain a new appreciation of “U.S. policies,” in accordance with U.S. Army FM 3-19.40 Internment/Resettlement Operations.

So who would those “dissidents” be exactly?

In “72 Types Of Americans That Are Considered ‘Potential Terrorists’ In Official Government Documents“, I detailed how official U.S. government documents specifically identify those that believe in “conspiracy theories” as possible threats.  Others that the government is concerned about include those opposed to abortion, globalism, communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations and “the New World Order”.

I wish that none of this was true.  Go check out the article for yourself.

Another very disturbing government document talks about the need for the U.S. Army to prepare to battle political dissidents in “megacities” and to neutralize groups “who can influence the lives of the population while undermining the authority of the state”.  Here is more from Infowars…

The U.S. Army is preparing to fight political dissidents who challenge the power of the state as “megacities” become the battleground of the future, according to a new report in the Army Times.

The article details how the Army’s Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC) worked with US Army Special Operations Command, the chief of staff’s Strategic Studies Group and the UK’s Ministry of Defence earlier this year to wargame the future of armed combat, which will revolve around the neutralization of groups “who can influence the lives of the population while undermining the authority of the state,” a chillingly vague description which could easily be applied to political dissidents.

The plan foresees an unprecedented realignment of U.S. military strategy focused around putting “boots on the ground” in megacities to deal with “politically dispossessed” populations while relying on “more lethal and more autonomous” methods.

Very alarming stuff.

And if we did see martial law declared nationwide, it is likely that all elections would be suspended indefinitely.

That could also potentially include the 2016 presidential election.

Is it possible that Barack Obama could use his emergency powers to stay in the White House beyond his second term?  There are some out there that believe that this could actually happen under the right circumstances.  For example, check out what Dr. Ben Carson said during an appearance on the Alan Colmes radio show…

COLMES: What do you mean though when you say there may not be an election in 2016?

BEN CARSON: There may be so much anarchy going on.

COLMES: Anarchy? So you really think we risk risking an anarchic America to the point where elections might be put on hold, or some kind of emergency is declared with such anarchy that there wouldn’t be a Presidential election in a couple of years?

BEN CARSON: I don’t want to find out. I really don’t want to find out, I don’t want to continue down this pathway that we’re going down.

And the groundwork has certainly been laid for such a scenario.

During his time in the White House, Barack Obama has signed a series of executive orders that give him and his minions an extraordinary amount of power in the event of a major national emergency.

For example, read the following excerpt from an executive order that Obama signed in March 2012…

Sec. 201.  Priorities and Allocations Authorities.  (a)  The authority of the President conferred by section 101 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2071, to require acceptance and priority performance of contracts or orders (other than contracts of employment) to promote the national defense over performance of any other contracts or orders, and to allocate materials, services, and facilities as deemed necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense, is delegated to the following agency heads:

(1)  the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to food resources, food resource facilities, livestock resources, veterinary resources, plant health resources, and the domestic distribution of farm equipment and commercial fertilizer;

(2)  the Secretary of Energy with respect to all forms of energy;

(3)  the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to health resources;

(4)  the Secretary of Transportation with respect to all forms of civil transportation;

(5)  the Secretary of Defense with respect to water resources; and

(6)  the Secretary of Commerce with respect to all other materials, services, and facilities, including construction materials.

That sounds like it covers just about everything.

Basically, during a time of martial law all of the things that you take for granted today would be out the window.

You would have no rights, and the federal government would be able to do just about anything that it wanted to do.

If that sounds really bad to you, then maybe now you are starting to understand why so many people get upset when they see preparations being made for the eventual imposition of martial law in this country.

 

 

Death from Above the New Manhattan Project Chemtrail Fleet

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/04/death-from-above-new-manhattan-project.html#more

By Peter A. Kirby

Today’s chemtrail spraying operations necessarily require a massive fleet of specialized jumbo jet airliners operating covertly.  The volume and frequency of chemtrail reports from all over the world, the author’s own observations and the massive task of controlling Earth’s weather in the fashion of the New Manhattan Project suggest that these planes number over 1000.  If you do not know what the New Manhattan Project is, please see the author’s previous article “A History of the New Manhattan Project.”

These planes must necessarily be of a certain breed.  Any old plane rigged up with some spraying equipment or even with spiked jet fuel simply will not do.  For example, a commercial passenger airliner following a predetermined route is not an effective chemtrail spraying plane.  The chemtrail spray needs to be emitted at specific locations at a moment’s notice.  The super high-tech nature and payload requirements of the New Manhattan Project also demand specialization.  The fuselage of an effective chemtrail spraying aircraft needs to be loaded up not with passengers and luggage, but with chemtrail spray, spraying equipment, communications gear, computers and atmospheric monitoring equipment.  An effective chemtrail spraying plane is a dedicated chemtrail spraying plane.

Not only does the New Manhattan Project require over 1000 dedicated airplanes, the project requires that these airplanes operate covertly.  Even though there is a mountain of evidence proving the existence of this Project, our federal Government refuses to admit the obvious.  Just like the original Manhattan Project was, this project is still officially a big secret.  Only this time, it’s going on in the sky above us.

As we are interested in exposing chemtrails, we are interested in the origins, development and current state of this large, covert, high-tech jumbo jet air force routinely contaminating our environment and damaging our health.  Oddly enough, when one looks back in history for large fleets of covertly operating American aircraft, one finds plenty.  It all began in 1940s’ China.

The Flying Tigers

Many of us have heard of or seen the 1942 war epic starring John Wayne called Flying Tigers.  It is a finely crafted propaganda piece based on the real Flying Tigers.

The real Flying Tigers were an officially sanctioned mercenary air force consisting of former U.S. military personnel fighting for Chiang Kai-shek’s Chinese military against imperial Japan in 1941 and 1942.  Although they did not operate beyond the purview of your average American (in fact, the press coverage was quite impressive), the Flying Tigers were the beginnings of what probably became today’s top secret New Manhattan Project chemtrail fleet.

The Flying Tigers were co-founded by a man named Claire Chennault (1893-1958) and another by the name of William D. Pawley (1896-1977). Chennault was the military aviation commander and Pawley was the adventurous entrepreneur. Although much has been made about the charismatic Commander Chennault, who is played by John Wayne in the film, the man most responsible for the assembly of this mercenary air force operating in the wilds of central China in the early 1940s was William D. Pawley.

Mr. Pawley set up a company called the Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company (CAMCO) which supplied Curtiss-Wright aircraft to the Flying Tigers.  Pawley’s operations in China were supported by Chiang Kai-shek’s Chinese government and an ad hoc political lobby in Washington D.C. doing business through a firm called the Universal Trading Corporation.  Although the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was not in existence in 1941 and 1942, Mr. Pawley had later connections to the CIA and specifically Allen Dulles.  As we are about to see, the CIA has an extensive history of owning and operating huge fleets of aircraft operating domestically and internationally.

William Pawley is a very intriguing character.  Some of you out there know of him already.  His most recent biographer, Anthony Carrozza writes that he was, “…a cross between Indiana Jones and Donald Trump.”  In the light of Carrozza’s 2012 book, Professor Peter Dale Scott wrote an interesting piece about Pawley titled “William Pawley, the Kennedy Assassination, and Watergate.”

Civil Air Transport

In 1942, the Flying Tigers were disbanded and integrated into the U.S. Army Air Force when the United States armed forces officially entered the ongoing China/Japan conflict in support of Chiang Kai-shek’s China.  After the dropping of the atomic bombs and the subsequent Japanese surrender in 1945, the U.S. military pulled out.  Commander Chennault stayed and the aforementioned ad hoc lobby in Washington D.C. formed something called Civil Air Transport (CAT).  This new airline was funded through something called the American Airdale Corporation.  The ad hoc lobby responsible for CAT consisted of men such as: Whitey Willauer, Bill Youngman, Lauchlin Currie, Joseph Alsop, Quinn Shaughnessy, and brothers David and Thomas Corcoran.

Let us reference a passage from Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and his American Volunteers by the leading historian on the Flying Tigers, Daniel Ford.  Mr. Ford writes, “After the war, Chennault continued in the service of the Chiangs, organizing Civil Air Transport with Whitey Willauer and others of the AVG ‘Washington Squadron.’  CAT started with mercy flights and evolved into a paramilitary force during the civil war that ended with Chiang Kai-shek’s ouster by the Communists in 1949.”

Christopher Robbins describes the founding of Civil Air Transport this way:

Chennault returned to China to found an airline in which he undertook to move the desperately needed relief supplies that had been sent out by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration – UNRRA – but which were accumulating on docksides and in warehouses along the coast instead of being delivered to the interior.  In return for flying supplies into the country, the airline was given permission to fly commercial goods out.

Civil Air Transport has been linked to drug dealing.  The book Prelude to Terror: the Rogue CIA and the Legacy of America’s Private Intelligence Network by Joseph J. Trento describes how CAT ferried drugs from the Golden Triangle in Asia.  There is plenty of other evidence.

Believe it or not, CAT performed weather modification operations.  This is the author’s thesis.  Christopher Robbins (who is introduced in the next section) writes,

…during a severe drought in Japan, CAT was chartered to carry a group of rainmakers over Osaka in an effort to sow the clouds with silver iodide.  A fine sprinkle of rain fell over the countryside as a result, but the skeptical farmers were more inclined to credit nature than CAT for the phenomenon.  On the next trip, the pilot took the precaution of mixing a little emerald-colored dye with the other chemicals.  Startled Japanese were treated to a chlorophyll cloudburst and CAT collected wherever it rained green.

After the death of Lieutenant General Chennault in 1958, Civil Air Transport turned into the CIA’s Air America.  Let us again reference a passage from Flying Tigers.  Daniel Ford writes,

With the Old Man [Chennault] gone, his airline was reorganized as Air America under the control of the Central Intelligence Agency.  Its grey planes, civil and military, with no national markings, carried out CIA missions all during the Vietnam War.  Thus the covert air action proposed by Chennault in 1940 finally became an accepted instrument of American foreign policy.

Air America and the Pacific Corporation

Have you heard of the 1990 box office bomb called Air America?  It is a terrible movie starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr..  Don’t watch Air America the movie.  It will reveal to you nothing and serves as a distraction.  It is only mentioned here because the term ‘Air America’ will be recognized by many in this context.

The real Air America was a covert, CIA owned and operated airline that transported anything, anywhere, anytime during the Vietnam, Korean and Indo-China wars of the late 1940s through to the early 1970s.  Their pilots were mostly former U.S. military.  An excellent book on the subject has been written.  Air America the book by Christopher Robbins is a monumental work of research and understanding.  If not the best, it is one of the greatest exposés of our time.  Thank you, Mr. Robbins.  Air America mostly flew supplies to friendly (read mercenary) regional armies.  Some of these armies, such as those in Laos were funded by the CIA.  The CIA has conducted similar operations all over the world.

Air America the book reveals that Air America was only one of many airlines owned and operated by the CIA during this period.  Other CIA airlines such as Intermountain Airlines, Air Asia, Southern Air Transport, the aforementioned Civil Air Transport and others operated in China, Korea and/or southeast Asia at this time as well and were all organized under something called the Pacific Corporation. The Pacific Corporation was formerly the aforementioned American Airdale Corporation. The Pacific Corporation ran airlines that collectively were larger than any other single airline in the world.  In the 1960s and ’70s, the operation was worth hundreds of millions of dollars.  The now defunct Pacific Corporation was a CIA front company founded and run by a man by the name of George A. Doole Jr. (1910-1985).

Christopher Robbins writes, “The CIA air proprietary’s came about as a direct result of the creation of the Agency’s Directorate for Plans, or Clandestine Service – dubbed the Department of Dirty Tricks – which pursued programs of covert action.”  Their record reflects this.

There is an abundance of evidence supporting the assertion that pilots of the airlines organized under the Pacific Corporation smuggled everything from currency to drugs to precious metals to human beings.  Of these different contraband, opium was the most prevalent.

At least one has experienced an Air America that leaves any reasonable individual with a lot of questions.  The following passage is from an Asian language magazine quoting a former Air America stewardess as recounted by Christopher Robbins, “Before this, I flew with Air America, but that was different, very different.  Once, I went to work and had to fly on a plane full of dead bodies . . . better not say anything about that.”

In 1974, all the airlines of the Pacific Corporation were disbanded due to federal legislation passed as a result of congressional hearings conducted by Idaho Senator Frank Church.

Evergreen

One of the airlines formerly under the Pacific Corporation was Intermountain Aviation.  In 1975, Evergreen bought Intermountain Aviation.  Evergreen’s president and founder Delford Smith (1930-2014) got a sweetheart deal.  Intermountain’s 12 aircraft were repainted in the colors of Evergreen International Aviation, Incorporated.  The Intermountain Marana base at Pinal Air Park in Marana, Arizona became the Evergreen Air Center and the company’s headquarters.  Most Intermountain employees and executives stayed on to become Evergreen employees and executives.

Evergreen’s accounting firm Arthur Andersen reported that assets almost doubled from the Intermountain acquisition.  Even though the Oregonian reports that the Intermountain acquisition cost Evergreen less than three million dollars, assets went from a reported $25 million in 1975 to a reported $45.5 million in 1976.  The Oregonian newspaper did a series of investigative reports on Evergreen and all their shady connections back in 1988.

Evergreen’s accounting firm Arthur Andersen was the accounting firm that went under due to their role in covering for the thoroughly disgraced Enron Corporation.  The Enron Corporation was the founder of the weather derivatives market which may have been created to make money from temperature fluctuations caused by the New Manhattan Project.  For more, see the author’s previous article “Geoengineering for Financial Gain: A History of Weather Derivatives.”

Christopher Robbins writes that shortly after the Intermountain acquisition, “The company [Evergreen] expanded rapidly to own almost 100 aircraft operating on four continents.”  In 1979, the company headquarters were moved to Newberg, Oregon and then in 1981, moved again to McMinnville, Oregon.

Delford Smith was a master airplane trader and this is how he made the majority of his money.  In the book The Evergreen Story by Bill Yenne, Evergreen founder and president Del Smith recalls, “‘It turned out that 66 percent of the profit made over the 25 years from 1960 through 1985 was in asset sales, and 33 percent was operating profits.'”  Evergreen Aircraft Sales and Leasing was established in 1983 for the purpose of buying and selling aircraft and aircraft parts.  In 2008, Evergreen Aircraft Sales and Leasing was renamed Evergreen Trade.

Evergreen’s business activities aside from trading airplanes included charter passenger and cargo service.  They also did a lot of spraying or dumping substances from aircraft.  Their first contract was a sagebrush-spraying contract.  Evergreen’s mechanics even designed and patented aircraft spraying equipment.  The Evergreen Story by Bill Yenne states, “…75 percent of its [Evergreen’s] revenue flying hours in the mid-sixties were devoted to application [spraying] work…”

Evergreen did a lot of work for the United Nations.  This time, the operations the UN was bankrolling often involved the spraying of insecticides in locations all over the world.  Just as today’s geoengineers say they will save us from the dreaded global warming, one can rest assured that Evergreen’s global spraying operations were all humanitarian efforts as well.

Also on the board of directors at Evergreen was the former boss of the CIA’s Pacific Corporation, the aforementioned George A. Doole Jr..  Mr. Doole stayed on Evergreen’s board of directors until his death in 1985.

In 2014 Evergreen Aviation International filed for bankruptcy and the company has since been sold.  At the age of 84, Evergreen founder Del Smith passed away on November 7 of that same year.  We’ll have much more about Evergreen Aviation a little later.

The Davis-Monthan boneyard

Evidence suggests that today’s chemtrail fleet consists of overhauled older model jumbo jet aircraft.  The 2010 cost analysis study done by Aurora Flight Sciences found the most cost effective chemtrail spraying aircraft to be retrofitted jumbo jets.  In congressional testimony geoengineers repeatedly suggested retrofitting existing U.S. Air Force planes.

Some chemtrail fleet planes have been expertly identified as retrofitted jumbo jets.  Allan Buckmann is a former United States Air Force meteorologist who worked on the Tiros III weather satellite system with NASA, RCA and the U.S. Navy.  He says he has repeatedly witnessed Boeing KC-135s, Boeing 707s and Lockheed C-141s spraying chemtrails.

Although there are surely other credible witnesses out there, Allan Buckmann has been very public about it and is the most credible witness known to the author.  There may very well be other types of planes that have been indoctrinated into this program, but KC-135s, 707s and C-141s have been identified expertly and therefore are worthy of further examination.

These three models of aircraft mentioned here are what are known as ‘tanker’ jets.  They are referred to this way due to their sizable fuselages which provide a large cargo carrying capacity.  Being that the planes of the New Manhattan Project necessarily need to be loaded up with electronics and lots of chemtrail spray, it makes sense that planes with lots of interior space and hauling capacity are used.

If one is to assemble a giant fleet of refurbished jumbo jet aircraft such as these, one needs a source of planes.  The largest repository of aircraft in the world is located at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tuscon, Arizona.  It is called the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group.  It is commonly referred to as the Davis-Monthan boneyard; or simply ‘the Boneyard.’  This is where old KC-135s, 707s and C-141s go to die.  That is, unless they are re-animated.  This facility may have provided a partial source of the planes used in today’s New Manhattan Project.

The developmental timeline of the New Manhattan Project suggests that these offending airplanes were retrofitted beginning in about 1980.  As evidenced by reductions in Government spending, the mid-1970s was around the time that the initial flurry of basic scientific research in support of the New Manhattan Project began to wind down.  This suggests that by the mid-’70s, the majority of the basic atmospheric research was completed and it was time to transition more into the New Manhattan Project’s implementation phases such as assembling a fleet of jumbo jets.

If we give development of these airplanes 5 years, then these planes were probably regenerated starting in about 1980.  We will have more about development shortly.  Being that this is a continuing and probably expanding program, these aircraft regeneration activities probably continue to the present day.

More evidence for the assertion of this timeline has been provided by the former head of Lockheed’s Skunk Works, Ben Rich. The Skunk Works produced airplanes.  In his book Skunk Works, Rich notes a dearth of airplane production materials and personnel in the early 1980s.  He writes, “…I suddenly found myself on the short end of materials, subcontracting work, machine shop help, and skilled labor.  Without warning, there was a dire shortage of everything used in an airplane.  lead times for basic materials stretched from weeks to literally years.”  Production of the New Manhattan Project chemtrail fleet probably contributed to these deficiencies.  So, we have a large source of planes, the types of planes and a time frame; the Boneyard, KC-135s, 707s and C-141s, and 1980-today respectively.  Let us apply this information.  Some Brits by the names of Barry Fryer, Danny Bonny and Martin Swann for a long time now have been recording and publishing the Boneyard’s airplane inventories.  Their books are compiled from Davis-Monthan’s publicly available records.  Let’s take a look at them.

For the years 1982-2005, the books by Fryer, Bonny and Swann show: a company called Tuscon Iron and Metal received 24 Boeing 707s and 54 Lockheed C-141s, something called National Aircraft Incorporated received 64 Boeing 707s and 25 Boeing KC-135s, an outfit calling itself HVF West took on 99 Lockheed C-141s, and lastly Tinker Air Force Base got 13 KC-135s.

The Tuscon Iron and Metal website says that they are a metal recycling company.  Ostensibly, Tuscon Iron and Metal recycled the 24 Boeing 707s and the 54 Lockheed C-141s they got between 1982-2005 and turned them into sheet metal, pipes and the like.

According to what is available online, Tuscon’s National Aircraft Incorporated looks like some type of small, private boneyard near the big boneyard at Davis-Monthan.  God knows what they did with the 64 Boeing 707s and the 25 Boeing KC-135s they received between 1982 and 2005.  Maybe they turned around and sold them to a regeneration center.

HVF West is another outfit headquartered in Tuscon, AZ.  They have a descent website.  They say their specialty is the ‘demilitarization’ of old military aircraft.  This involves dismantling the plane piece by piece, selling valuable parts and recycling recyclable metals.  So, ostensibly this is what they did with the 99 Lockheed C-141s they received between 1982 and 2005.

Coming up shortly in the ‘production’ section, we’ll have more about Tinker AFB and the 13 Boeing KC-135s they got between 1982 and 2005.  Yes, it appears that Tinker AFB may have been churning out the New Manhattan Project chemtrail fleet airplanes.

Drones

Evidence and logic suggest that these aircraft of the New Manhattan Project are operated remotely as drones or as the military calls them; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).  Jumbo jet airplanes such as those used in the New Manhattan Project have been capable of remote operation for a long time now.  There is evidence of the Air Force production of radio controlled aircraft dating back to at least 1947.  During Congressional testimony in 2009 and 2010, geoengineers repeatedly called for chemtrail aircraft to be drones.  The seminal 1996 document “Owning the Weather in 2025” describes drone aircraft spraying substances for the purpose of weather modification.

Remotely piloted aircraft are advantageous in the context of the New Manhattan Project because pilots are full of liabilities.  Pilots have ethics.  Pilots might blab about the Project.  Pilots should only fly for a certain number of hours.  Pilots are unionized.  Robot planes can probably be controlled in the number of 20 or more by a single operator at a time.  Robot planes would make the Project run more smoothly.

Why not?  The conventional weather modification industry is starting to use them.  According to AccuWeather.com, in late 2013 the Federal Aviation Administration selected six states for participation in a pilot program using drone aircraft for the purpose of spraying the conventional weather modification industry standard silver iodide.  Although silver iodide is not what the New Manhattan Project aircraft spray, the concept is the same.

The New Manhattan Project chemtrail fleet may also involve other automated systems.  U.S. Patent #6,131,854 “Ground Handling Apparatus for Unmanned Tactical Aircraft” describes a system whereby a remotely piloted plane can land on a runway and then be remotely hooked onto a track system that pulls the airplane through a series of automated stations that diagnose the aircraft, arm or disarm the plane, and lastly refuel the aircraft.

Power beaming

Maybe the airplanes of this new Manhattan Project are powered wirelessly and have no need for conventional jet fuel.  For this assertion, there is plenty of evidence.

Yes, power can be transmitted wirelessly.  This is not a new thing.  If you are unaware of this, please search the term ‘wireless power.’  The Wikipedia listing alone provides an overwhelming amount of information.  There is so much material available here that your author has excluded lots of information which many would characterize as indispensable.

The wireless transmission of power goes back to Heinrich Hertz and Nikola Tesla.  Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894) first demonstrated it.  Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) later popularized it, but was unsuccessful at setting up large-scale operations.  He was famously foiled by J.P. Morgan and the bankster establishment.

A Westinghouse Laboratory scientist by the name of H. V. Noble demonstrated wireless power transfer at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago.  In the late 1930s, significant technological advancements (klystron tubes and microwave cavity magnetrons) advanced the field.

In the late 1950s, George Goubau, F. Schwering and others demonstrated that microwave power could be transmitted with efficiencies approaching 100 percent.  This was later confirmed by Raytheon.  Another significant advancement in this era was something called an Amplitron.  These developments along with a growing need for this type of technology motivated Raytheon to study and propose the Raytheon Airborne Microwave Platform (RAMP) concept in 1959 to the Department of Defense.

Let us reference William C. Brown’s (1916-1999) dissertation “The History of Power Transmission by Radio Waves,” “The proposed platform, to be flown at 50,000 ft, was a large helicopter which a number of cooperating helicopter companies studied and concluded would be feasible.  While the Department of Defense did not subsequently support the development of RAMP, Raytheon’s briefings broadly spread the concept and encouraged the support of technology developments that were felt necessary for its practical realization.”

In 1964, Raytheon demonstrated a 5 lb. wirelessly powered helicopter flying at an altitude of 50 ft. for 10 hours.  About this, the aforementioned William Brown of Raytheon Company wrote, “In 1963, the Rome Air Development Center of the United States Air Force became interested in supporting a feasibility study to construct and fly a microwave-powered helicopter and awarded a contract to the Raytheon Company in June 1964.  In October of the same year, the Rome Air Development Center and the Raytheon Company jointly sponsored a public demonstration of a microwave-powered helicopter which received all power needed for its flight from a beam of microwave energy.  This flight which established the technical feasibility of the microwave-powered helicopter is the most recent completed development in this area.  There are now plans to go ahead with the next phase of development.”  This October, 1964 demonstration was covered by Walter Cronkite and the CBS evening news.

Beginning in 1977, the field of wireless power transmission got a big boost from a joint Department of Energy (DOE) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) assessment study of a solar-power satellite concept.  A solar panel is a lot like a power receiving antenna known as a ‘rectenna.’  Along with Raytheon and the Air Force again, corporations such as Boeing and Rockwell International became involved.  The study concluded in 1980.  Following the conclusion of the joint DOE/NASA study, NASA continued work in the area of wireless power transmission by sponsoring studies on microwave-powered high-altitude atmospheric platforms.

In 1984, Raytheon’s William Brown wrote pertaining to the wireless powering of satellites, “It is interesting to note that the technology has now matured to the point where it is seriously being proposed as an alternate approach to the use of solar photovoltaic arrays in applications where hundreds of thousands of kilowatts of continuous power may be desired for propulsion or for payload.”

In this same piece, William Brown also depicts and writes of a rectenna attached to the wing of a small airplane said to be achieving 85% efficiency.  This new technology is described as, “…applicable to vehicles in space and to vehicles in the Earth’s atmosphere.”  William Brown should know.  He was the leading expert in the field.

The 1991 United States patent #5,068,669 titled “Power Beaming System” is one of the original HAARP patents. This patent outlines the technical details of how to remotely power airplanes.  If you are unfamiliar with HAARP and its patents, please see the author’s previous article “Smoking Gun: The HAARP and Chemtrails Connection.”

Let us refer to a passage from the seminal book Angels Don’t Play this HAARP.  Authors Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning reference an Aviation Week article:

This ‘Star Wars’ technology developed by ARCO Power Technologies, Incorporated [patent #5,068,669’s assignee] was used in a microwaved-powered aircraft.  The aircraft was reported to be able to stay aloft for up to 10,000 hours at 80,000 foot altitudes in a single mission.  This craft was envisioned as a surveillance platform.  The craft had no need for refueling because the energy was beamed to it and then converted to electrical energy for use by the aircraft.  Flight tests were undertaken at Tyendinga Airport near Kingston, Ontario, Canada in the early 1990’s.  This test by APTI most likely involved this patent…

There are scores of other patents pertaining to the wireless powering of vehicles.  From the early US patent #3,464,207 “Quasi-Corona-Aerodynamic Vehicle” to the Queen of England’s U.S. patent #4,955,562 “Microwave Powered Aircraft” to another patent of the same name (U.S. patent #5,503,350) to the U.S. Navy’s patent #6,364,253 “Remote Piloted Vehicle Powered by Beamed Radiation” to Power Beaming Corporation’s patent #6,534,705 “Methods and Apparatus for Beaming Power” the reality of this technology is apparent.

If ionospheric heaters like HAARP are powering the chemtrail airplanes, this would be a great logistical advantage as the planes would not need to be grounded for refueling.  The airplanes would probably only need to be grounded for payload and maintenance and therefore could remain in the sky, performing their functions without interruption for much longer periods of time.  This would also be an advantage because the more time these planes spend in the air, the less chance there is of the program being exposed.  It’s incredibly difficult (as this author has learned) to expose something going on at 40,000 ft. in the sky.  The power beaming need not be constant as the airplanes could utilize rechargeable batteries.

Development

The highly specialized aircraft described here would necessarily need to be developed.  These are not off-the-shelf aircraft and are, in fact, quite secret.  Extensive research, development and testing would be required.  This research, development and testing would best be suited to a single base of operations.  Multiple bases of operation separated by significant distance would not be desirous because people work better together in close proximity and multiple development centers would increase security risks.  Anyway, as far as the development phase goes, all you need is one plane, so all you need is one location.

Although we have seen evidence of the Rome Air Development Center developing pertinent technology and Lockheed’s famous Skunk Works might also be seen as possibly responsible, a more logical choice exists.

One of the types of aircraft expertly identified by Mr. Buckmann is the Boeing KC-135.  Wright-Patterson AFB has an extensive history of retrofitting KC-135s.  Further, Wright-Patterson has an extensive history of retrofitting KC-135s for activities pertaining to weather modification and the atmospheric sciences.  The Boeing KC-135 is a close relative of the Boeing 707 which is also noted by Mr. Buckmann as one of today’s offending aircraft.

Let us reference Robert S. Hopkins’ book Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: More than Just a Tanker:  Mr. Hopkins expounds upon the easily modifiable KC-135 and how Wright-Patterson AFB was the best place to modify them:

…the KC-135 was the logical choice as a test bed platform [experimentally modified airplane] due to its size, capacity, speed, endurance, high altitude capability, and suitability for extensive modification.  With a dozen early production KC-135s serving in a temporary test and evaluation role at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, the nexus of Air Force research, their jump from basic flight test airplanes to research platforms was simple and immediate.

From their arrival in 1957 at Wright-Patterson AFB for operational test and evaluation, until their transfer in 1994 to Edwards AFB as part of the sweeping reorganization of the Air Force, test-bed KC-135s have long been synonymous with ‘Wright-Pat.’  These airplanes were assigned to the Flight and All-Weather Test Division at WADC at Wright-Patterson AFB.

As far as development of the vehicles is concerned, Wright-Patterson AFB is a prime suspect.  Development of a super-cool, cutting edge, next generation jumbo jet in the land of the Wright brothers might go over well.  Wright-Patterson AFB is located just outside of Dayton, Ohio where the aviation pioneering Wright brothers lived.  This also may have been the location to develop and produce the first New Manhattan Project chemtrail plane.  The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker appears to be the likely airplane of choice.

As a result of the Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1988, the Davis-Monthan boneyard  came under the command of Wright-Patterson.  Later, the Rome Air Development Center was renamed the Rome Laboratory and placed under Wright-Patterson’s command as well.  If you will recall, Rome Air Development Center is a location where power beaming technology was developed.  Lastly, Wright-Patterson AFB, where this author suspects the chemtrail sprayers of today have been developed, is also one of the main developers of HAARP.

Production

Once Wright-Patterson established a standardized process for turning old bones into awesome new meta-jets, many other maintenance facilities around the Country and around the world may have then replicated these same activities.  Multiple modification and regeneration centers would probably be called for because any one of these facilities doesn’t usually have the capacity to work on more than 2 or 3 planes of this size at a time.

Wright-Patterson itself may have produced many of these regenerated aircraft.  Other maintenance facilities involved may have included: the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan AFB, the Evergreen Air Center, and Tinker AFB.

The Davis-Monthan boneyard has world class aircraft maintenance, modification and regeneration facilities as well.  Maybe some New Manhattan Project airplanes were overhauled and retrofitted on site.

As previously noted, Evergreen Aviation operated a maintenance and repair facility at their Evergreen Air Center in Marana, Arizona.  This location is a prime suspect for having produced airplanes of the New Manhattan Project chemtrail fleet.  This location had world-class maintenance facilities, ample storage and a history of accommodating the U.S. military and the CIA.

Also as previously noted, this air center was acquired from the CIA’s Intermountain Aviation.  The CIA offered it only to Evergreen; nobody else.  Before that, the base originated as Marana Army Air Field; a United States Army Air Force base.  The United States Army Air Force is the predecessor to todays United States Air Force.

Reminiscing about the former Intermountain Marana base, the author of The Evergreen Story Bill Yenne quotes Evergreen founder and president Delford Smith:

‘It was a natural fit,’ Del Smith recalls. ‘Intermountain approached us and explained that they had a repair station with an unlimited, Class I through IV certification, which gives Federal Aviation Administration authority to work on any type of aircraft.  We really bought Marana for our own planned needs, but as we grew, it would change into more of a third-party operation.’

Let us reference another passage from The Evergreen Story:

The Evergreen Maintenance Center (EMC), located in Marana, Arizona, is one of the most comprehensive and diversified maintenance facilities in the Western Hemisphere, including the world’s largest storage and preservation facility for private and commercial aircraft.  The Maintenance Center also has an on-site engineering department to support routine maintenance, modification and conversion work.

On page 217, The Evergreen Story continues:

Evergreen Maintenance Center is one of very few companies in the United States with several Federal Aviation Administration Certificated Repair Station ratings, as well as European Joint Aviation Authorities (European Equivalent of FAA), JAR-145 (Joint Aviation Requirements 145) ratings and those of other international agencies, such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Chinese Civil Aviation Authority (CAAC).

The Evergreen Story also recounts, “The early years of majority in-house work [working on Evergreen aircraft] shifted to majority third-party work in the eighties and early nineties.”

A former manager at the Evergreen Maintenance Center notes that at the time of acquisition, Evergreen started with about 40 center employees.  Eight years later in 1982, there were 350 working out of the EMC.  As we have seen, 1980 is probably about the time when the New Manhattan Project chemtrail fleet went into production.

In 1985, Evergreen’s George A. Doole Aviation Center at the Evergreen Maintenance Center came online which expanded and updated the EMC’s capabilities.  The aforementioned George A. Doole, if you will recall, was the guy who founded and ran the CIA’s Pacific Corporation.  Also as previously mentioned, George A. Doole was also on the Evergreen Aviation board of directors.

The Evergreen Story states that, “…the entire Pan American World Airways fleet of Boeing 707’s was stored at Evergreen Maintenance Center.”  As we have seen, the Boeing 707 is one of the airplanes expertly identified as a chemtrail spraying aircraft.

As the crow flies, the former Pinal Air Park is only 17 miles from the Davis-Monthan boneyard.  If aircraft stored at the Boneyard were airworthy or even towed out and along the highway, Evergreen Aviation Services may have been transforming these old dogs into snazzy New Manhattan Project fleet airplanes.  As we will see, there would also be other certain advantages to having this work done at the EMC.

Let us again reference a passage from The Evergreen Story.  Bill Yenne writes:

Evergreen Maintenance Center also was doing military and government work for the United States and other countries.  These projects included a contract for overhauling the transmission and rotor-heads of Peruvian helicopters and reconditioning aircraft that came out of long term storage at the US Air Force’s Military Aircraft Storage & Disposition Center at Davis-Monthan AFB south of Tuscon.  The proximity of Evergreen Maintenance Center to Davis-Monthan has always put Evergreen in a good position for military contracts.

The Oregonian was more explicit, “Under both Intermountain and Evergreen, planes from the boneyard have been short-hopped to Marana’s giant shops and reconditioned for assorted customers, including, under Evergreen, the Colombian Air Force.”

Being that today’s chemtrail spraying operations are a military effort with heavy involvement of what passes for our United States Air Force, Evergreen’s military ties make sense. The Air Force’s “Owning the Weather 2025” report outlines the program. Navy Admiral William Francis Raborn described the New Manhattan Project in 1963. Only the military could develop something this big.

As noted above, Evergreen has conducted lots of military aircraft maintenance and regeneration work. Also as previously noted, Evergreen’s headquarters in Marana, Arizona was originally a U.S. military base. Evergreen has also worked with the United States Air Force spraying rice crops in Pakistan. In 1978, Evergreen had a passenger service contract with the US Navy. In that same year of 1978, Evergreen started flying lots of personnel and materiel for the former US Air Force Military Airlift Command. It helps when the former chief of the Military Airlift Command General William G. Moore is on your board of directors. Evergreen operated small planes in Panama under contract with the Department of Defense. Evergreen participated in something called the Civil Reserve Air Fleet which augmented U.S. military operations such as those in the Middle East. Just as the Western instigated wars in the Far East were good for Air America’s business, the Western instigated Middle East wars of late were very good for Evergreen’s bottom line.

Evergreen Aviation did lots of work for the United Nations.  This is significant because in today’s chemtrail spraying operations, the United Nations has indicated involvement.  Starting in 1974, Evergreen sprayed insecticides in Africa for the UN’s River Blindness Control Program.  Evergreen also provided support to the UN’s River Blindness Control Program in Nepal.  Evergreen has also ferried cargo into Africa for the UN’s High Commission for Refugees and the UN’s World Food Program.  Evergreen has supported the UN’s so-called ‘peacekeeping’ efforts in: Angola, Liberia, Mozambique, Somalia and the Western Sahara.

President Kennedy spoke in favor of weather modification at the UN in 1961.  The UN issued a 1999 IPCC report with a cover photo of jet airplanes emitting trails entitled “Aviation and the Global Atmosphere.”  The report had chapters entitled “Aviation-Produced Aerosols and Cloudiness” and “Modeling the Chemical Composition of the Future Atmosphere.”  The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) issued a report in November of 2011 titled “Geoengineering the Climate: Research Questions and Policy Implications.”  It proposes geoengineering and features a full color illustration of a jumbo jet spraying stratospheric aerosols (chemtrails).  This is all just scratching the surface.

Evergreen has also done work for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).  Evergreen maintained the jumbo jet that carried the Space Shuttle piggyback.  This is significant because NASA has a long history of contributing to weather modification and the atmospheric sciences.

Evergreen had a division which supplied customers with the services of drone aircraft called Evergreen Unmanned Systems.  As we have seen, there is plenty of evidence for the assertion that the airplanes of today’s New Manhattan Project chemtrail fleet are operated remotely as unmanned aerial vehicles.

The security at the Evergreen Maintenance Center was extraordinary.  Being that the regeneration of airplanes to be used in the New Manhattan Project is highly secret work, this level of security would be advantageous. The Oregonian writes:

The presence of so many expensive aircraft is the reason given for the visibly high level of security at Evergreen Air Center.  Visitors don’t wander in casually.  Guards in military-green uniforms with Evergreen patches on the shoulders control traffic through the entry gate.  A candy-striped barrier like a railroad-crossing gate swings down to stop vehicles the guards don’t recognize.

Visitors’ identities are checked, their appointments verified with phone calls and passes are issued to dangle on rear-view mirrors and clip to lapels.  Behind the neatly kept guard building is a dog run housing German shepherds that help patrol the area at night.

As we have seen, Evergreen had extensive ties to the CIA.  The CIA can provide cover for covert operations such as those described here.  The CIA may have helped cover the Chemtrail Fleet’s tracks.  Let us refer again to the book Air America.  Christopher Robbins writes:

All planes have tail numbers, and their engines and instruments are numbered as well, which makes disguise difficult.  The CIA would keep a list of the aircraft that had crashed and then create two or three airplanes with the same tail number, and two or three with no tail numbers at all.  Then, in an exceedingly complex operation using very careful manipulation and scheduling, they would cause aircraft to show up in places two at a time, making them impossible to follow.  On top of this, Air America had the capacity on Taiwan and at Udorn to manufacture their own planes.  The idea was to create a plane that did not exist, one that even the manufacturer back in the States would swear had never been made.  Instruments and engines were produced with no serial numbers and no decals, which was a problem in itself because an engine is dye-stamped, and even if the numbers are erased, the stamp can be seen on the metal.

In short, Evergreen was the right operation with the right pedigree and the right connections at the right time to be involved in assembling the airplanes of the New Manhattan Project.  Just as the New Manhattan Project operates on a global scale, so did Evergreen Aviation.  Maybe Delford Smith and Evergreen Aviation were instrumental in not only regenerating the airplanes, but also in brokering the deals for the airplanes.  As noted earlier, Evergreen Aviation made most of it’s money buying and selling aircraft and had a special division (the aforementioned Evergreen Aircraft Sales & Leasing) devoted to the task.

In 2011, Evergreen sold the maintenance and repair facilities at Pinal Airpark, Marana, Arizona to a New York based private equity firm called Relativity Capital.  The facilities now go by the name Marana Aerospace Solutions.

Tinker Air Force Base may have been another location to produce chemtrail fleet aircraft.  Tinker AFB has an extensive history of maintenance on both the KC-135 Stratotanker and the C-141 Starlifter and a history of modifying the KC-135.  As we have seen, these two models of aircraft have been expertly identified as common chemtrail sprayers.  Also as we have seen, Tinker AFB was the recipient of 13 mothballed KC-135s between 1982 and 2005.  These mothballed planes may have served as the bones of the New Manhattan Project chemtrail fleet.  Tinker AFB is the base where chemtrail whistleblower Kristen Meghan was working when she noted and later publicized anomalous deliveries of aluminum, barium and strontium.

Another maintenance facility which may have been involved is on the grounds of Tainan Airport in Taiwan.  This is the facility noted in the above quote engaging in airplane serial and tail number shenanigans.  These were the maintenance facilities of CIA proprietary Air Asia.  These vast, world class maintenance facilities were purchased in 1975 by a company called E-Systems.  As we are about to see, E-Systems has other connections to the New Manhattan Project.

Many other aircraft maintenance facilities may have also been involved, but those noted here are the most probable.

There also have existed aircraft maintenance and modification centers dedicated to work in the area of the atmospheric sciences.  Most notably the National Center for Atmospheric Research Research Aviation Facility and the Environmental Science Services Administration Research Flight Facility have historically modified many airplanes.  The modifications involved outfitting the airplanes with atmospheric monitoring and modification equipment and in some cases reinforcing an aircraft to be able to withstand certain inclement weather conditions such as large hail.  These facilities may have played a role in the development and/or production of the New Manhattan Project chemtrail fleet.  Being that today’s offending airplanes are probably used to collect atmospheric data as they saturate our atmosphere, the equipment used to accomplish this may very well have come from these atmospheric flight research facilities.

Conclusions

From Civil Air Transport to Air America to Evergreen International, this article shows that the CIA runs American covert aircraft operations.  The CIA is probably providing cover for the New Manhattan Project.  Guess who was the head of the CIA in 1965 . . . Admiral William Francis Raborn United States Navy.  This is the man who wrote an article in 1963 outlining the same military weather modification program described in 1996’s “Owning the Weather 2025.”  This is a man who in 1963 described the New Manhattan Project and was in a position to do something about it.  To act in this capacity, his admiralship was only but one of the positions he held.

Admiral Raborn was also on the board of directors of a company called LTV Electrosystems.  LTV Electrosystems became E-Systems.  E-Systems of Greenville, Texas built the HAARP antenna array and is now integrated into Raytheon.  The HAARP antenna array and technology like it are integral elements and distinguishing factors of the New Manhattan Project.

The history of this rare breed of aircraft described here is filled with adventure, intrigue, big business, high technology and big media.  The topics of aircraft and aviation are similarly steeped.  It is this way because people have historically been fascinated with flight.  This fascination seems to the author to have diminished somewhat in recent decades.  What was once extraordinary is now commonplace.

Just as the generations before us marveled at the development of aeronautics, so should today’s.  We have seen that exciting technologies exist.  Instead of covertly building chemtrail planes and spraying God’s creation, our Government representatives should work to create an environment where new, wholly different generations of clean air and space vehicles can develop.  This, of course, should be done in an open and transparent fashion which welcomes the input of concerned citizens and be within the bounds of the law, morality and common sense.  Today’s New Manhattan Project chemtrail fleet is a black mark on the otherwise wonderful history of aviation.

No, it’s not time for a violent revolution against the United States government.  That is not necessary.  It is similarly not time to blame the people who have unknowingly been involved in the development of what eventually became the New Manhattan Project.  It is simply time to enforce our Constitution and Bill of Rights by shutting down the New Manhattan Project and moving forward in a responsible fashion.  Thank You.

Notes:

Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and his American volunteers, 1941-1942 book by Daniel Ford, published by Smithsonian Books, 2007

William D. Pawley: The Extraordinary Life of the Adventurer, Entrepreneur, and Diplomat Who Cofounded the Flying Tigers book by Anthony R. Carrozza, published by Potomac Books, 2012

Air America book by Christopher Robbins, published by Cassell, 2012

Prelude to Terror: the Rogue CIA and the Legacy of America’s Private Intelligence Network book by Joseph J. Trento, published by Carroll & Graf, 2005

“The Evergreen Story” a series of reports appearing in The Oregonian newspaper from August 4, 1988 to August 22, 1988

The Evergreen Story book by Bill Yenne & Delford Smith, published by Evergreen International Aviation, 2008

“Geoengineering Cost Analysis” report by Aurora Flight Sciences, 2010

“Geoengineering: Parts I, II, and III” hearing before the Committee on Science and Technology House of Representatives 2009-2010

Interdepartmental Committee for Atmospheric Sciences reports 1960-1978, published by the Federal Council for Science and Technology

Skunk Works book by Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos, published by Little, Brown and Company, 1994

“MASDC II AMARC: Aerospace Maintenance & Regeneration Center, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona 1982-1997” by Barry Fryer and Martin Swann, published by Aviation Press Ltd and British Aviation Research Group, 1998

“AMARC (MASDC III): Aerospace Maintenance & Regeneration Center, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona” by Danny Bonny, Barry Fryer and Martin Swann, published by British Aviation Research Group, 2006

“Tinker Air Force Base: A Pictorial History” by the Office of History, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, Air Force Logistics Command, published by the US Government Printing Office, 1983

“Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025” by Col. Tamzy J. House, Lt. Col. James B. Near, Jr., LTC William B. Shields (USA), Maj. Ronald J. Celentano, Maj. David M. Husband, Maj. Ann E. Mercer and Maj. James E. Pugh, published by the United States Air Force, 1996

U.S. Patent #6,131,854 “Ground Handling Apparatus for Unmanned Tactical Aircraft”

“The History of Power Transmission by Radio Waves” paper by William C. Brown as it appeared in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. MTT-32, No. 9, September 1984

Tesla: Man Out of Time book by Margaret Cheney, published by Simon & Schuster, 1981

“The Microwave Powered Helicopter” by William C. Brown, published by Raytheon Company, Burlington, Massachusetts, as it appeared in the premier edition of The Journal of Microwave Power, 1964

U.S. patent #5,068,669 “Power Beaming System”

Angels Don’t Play this HAARP: advances in Tesla technology by Jeane Manning and Dr. Nick Begich, published by Earthpulse Press, 1995

U.S. patent #3,464,207 “Quasi-Corona-Aerodynamic Vehicle”

U.S. patent #4,955,562 “Microwave Powered Aircraft”

U.S. patent #5,503,350 “Microwave-Powered Aircraft”

U.S. patent #6,364,253 “Remote Piloted Vehicle Powered by Beamed Radiation”

U.S. patent #6,534,705 “Methods and Apparatus for Beaming Power”

Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: More than Just a Tanker book by Robert S. Hopkins III, published by Midland Publishing Limited as part of the Aerofax series, 1997

50 Years of the Desert Boneyard book by Philip D. Chinnery, published by Motorbooks International, 1995

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Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America book by Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall, published by the University of California Press, 1998

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flyingtigersavg.com
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Peter A. Kirby is a San Rafael, CA researcher, author and activist.  Check out his ebook Chemtrails Exposed: A new Manhattan Project.

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One Last Look At The Real Economy Before It Implodes Part 6 Solutions

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By Brandon Smith

All problems, all crises, have at least one solution, if not many solutions. There is no such thing as an unwinnable scenario. Some may not be smart enough or courageous enough to see it, but the solution is always there, waiting to be discovered. The only fight that cannot be won is the fight in which the enemy makes all the rules and we foolishly abide by those rules. Life is not a game of chess, and a man can choose to be more than a pawn anytime he has the guts to do so.

In the past, I have likened the liberty movement to a rebellion against not just tyrants but the game itself – a group of people willing to walk away from the chess board and make their own rules. I stand by that assertion. However, simply walking away is not enough; we must also be willing to take actions that will destroy the game entirely.

In order to accomplish this task, any rebellion against corruption of power must be self-critical – more self-critical of its own weaknesses than opposing propagandists could ever be. Most of our problems as a society are being caused by a relatively small number of elitists, but we will never be able to undo these problems without understanding our weaknesses as much as the enemy’s weaknesses. In this final installment of my six-part series, I will talk about REALsolutions to the inevitable economic implosion in front of us, but I will also discuss the shortcomings of the liberty movement as an obstacle to the success of those solutions.

Perhaps the most detrimental of weaknesses within the Liberty Movement is a propensity of some to demand action by others before they take action themselves.  Not all solutions require a synchronized mass movement led by top-down leadership.  Often the best solutions are implemented by individuals and small groups within the local sphere.  One man alone may not be able to change the entire world, but each individual can change the immediate world around him in smaller ways each day.  Activists need to stop concerning themselves with what everyone else is doing and worry more about what THEY are doing to derail tyranny.

As noted in Part 5 of this series, segments of the liberty movement have fallen into a trap of biased assumption, namely a gullible embrace of the false East/West paradigm. I find it a little sad at times when I come across freedom activists who worship the footsteps of Henry Kissinger/International Monetary Fund puppet Vladimir Putin, or those who cheer for a globalist petri dish like China, all because they hate American imperialism so much they have decided out of reactionary fervor to cheerlead for the “lesser of two evils.” There is no difference between those who buy into the false East/West paradigm and those who buy into the false Left/Right political paradigm. There is no “good guy” in the world of geopolitical maneuvering. East or West, it is all irrelevant primarily because both sides serve the same international interests. Those who refuse to recognize this fact will find themselves utterly incompetent in terms of presenting practical solutions.  One cannot defeat the game if one plays by the unfair rules of the game.

Another issue within the liberty movement is an inability by some to consider where the globalist ideal will actually lead. I know very well that there are 1,001 theories out there as to what the globalists actually want to achieve, which is why I personally look at the evidence at hand. The best available evidence is the evidence the elites openly ADMIT to, as they are apt to do in random fits of arrogance. It is important to understand that the elites often cannot help themselves and are desperate to boast of their activities before said activities are a forgone conclusion. Some analysts in recent history have presented undeniable admission by the elites, yet some activists still bicker about the enemy’s intent.

Whether it be the surprising words of insiders like Carroll Quigley, or the in-depth investigations of Antony Sutton, or the quotable quotes of frothing Fabian socialists, there is indeed a distinct strategy in play and this strategy is hidden in plain sight; the strategy of order out of chaos. And in terms of economics, there is an openly admitted goal, namely the integration of national currencies into a single global basket system (the special drawing rights, or SDR) controlled by the IMF and the Bank for International Settlements. I do not “believe” this is the goal; I KNOW this is the goal because the elites have for decades openly admitted to it in articles like “Get Ready For The Phoenix” published by the Rothschild-owned The Economist in 1988, which stated that a global currency system will be established under the auspices of the SDR by 2018.

Further information on the plan for global economic reset can be found in my article ‘The Economic Endgame Explained.’

As I have shown with ample evidence throughout this series, the U.S. is on the verge of fiscal collapse, the dollar is already in the process of losing its world reserve status, the East is just as subservient to the reset plan as the West, and all of this is in preparation for an engineered disaster that will anesthetize the masses and prepare them for a shift toward total centralization.

Solutions require us to first grasp the fundamental nature of the greater threat. The cold, hard truth is that we as a movement for freedom are alone in the fight against globalization. There are no nation states to fall back on. There is no safe region on the planet to run away to. No white knight is coming to our rescue, and any embrace of the East will end only in co-option and defeat for liberty activists.

Believe it or not, though, I am still an optimist.

Knowing the scale of the threat gives clarity to our response. The movement stands alone, therefore, we must act without naively waiting for outside aid. We must take on an attitude of self-reliance.

The gravity of our situation also reveals to us what solutions actually have merit and which “solutions” present false hopes. I have seen numerous attempts at silver-bullet solutions in the movement over the past decade, from useless and intangible crypto-currencies to pyramid schemes designed to generate enough revenue to “sue” the Federal Reserve to blind armed marches on Washington planned by tactically retarded spokesmen to even more national election drives wasting even more money and more energy on candidates that may mean well but have no chance at defusing the economic time bomb already ticking away.

If the solution presented seems too easy, then it is probably nonsense. If someone is trying to sell you on the idea that no sacrifice, no struggle and no pain will be required to defeat globalism, then they are probably a con man trying to take something from you, whether it be your money or your common sense. Throughout history, the only real solutions to real problems — economic, social or political — require much pain and sacrifice. To change the world for the better, to fight for the truth, you must be willing to take risks up to an including risking your life, otherwise failure is guaranteed.

I do not believe in silver-bullet solutions. I do not believe there is a path of “least resistance.” The following methods are not academic. They are not philosophical. They will not appeal to the egghead libertarian portion of the movement, obsessed with theory rather than practice. And they will not appeal to self-proclaimed pacifists terrified of consequence and public perception. These are difficult actions requiring the will to endure.  Every response listed here is a response I am applying in my own community, and I would not suggest a solution that I would not undertake myself.

Localism

If you want to undermine a concerted campaign of globalization, you must generate an opposing system. The opposite of tyranny is voluntarism. The opposite of collectivism is individualism. The opposite of globalism is localism.

Localism is economic organization based upon the methodology of self-reliance. While globalism forces people, cities, states and countries to become interdependent and unable to survive or prosper without each other, localism brings internal economic stability and removes dependency. If all communities were based on localism and independent fiscal strength, such redundancy would make widespread financial collapse a thing of the past.

While globalism is a top down model in which all decisions and power bottleneck at the peak of the pyramid, localism is a bottom up grass-roots initiative completely voluntary in nature.  It is a methodology in which no one has power over the lives of others. That said, in order for localism to become a reality, these things must be accomplished first…

Real Preparedness

Self-reliance requires preparedness. There is no way around it. There is no such thing as crisis for those who are prepared. This means placing oneself in a position to provide the necessities of life so that one does not become a slave to need. Desperation often leads to moral relativism, and tyrants thrive on the moral weakness of a population. The more prepared an individual is, the more likely he is to fight back against despotism. The more prepared a community is, the less that community will feel inclined to request aid from those who might leverage such aid to oppress that community.

Preparedness can also in some cases include commodity investment by individuals and networks of individuals. While beans, bullets and Band-Aids are a priority, no one can deny the trend of foreign central banks stockpiling precious metals. And this stockpiling is clearly being done as a parallel measure to de-dollarization and the rise of the SDR basket. Metals are useful during windows of time just before collapse and after rebuilding has begun. They are a back-up. They are not a solution by themselves.

Real Production

Americans, in particular, will have to become producers again. And by production I mean useful items, useful skills and useful ideas, rather than frivolous attempts to sustain our avarice and empty materialism. Do you have the skills to produce food, clean water, shelter, warmth or energy? Are you able to invent or reimagine useful tools? Can you repair useful items? Do you have any experience with hard labor whatsoever? If you have answered in the negative to these questions, then you have a lot of work ahead of you to learn what you can in the time we have left. If you were to approach a group of people today and try to convince them of your value as a producer, what would you tell them? If you were thrust into an economic system in which barter was the primary means of wealth circulation, what would you trade that people would actually want?  It is not about being “communally useful”, but it is about supply and demand.  What can you provide that is commonly in demand during faltering fiscal conditions?

This is not necessarily a call for Americans to revert back to 18^th century living; it is a call for Americans to reclaim their heritage of entrepreneurship and adaptability. Globalism is merely feudal mercantilism wearing a modernized mask. It is globalism that is taking us back to the Dark Ages. And only localism can bring us into a future where technical achievement works for the common man rather than against him.

Real Community

Humans are social beings, but there are healthy forms of social organization, and unhealthy forms.  At this stage in our society, collectivism has nearly decimated all vestiges of true community. Today, people have no clue who their neighbors are and most of them do not want to know. They have little to no interaction with their surroundings beyond superficial consumerism, and they see every other person around them as a competitor rather than an ally. Their idea of the “greater good” is a mentally deranged one. For them, the state is the root source of safety and communal coherency rather than the citizenry, and the people around them are not to be trusted.

Collectivism isolates people from each other to the point that their only means of feeling a connection with their fellow man is to do so through support of the establishment control grid. Participation in the totalitarian framework becomes a shallow replacement for participation in the world around us. By paying taxes, blindly supporting a war, giving to impotent international charities and voting once every two to four years in the farcical election process, we fool ourselves into believing we are a part of a “team” and that our civic duty has been fulfilled.

This terrible cycle can be broken, but it takes the effort of individuals going out and actively building relationships with others of like mind off the grid, so to speak. The liberty movement in particular should be forming groups and associations all over the country — not just to complain about the condition of the nation, but to take tangible actions. Mutual aid and barter groups, neighborhood watches and community preparedness teams, business ventures and engineering projects are all useful means of organization. These organizations will not form themselves. YOU must make them happen.

Real Self-Defense

As I discussed in my article ‘If You Are Not Thinking Tactically You Are Not A Survivalist,’ self-defense is an imperative that simply cannot be denied. This defense must include preparation for all enemies, foreign and domestic, and corrupt government is not excluded.

Economic collapse is very often followed by an increase in oppressive state power. And in the end, the establishment does not relinquish power over the citizenry unless it is forced to do so. Because of this reality, all honorable people should endeavor to become dangerous people, the more dangerous the better.

Voices expressing nihilism and futility in self defense are rarely constructive and should be ignored. Frankly, I find such cowardice stomach churning. There may very well come a day in which you will have to decide between freedom or absolute slavery. The size, strength and technological advancement of the enemy should have NO bearing whatsoever on the choice to fight for freedom; it should only have bearing on the applied strategy. Again, there is no problem without a solution if you have the courage to seek it. I hope that my joint project with Oath Keepers on how to build a working thermal evasion suit, due to be released in the next few weeks, will provide a good example as to why a technologically advanced tyranny is still vulnerable to a resourceful citizenry.

Real Grass-Roots Expansion

There has always been a lot of talk within the liberty movement of “nullification.” But ultimately, the philosophy of nullification is useless unless it comes from a position of strength. Federal overreach will not stop simply because a state happens to pass a bill denying the establishment full access. Here in Montana, medical marijuana legalization was crushed by the Feds despite state recognition. They simply marched in and arrested on drug charges anyone who dared open up shop, and the state did nothing to stop it. This is just one example of many in which nullification failed because people refused to accept that written law is meaningless unless it is backed by a vigilant public.  Words on paper alone have never stopped the ascendance of totalitarians.

I suspect that as the overall economic implosion becomes more obvious to average people, there will be some counties and states that develop a desire for nullification on a grand scale. Americans will want resource implementation to provide wealth protection. And some states have more than enough resources to offset a national financial disaster, or at least stop that disaster at their borders. This would require the complete dissolution of numerous federal laws prohibiting resource development.

Such dissolution will not be successful unless counties and states have enough strong grass-roots communities in place to defend against federal intrusion — or at least make the idea so costly and prohibitive that they have second thoughts. Each smaller liberty group linking with other liberty groups can eventually create this kind of expansion. This is, of course, a best-case scenario. County and state organization should take a backseat to neighborhood and town organization until wider expansion becomes realistic.  Strong counties and states begin with strong individuals, strong neighborhoods, and strong towns.

The collapse itself could easily be prolonged through a series of smaller catastrophes; or it could happen in a matter of days, depending on the trigger. For now, it appears that the U.S. is to be worn down to nothing as the IMF works closely with the BRICS to promote the SDR basket system. All nations will be negatively affected by this shift, but some will be hurt far more than others. War is certainly a possibility and would make for great cover as the IMF’s global reset is enacted. I can’t speak much to this kind of event other than to say that regardless of what happens, the IMF and the BIS will remain neutral, waiting until the conflict subsides so that they can step in as “heroes” ready to rebuild the world.

The liberty movement must also be ready to rebuild, and our ideal must be fully formed if we are to compete with the globalists. The most difficult reality of all is the reality that economic implosion is only the end of one struggle and the beginning of a new struggle. Our responsibility will not only be to fight against the machinations of elitists, but also to convince the world that the way of independence and freedom is more useful and preferable than the way of collectivist peasantry. Collapse is already upon us; now we must decide who will determine what happens next.

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THERE IS ONLY ONE SOLUTION, FORCE GOVERNMENT’S HAND

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THIS IS OUR 100TH ARTICLE WITH NEWSWITHVIEWS

By Ron Ewart
April 22, 2015
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“Government is an insatiable, devouring, run away, gigantic black hole that can only be controlled, reduced, or replaced by a massive uprising of the people, either peacefully, or violently.” -Ron Ewart

For ten years now we have written about all of the problems of government that have exploded in our faces and eaten away at our liberties with each passing day. The truth is, the bubble of freedom that we live under gets smaller and smaller and nothing has stopped the inexorable slide towards the final enslavement where government controls your lives and can do whatever they want to you with total immunity.

Last week we wrote of the Militarization of America and how the Posse Comitatus Act has been repealed by the expansion of the Insurrection Act, to the point where federal troops can show up on your doorstep with guns drawn, on the whim of the President. The problem is growing.

We have written of the wide-open borders that have led to millions of illegal aliens squatting on our doorstep and in our communities, while the American taxpayer gets to pay for the aliens’ education, transportation, food, lodging and medical care. Nothing happens. They just keep pouring across the border and government makes little or no attempt to stop it. In fact, government’s actions encourage it.

We have told of the rising power of the environmental lobby to the point where property rights are meaningless and there is no other law but environmental law. Violate environmental law and you will be severely fined or imprisoned on the smallest of charges. The EPA can charge you $75,000 a day per violation and no one calls them on their violation of the 8th Amendment. No change. It just gets worse and the EPA gets more powerful.

We have described the American judicial system as nothing more than a Good ‘Ole Boy’s club of the BAR, judges and attorneys and your rights are limited to what those judges and attorneys dictate. The court rules and legal precedent are paramount and override any semblance of justice. The Constitution means nothing in an American court of law. Courts just get more powerful and judges keep legislating from the bench, in violation of their oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.

In detail we have shown the unconscionable waste of your tax money in government-run programs where waste, fraud, abuse and corruption are the norm. The waste, fraud and abuse grow by the day.

We have written on numerous occasions of the perversion of the public school system from education to indoctrination. To give you a current example of just how corrupted it has become, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) has hatched a plan to take place in public schools all over America, in the name of anti-bullying. Last Friday, April 17, 2015 the “Day of Silence” was promoted in schools across the nation. The “Day of Silence” directs a child to attend school and be silent while in classrooms in support of homosexual rights. While bullying is the GLSEN format, their real motives seem focused on teaching our children about non-traditional life styles. Certainly bullying is bad, but this notorious “indoctrination” hardly qualifies for reading, writing and arithmetic. It’s just more social justice disguised as education.

Like so many others, we have taken on Obama Care and called it what it is ….. socialized medicine and an increase in government power over the masses. We have written about corporations, big business and unions. Thousands of conservative authors are doing what we are doing but government just grows and grows. Conservative radio talk show hosts ply the airways with the same messages to millions of listeners while government gets more powerful.

New politicians come on the scene promising to fix all those problems that devour our liberty and waste our tax money. But once in office, they are powerless to stop it because government has become an insatiable, run away, unstoppable, black hole of destruction that eats everything in its path, including our tax dollars and our ever-shrinking liberty. There appears to be no executive, legislative, or judicial fix to a government that has lost all restraint on, or limits to, its power. We can’t vote away the corruption and the rise in government power. We apparently can’t sue the government to reduce its power since government is immune to lawsuit and government owns the hopelessly corrupt court system. The three branches of government designed to limit government power by the Founding Fathers, now collude with each other to maintain or increase government power.

At every turn, the government, the news media, academia and the left vilify anyone who holds the belief that government has become a force AGAINST the people, not servants OF the people. Anyone who has researched the international banking cartels and the move towards one world government are besmirched and denigrated by these entities and labeled conspiracy theorists or smear merchants against the establishment. Patriots are even labeled potential domestic terrorists by the Department of Homeland Security.

In spite of what we are called, there is just too much evidence showing that the privileged elite and those that are in the inner circle of the privileged elite, are tightening the noose around the neck of once-free citizens. Anyone who raises their head above the noise level and takes the privileged class to task, are put down and labeled crackpots, or worse, hate mongers, homophobes, bigots and terrorists.

The fact is, there are way too many unconstitutional laws that have never been challenged in court and even if they were challenged, the court system would most likely rule against the challengers. The IRS is a prime example. Just ask Doreen Hendrickson how the IRS and the Courts treat those who dare to challenge the IRS code.

Government bureaucracies are literally out of control, making thousands of rules every day that the masses never hear of until they run afoul of them. Enforcement of these unconstitutional laws has increased to the point where we all now live in a virtual police state.

So who is going to stop it ladies and gentlemen? The President? The Congress? The U. S. Supreme Court? The voters? Don’t bet on it. These parties, even the voters, are all complicit in the usurpation of power away from the “Consent of the Governed” and the corruption surrounding this usurpation.

The mood in America is a tinderbox and its not coming from the have-nots. It’s coming from the haves that are sick and tired of funding a government that robs them of their production, property and individual rights, to buy votes from the have-nots and illegal aliens. Government has shaken the Champaign bottle too hard and there is a huge head putting pressure on the cork ….. ready to explode at any moment. Only God knows where it will end up unless the people start taking control of their own lives and take control of those who are trying to control, manage and restrict their lives.

Millions of Americans are mad and growing madder by the day. A response to one of our recent articles included this comment:

“Americans are seething right now and our Government has no idea how outraged people truly are in this country! I know a lot of veterans have told me that they are preparing for the coming fight! The divide in this country is as big as it was in 1860 with the states hating the Federal Governments meddling in their affairs. My fear is that there will be so much blood shed once this thing starts that it won’t stop until there is outright Civil War.”

Whether you like it or not, the people are the only ones that can make it right and it will only take a small fraction of the people to do it!

Evidence of the foul mood aimed at government raised its head at the Bundy Ranch in Nevada last year where a bunch of armed citizens FORCED THE HAND of the BLM(Government) and the BLM backed down. It wouldn’t do to have armed BLM storm troopers firing on citizens dressed in civilian clothes for all to see, now would it, even if they were carrying guns?

But it could happen again and soon. A similar battle is brewing with the BLM over mining rights in Southwestern Oregon and another Bundy Ranch scenario could be shaping up to FORCE THE HAND of the BLM (Government). Some Oath Keepers and militia are lining up on the sidelines just in case. (See)

Thomas Jefferson wrote, “What country can preserve (its) liberties if (its) rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?”

If patriotic Americans have any chance of winning this battle peacefully, they must be willing to FORCE THE HAND of government whenever and wherever the opportunity arises. The opportunities are everywhere and occur every day. People can FORCE THE HAND of government at school board meetings and local, county and state government commissioner or council hearings. They can get together in groups and challenge laws that are clearly unconstitutional. They can do it in court as well in what is called jury nullification. But FORCING THE HAND of government will only work if the people act as one, united in mind, spirit and principle ….. by the millions.

To get people to act as one, united in mind, spirit and principle, there must be a rallying cry and a set of principles. For the rallying cry to be effective, the people must rally around that set of principles in an open and notorious devotion to resistance to government, wherever and whenever. The rallying cry could be a “Declaration of Open Resistance.” We have such a Declaration on our website HERE. The Principles for a Free America are HERE.

But we have tried this before and only five (5) people signed the Declaration. That is five people ladies and gentlemen (out of the thousands of people that read our articles) that profess to preserve, protect and defend individual liberty and our Constitution. We thank those five for their uncommon courage.

So, we are going to try it one more time, with a slight modification to the Declaration. If the people truly want to FORCE THE HAND of government, they had better be willing to declare their intentions and what better way to do it than by signing our “Declaration of Open Resistance” petition and then make that petition go viral. E-mail the Petition and put it out on Facebook and Twitter.

It has been our experience that most of our readers won’t do anything. So it becomes a numbers game. It works out that somewhere between 0.1% to 1% of the people will sign on to an initiative. Consequently, if we wanted to get 1,000,000 people to sign our petition, it would have to reach at least 100,000,000 Americans. That would be ludicrous in a world without the Internet. However, if 1,000 people sent the petition to 10 people, the petition would reach 10,000 people. And if each of those 10,000 sent the petition to 10 people ….. Well you see where this is going. It could literally happen overnight ….. or not at all.

If you fear government, as most Americans do, nothing will happen and nothing has been happening in America to change the course it is on, for decades and decades. If truly determined, the people could change that course in five years or less, that is if they don’t fear government and are willing to FORCE GOVERNMENT’S HAND.

Just remember, the German people feared their government as well. History tells us the rest of that story. Freedom was in their hands and they turned their heads away out of fear and an estimated 70,000,000 people died. For God’s sake sign our Petition and show government you don’t fear it. Then do something about it. We are!

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OLDDOGS COMMENTS

TO

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I HAVE SENT YOU A COPY WITH MY SIGNATURE, NOW WE WILL SEE HOW MANY ARE WILLING TO DIE FOR THEIR FREEDOM!

A PDF version of the Declaration can be accessed by clicking on the image.
Feel free to print out the PDF form of the “Declaration”,
sign it yourself and send a blank form to other patriots.
Then send a signed copy to every politician, at every level of government.
Let’s make this “Declaration of Open Resistance” go viral.

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BY POPULAR DEMAND
We have created a petition of the
“DECLARATION OF OPEN RESISTANCE”
HERE

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THIS IS NOT AN ON-LINE PETITION
You must print out the petition and
physically sign it. Original signatures have a much
greater impact on politicians than on-line signatures.

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Won’t you join with us in this
“Declaration of Open Resistance”

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“A DECLARATION OF OPEN RESISTANCE AGAINST
UNCONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT ACTIONS”

(You can use the following for your own personal Declaration.)

        Whereas, for far too many decades, government, at all levels, operating almost virtually unrestrained by the U. S. Constitution and lobbied by socialists, radical environmentalists, special interests, corporations, bankers, unions and foreigners, has far exceeded its constitutional authority and has continuously assaulted or taken away our constitutional rights, as guaranteed and protected by the Declaration of Independence and the U. S. Constitution, and

        Whereas, all natural born or naturalized Americans are sovereign and free citizens of the United States of America and are only bound by the Constitution of the United States (and laws not in violation thereof) and by the Constitution of the state in which each individual resides, and

        Whereas, corrupt legislatures and bureaucrats, at all levels, in violation of their oath of office to preserve, protect and defend the U. S. Constitution, have, by lies and deceit, passed and are continuing to pass, voluminous, unreadable, incoherent acts, ordinances, regulations, restrictions, rules, edicts, laws and ratify treaties that are in direct violation of the strict and literal interpretation of our federal or state constitutions, pursuant to the intent of the framers of said constitutions, and

        Whereas, the President of the United States and the U. S. Congress have colluded with the United Nations to adopt UN resolutions and policies into American law without any treaty being debated and ratified by the Congress, in violation of the U. S. Constitution, and

        Whereas, the U. S. and state supreme courts have failed in their duty to literally interpret our Constitutions as the supreme law of the land and have inserted, in some cases, radical political, environmental, socialist, or international bias into their decisions, and

        Whereas, the net result of these acts by government, at all levels, is that all American citizens have lost many of their freedoms, their liberty and property rights, to the corrupt, unconscionable and unconstitutional violations of the supreme law of the land, at the hands of federal, state and local politicians, lawmakers and bureaucrats.

        NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that I, a lawful signatory to this petition and an independent, natural born, or naturalized, sovereign and free citizen of the United States of America, being of sound mind and body and of legal age, do hereby decree, ordain and affirm that I am not a slave, nor will I become a slave of the federal, state or local government, in any respect, or in any regard, and I will only be bound by the federal and state constitutions and by such laws that I interpret to not be in violation thereof, and

        BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that I will openly resist, by all peaceful means, and join others of like mind in a “Culture of Open Resistance”, against any attempts by the President of the United States, the U. S. Congress, federal or state bureaucracies, state legislatures and/or county or city councils, to violate my unalienable rights, as established by the Declaration of Independence and codified into law under the U. S. Constitution and the Constitution of the state in which I reside, and

        BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that I hereby place government, in all forms and at all levels, on notice that I stand ready to defend my sovereign, individual, natural, unalienable, God-given rights in open resistance by all legal means. I join others in this effort that are of one mind, spirit and principle on the true, unalienable foundation of liberty in this great country.

olddog@anationbeguiled.com

 

 

Trans-Pacific Partnership: Not About Free Trade

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STAFF NEWS & ANALYSIS

The TPP covers a bewildering range of topics. In addition to conventional trade issues like tariff rates, it includes language on labor rights, environmental laws, copyright and patent protections, e-commerce, state-owned enterprises, corruption, and government procurement.

Trade deals like the TPP have grown so complex because the global trade community has figured out how to solve a problem that has bedeviled philosophers and political leaders for centuries: how to craft international agreements with teeth. The WTO’s dispute-settlement process, which serves as a model for the TPP, puts pressure on countries to actually keep the promises they make in trade deals. That’s why everyone with an agenda — wealthy investors, drug companies, labor unions, environmental groups, and so on — is scrambling to get on the bandwagon.

But the complex, secretive, and anti-democratic way the TPP is being crafted rubs a lot of people the wrong way. The agreement will have profound and long-lasting effects on countries that sign on, yet voters in those countries won’t even be allowed to see the text until negotiations are over and it’s too late to make changes. No wonder so many groups — the AFL-CIO, civil liberties groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and even the free traders at the Cato Institute — have been raising concerns about it. – Vox.com, April 17, 2015 

Frederic Bastiat supposedly said, “When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will.” The quote is certainly true. Free trade between nation-states generally helps both sides prosper. It also reduces the chance of armed conflict. This is why libertarians like free trade.

As happens with other good ideas, people with ulterior motives like to hijack “free trade” and twist it for their own enrichment. Modern trade agreements have very little to do with free trade. As the quote above says, it covers a bewildering array of other topics.

This week Congress is considering a bill to give President Obama “Fast Track” negotiating authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. GOP representatives and senators are mostly for it, while Democrats are mostly against Fast Track.

Oddly, the same Republicans who won’t trust Obama to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran are ready to write him a blank check on the TPP. They’re fine with letting him reconfigure a huge chunk of the global economy. Why? Because TPP has a “free trade” façade around its much deeper market intrusions.

Think about this. If free trade between nations were really the objective, would we need document libraries and secret deals? Of course not. The agreement would only have to be a few pages long. “The governments of country x, y, and z agree not to impose tariffs or otherwise hinder trade between themselves.”

Free trade is simple. TPP is anything but simple. Therefore, TPP is not free trade.

Here is more from Vox.

As the opportunities for trade liberalization have dwindled, the nature of trade agreements has shifted. They’re no longer just about removing barriers to trade. They’ve become a mechanism for setting global economic rules more generally.

This trend is alarming to Simon Lester, a free trader at the Cato Institute. “We’ve added in these new issues that I’m skeptical of,” he says. “It’s not clear what the benefits are, and they cause a lot of controversy.”

And this system for setting global rules has some serious defects. We expect the laws that govern our economic lives will be made in a transparent, representative, and accountable fashion. The TPP negotiation process is none of these — it’s secretive, it’s dominated by powerful insiders, and it provides little opportunity for public input.

“A mechanism for setting global economic rules” is the opposite of free trade. The best rules are those set by a free market. Better yet, they are free and do not require secret negotiations.

The corporate defenders of crony capitalism and their toadies in the business press are trying hard to position TPP as a free trade agreement. It is nothing of the sort. It is selective free trade, with rewards for some and punishment for others.

If there were any doubt that the Republican Party is as anti-freedom as the Democrats are, its advocacy of TPP Fast Track ought to remove such doubt. Hopefully, their attempt will fail – but the fact that they tried tells us something.

OLDDOGS COMMENTS

Call your representatives and tell them in no uncertain terms you will launch an opposition party to their continuance in office if they give OBUMA fast track authority (TPA) on anything, and for them to vote no on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

LET THEM KNOW WE ARE AWARE

New Trade Promotion Authority Bill Imperils American Independence On April 16, 2015, a new Trade Promotion Authority bill was unveiled by the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee. These committees are expected to expedite this bill and report it out for a vote in the full House and Senate in the next few weeks. Votes on the bill could be delayed if there aren’t sufficient votes for passage at present. President Obama had asked Congress for “fast-track” Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) so that he can finish negotiating and sign two trade “partnership” agreements, one with eleven Pacific Rim nations known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and another with the European Union known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). We consider the introduction of the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill to be a very big deal. Arguably the biggest threat to the continued existence of the United States as an independent nation under the Constitution is the Obama administration’s current initiative to negotiate and get congressional approval of the TPP and TTIP agreements. These agreements would put our nation on the path to political integration with the other nations involved in these negotiations and are being promoted by the same organizations that destroyed the independence of 28 European nations with the creation of the European Union. And, since virtually everyone believes that the TPP and TTIP deals cannot be approved by Congress without a TPA bill in place, we must prevent congressional approval of TPA. We’re asking our members and all supporters of our national independence to phone their representative and senators now in strong opposition to the TPA bill. Much like how the European Coal and Steel Community, established by the Treaty of Paris in 1951, developed into what is today the European Union, the TPP and TTIP (if approved by Congress) would place the United States on a path towards becoming a member state in a Transpacific Union and a Transatlantic Union, respectively. See the TNA Special Report: How the Free Trade Agenda Is Knocking Down America for the extensive evidence for this. Please phone your representative and senators in opposition to the TPA bill on the basis that TPA would enable passage of the TPP and TTIP partnership agreements which threaten American independence. Phone calls are the most effective way to influence them. Click here for contact information for phoning your congressmen’s Washington and district offices. Also, for additional impact please send a pre-written, editable email to your congressmen on this issue. Be sure to personalize for maximum influence. Thanks. Your Friends at The John Birch Society P.S. Click here to view this email as an article at JBS.org.

”Stop TTIP”: Thousands of Activists Gather in Germany to Protest Corporate Trade Deal.

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By  Derrick Broze

Activists accumulated crosswise over Germany on Saturday to dissent the forthcoming exchange arrangement in Europe and the United States. Commentators fear the arrangement will disintegrate power and imperil different commercial ventures, including wellbeing and innovation. Supporters of the arrangement say it would bring $100 billion yearly for both sides of the arrangement.

Reuters reports that, “a late YouGov survey demonstrated that 43 percent of Germans feel TTIP would be terrible for the nation, contrasted with 26 percent who see it as positive.”

Around 1,500 activists formed a human chain in Berlin; from the Potsdamer Platz square, past the U.S. international safe haven and through the Brandenburg Gate to workplaces of the European Commission.

Coordinators in Munich estimated  a horde of 15,000 appeared for the walks. Hundreds more walked in Germany and crosswise over Europe for a “worldwide day of activity” against the TTIP. Dissenters said they were concerned in regards to reconnaissance, Internet opportunity, and hereditarily designed sustenance’s crawling into the EU.

The TTIP is the European form of a similarly combative understanding known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP has confronted waves of resistance throughout Europe. As reported by Common Dreams:

U.S. House and Senate pioneers reported Thursday evening that they have come to an arrangement on enactment, went for jamming the Trans Pacific Partnership through Congress.

The alleged Fast Track charge (The Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015, TPA-2015), which would make it simpler for President Barack Obama’s organization to arrange exchange bargains by keeping Congress from revising them, incorporates trade off procurements included a  request to “win over” Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the leading Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee.

The enactment is required to pass the Senate Finance Committee and arrive on the Senate floor one week from now. The House Ways and Means Committee will formally draft its form of the bill one week from now.

Much like “facilitated commerce understandings” of the past, the TPP will give corporate elements more energy to dodge responsibility inside the countries that work together. Don’t imagine it any other way, the TPP and TTIP are a piece of the process to take over the world by the Corporate-State complex.

What will it take for the populace of the world to hear the cries of the individuals who have awoken of the risks inside the TPP and the TTIP? The time nears for the stirred to take to the roads to teach our siblings and sisters about the risks that these exchange arrangements will cause. They don’t speak to the thoughts of the free individuals of the world. These understandings are basically the most recent in a long line of scandals sold to the oblivious (sleeping masses).

How about we take motivation from our companions in Germany. How about we take to the road and let the forces that-(wish-they-were) realize that we are focusing and we are no longer going to remain discrete.

The Transportation Stop Action Script.

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“Transportation Stop” Action Script.

TO BE PRACTICED AND MEMORIZED!!

If necessary, print this out and keep it in your car for easy reference, but it will more effective if you practice it and memorize it like you would for a part in a play. The more you practice the material the more easily it will

come to mind when needed and the more effectively you can assert your rights and protect them.

NEVER FORGET!! ALWAYS carry one or more audio/video recording devices with you into the public world. NEVER go out without them. Try to make sure that they are always charged or have good batteries as necessary. The moment you suspect that you are going to have an encounter with some public servant/official, then, TURN THEM ON AND START RECORDING!! Having a pen and notepad of some kind readily available for taking notes is also recommended. Write down any names and badge numbers you receive and use them accordingly. It is also recommended that if you have a cell phone in addition to other recording devices, then, you

ALSO call someone that can act as an audible witness to what is said during the encounter and possibly also record the conversation from their end as well. No matter what the officer says, DO NOT hang up the phone. If

necessary, LIE about who you have on the phone!! Tell the officer that it is your legal counsel on the line and you will not comply with any of his/her demands without proper legal advice from your counsel.

There is no law against being on the phone during such an encounter, nor is there any legal basis for an officer to threaten you or demand that you disconnect your call during the encounter. The idiotic claim that such a demand is related to “officer safety” is not a plausible basis for such demand.

What you say and do during a “transportation” stop can mean the difference between simply getting a citation (or not) and being released to continue on your way, or, being hauled off (illegally) to jail. These

questions and actions are specifically designed to protect both your physical being and your fundamentally protected rights. If you fail to follow these recommended procedures then you should not be surprised when

things do not go the way you want them to. Ignore these procedures at your own peril.

YOU must control the information exchange and your own emotional state. Do not allow yourself to become flustered, frustrated, afraid, or angry. Maintain your composure and speak in a calm and collected voice and

manner at all times. You want the video evidence to show that if anyone lost self-control during the encounter it was the officer(s) and not you. It is also important that you ask anyone else that may be with you to remain silent and to say and do nothing except as described herein. If they are unfamiliar with these concepts and procedures then it would be a good idea for you to either educate them on these concepts and procedures or simply don’t have them with you. Someone else can get you into just as many problems as you can yourself if they say or do things other than as described herein.

While I am aware that there is the ability to say less just as effectively, I believe that we should be working toward ending these abuses and behavior by our public servants by making a record that would allow us to take action against those of them that refuse to honor and obey our rights, their oath of office, and the limits of their power and authority. This script is intended to assist you in making a viable record that can be used in a lawsuit against these public servants in state and federal court. If you can get THEM talking about the violations they are perpetrating and their knowing and willful intent to commit those violations, then, a jury is much more likely to find in your favor when the officer(s) stand condemned from their own mouths and recordings.

Do’s and Don’ts:

Do remember that an officer is REQUIRED to read you your rights before questioning or searching you if they have placed you in a custodial arrest. In Texas you ARE ALWAYS in a custodial arrest when stopped for an alleged “traffic offense” (see Secs. 543.001-.009, Texas Transp. Code). The reading of your rights is a mandatory requirement that works in your favor unless/until you behave stupidly by talking voluntarily (see Art. 38.22, Texas Code of Crim. Proc.). Be aware, however, they almost NEVER do this, meaning that anything incriminating that you may say or that they may find can be suppressed as an involuntary or coerced statement or illegal warrantless search and seizure. You should also be aware that the officer(s) is/are trained to lie about you being in a custodial arrest and will most likely say instead that you are in an “investigative detention.” If you are in Texas (and most other “states”), then understand that this is a TOTAL LIE! You almost always ARE in a full-blown custodial arrest (see Legal Equation illustration below).

Don’t EVER answer an officer’s questions. You have the right to remain “silent,” so USE IT!

However, being “silent” DOES NOT mean to suddenly become a DEAF MUTE! It simply means that you are NOT to provide ANY information or documents in response to the officer’s demands or questions.

Invoke your fundamentally protected right to remain “silent” and to assistance of counsel, and then simply refuse to waive them, which you will do if you comply with the officer’s demands. The foremost thing to remember in these situations is to NOT engage the officer(s) in idle conversation, dialog, or chitchat.

It is important that the ONLY things you say to the officer(s) are specifically directed at the preservation and protection of your fundamentally protected rights, and nothing else. This is known as my self-imposed rule of “invoke, demand, protect.” Once you have invoked these rights NEVER waive or abandon them by ignoring these recommended procedures. Questions like “Where are you coming from?”, “Where are you going?”, “Who are you meeting?” have NOTHING to do with a “transportation

stop.” They are used simply to get additional information that may allow the officer to continue his witch hunt and escalate the severity of the charge(s) he might make against you. Also, NEVER answer questions

like “Do you know why I pulled you over?” or “Are you aware that you …?” Stop helping him screw you over! don’t answer these questions!! Remember the cardinal rule about talking freely, SHUT UP, KEEP SHUTTING UP, and when you have done that, SHUT UP SOME MORE!!

Whatever you say CAN and WILL be used against you in a court of law, so SHUT UP unless you are doing or saying something specified in this script!

Do rember to roll up ALL of your windows and to lock your doors whenever you get pulled over, and don’t ever open them or get out. That being said, MY personal habit, on warm and sunny days, has always been to carefully but quickly exit the car (keeping my hands in plain view) BEFORE the officer

can prevent me from doing so, while simultaneously locking my doors, throwing the keys into the front seat, and closing the door. Doing this removes the possibility of you having access to any form of weapon

that may be inside the car and could be used to injure the officer(s). In this way the officer no longer has the legal ability or excuse to conduct a warrantless search of your car, even if they tow it. Remember to

keep a spare door key in your wallet, pocket, or purse if you do this. However, if it is freezing cold and/or pouring down rain, remain in your car and let the officer stand outside for as long as he likes in order to

conduct his unlawful and illegal witch hunt while you take your time in following this script.

Don’t EVER roll down more than one (1) window at a time if you remain in your car during the stop, no matter what the officer(s) tell you to do. This eliminates the possibility of an officer fabricating an opportunity to escalate the stop by saying that the resulting cross-breeze allowed him/her to smell

something. If you must open a different window then be certain that you have closed all other windows before doing so.

Don’t EVER roll down your one open window more than two and a-half (2.5) inches, no matter what the officer(s) tell you to do, and for the same reasons as stated above. Just say “I can hear you fine officer and I am most comfortable with the window at its current level, thank you.”

Don’t EVER provide an officer with any documents or other information that they demand. The legal ramifications to your fundamentally protected rights are devastating.

Don’t EVER give your consent to an officer to search your car for any reason. You are just asking to have incriminating evidence planted or discovered that could be used to criminally charge you, and it

won’t matter if you knew it was there or not, YOU CONSENTED TO THE WARRANLTESS SEARCH!!

DON’T BE AN IDIOT!! Don’t let them threaten or coerce you into waiving this right because it also attaches to the waiver of other important fundamental rights that are essential to your legal wellbeing.

Even if they threaten to have a canine unit report to the scene you must not waive this right. Tell the  officer “I do not consent to being detained by you for any additional time or other purposes. Am I free to go or are you going to continue to illegally falsely imprison me beyond the time needed to conclude this stop?”

JUST SAY NO TO WARRANTLESS SEARCHES!!

Officers will almost always insist that you are NOT under custodial arrest, but rather are simply being “detained” or are part of an “investigative detention.” This is a blatant lie most of the time. No officer has the authority to simply walk up and demand that you answer questions, produce ID, or provide them with your private information, verbally or otherwise. Be aware, however, that when you won’t submit and give them your information, their favorite tactic is to threaten to charge you with “Failure to Identify.” However, in Texas law (Sec. 38.02, Penal Code) you can be charged with “Failure to Identify”

ONLY if you have ALREADY been lawfully arrested for some other offense, or, you are being lawfully detained for questioning in a criminal investigation, and then ONLY under the following conditions and

circumstances; in either case you are required to give ONLY your name, address, and DOB, nothing more; in the case of already being lawfully arrested for some other offense, you cannot refuse to provide

these three things; in the case of being lawfully detained, you cannot provide false responses for these three things, but you CAN refuse to provide them at all. You can provide this information verbally (Texas). There is no law in Texas that requires that it be presented on some form of physical ID or document, nor could there be (anywhere USA) because there is not and cannot be a valid law that requires and compels a private individual to obtain and carry a state or federally issued form of ID.

WARNING!

It is of the utmost importance that you understand the true nature and purpose of a “transportation” stop.

The goal of every enforcement officer nationwide is to create a situation that culminates in one of two scenarios, (1) a DUI bust, or (2) a drug bust. This is ALWAYS the goal. It is NEVER about “public safety.” It is always about

maximizing the potential charges against an individual and the revenue that a conviction on those charges generates.

STOP HELPING “THEM” SET YOU UP FOR A FALL!

Also, DO NOT attempt to “educate” the officer(s) about what they can and cannot do or the law associated with “transportation” or the Code of Criminal Procedure. Register your verbal objection to their actions for the

record by following the procedures below. Napoleon had it right when he said “Never interrupt your enemy while he is busy making mistakes.” Learn from this wisdom or you WILL make your own “fatal mistakes.”

Once you know the officer(s) name(s) and badge number(s) use them both together as often as practicable as shown in these procedures. Make him/them aware that they are being directly associated with any unlawful and illegal acts or violations of your fundamentally protected rights in which they might otherwise engage during this encounter. While it is not fatal to the situation if you fail to do so, it is relatively important that you try to do things in the order and verbiage presented below.

REMINDER: It is important that the only things you say to the officer(s) are specifically directed at the reservation and protection of your fundamentally protected rights and nothing else. Once you have invoked

your rights NEVER waive or abandon them by ignoring the recommended procedures listed above and below.

Simply repeat the verbiage in items 1 & 2 as necessary for each new officer you speak with.

NOTE: Sub-items 2(a)-(c) are optional, but are also potentially useful during the discovery process if the claim is made later that the officer’s equipment was “malfunctioning” during the encounter. Bear in mind that these questions and statements by you are VERY important to the record you are trying to build, try to remember this and use them accordingly.

(1) For the record, may I get your name and badge number please?

(2) Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, is there a recording being made of this encounter?

1. Is that recording comprised of both audio and video?
2. Are you relatively certain that your recording equipment is functioning properly for the purposes of making this recording?
3. Is your body microphone and camera, if any, turned on and functioning properly to the best of your knowledge?

(3) Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, what is the emergency and how can I help?

(4) Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, what facts or information are you alleging gave you probable cause to stop and accost me?

(5) Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, do you have a properly signed and issued warrant authorizing you to search me or my property?

1. (IF YES) Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, do you currently have that alleged warrant in your possession, if so I would like to see it please?

(6) Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, do you have a properly signed and issued warrant of

arrest that accurately describes or names me as the person to be arrested?

1. (IF YES) Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, do you currently have that alleged warrant in your possession, if so I would like to see it please?

(7) For the record, I am not “operating” in a “for hire” capacity by engaging in any form of “transportation” or other commercial use of the highways. Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, please acknowledge that you have been so informed.

(8) Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, am I under custodial arrest?

(9) If I am not under custodial arrest then am I free to go?

(10) Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, what is the articulable probable cause that leads you to believe that I have committed or am about to commit a crime that authorizes you to stop and detain or arrest me?

(11) For the record Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, in order to protect my rights and not waive any by error or accident, I wish to clarify my legal understanding of the situation:

1. You said that I am not free to go, so I must conclude that I am in a custodial arrest and not simply an investigative detention.
2. Therefore, I am invoking all of my fundamentally protected rights, including my right to remain silent and my right to assistance of counsel.
3. From this point forward I do not consent to providing you with any information or documents that could or will be used against me in a court of law or to possibly incriminate me, so please do not ask me to produce anything and give it to you.
4. From this point forward please do not ask me to answer any questions or to perform any form of test relating to any matter whatsoever without my attorney present.
5. Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, do you intend to harm, injure, or punish me by any method of assault, arrest and/or incarceration because I have invoked these fundamentally protected rights?

Understand this, when you refuse to produce the demanded documents or to answer any questions, the officer is going to begin to get upset and continuously state that “… the law REQUIRES that you produce a

driver’s license and other information on demand of a law enforcement officer.” They are also prone to falsely accusing you of obstructing or interfering with a public duty/officer or just outright threatening to

commit acts of violence against you and/or your property. DON’T FALL FOR THIS, IT IS A SCARE TACTIC! Invoking and refusing to waive your fundamental rights is not and cannot be converted into a crime.

And if they DO arrest and charge you falsely for interfering/obstructing then you get to sue the crap out of them. Just remember, when the officer(s) continue to demand that you produce a license, registration, proof of financial responsibility, or any other information or document(s), despite their threats, repeat the following ad nauseum:

(12) For the record Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, no law is valid if it requires me in any way to waive any fundamentally protected right in order to exercise any other right or alleged privilege. And no law can convert the free exercise of any right into a crime. I have repeatedly

informed you that I choose not to waive any of my fundamentally protected rights.

(13) So, I ask you again Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, do you intend to harm, injure, steal my property, or otherwise punish me for invoking my fundamentally protected rights?

WARNING: Be prepared for the officer to do or threaten precisely that, and they usually start by threatening you with all manner of unpleasantries, including falsified criminal charges. You only need to use sub-item “a” once on the first officer that threatens you. When s/he/they begin(s) to do so,

state the following:

1. Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, due to your attitude, demeanor, and your continuous threats to falsify charges and commit acts of violence against me and my property while displaying a deadly weapon, I feel physically threatened and in fear for my life. I demand that you cease and desist and request the immediate presence of a supervisor. I do not consent to any of your actions, the use of force against me or my property, or to being forced to exit my car for any purpose, especially so that you may attempt to steal my property and/or assault, injure or kill me.

(14) Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, you are fully aware that I have already invoked my fundamentally protected right to remain silent and my right to assistance of counsel. Do you intend to continue in your unlawful efforts to violate my rights?

1. It is my belief that the information you are demanding may possibly be used against me in a court

of law or in an attempt to incriminate me.

1. And if that is so, then, upon the advice of legal counsel I must respectfully decline to provide you with any information or evidence that possibly can or would be used against me for those purposes.

(15) Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, I am asking you again, do you intend to continue to deny me in my rights and to falsely imprison me or am I free to go?

WARNING: Be certain to keep your face as far away from the window opening as possible while sitting normally. Never exhale or speak directly into the opening or toward the officer(s) face(s). Doing so will almost certainly result in the following scenario. Read the Do’s and Don’ts to better

understand why.

If the officer makes any statement making a direct accusation against you or directed toward escalating the stop to the status of a DUI or drug bust situation, and they almost certainly will, you MUST be prepared to

rebut it INSTANTLY. If any officer makes ANY statement resembling either of the following, BEWARE and immediately respond accordingly!!

OFFICER: “Sir/Ma’am, I smell alcohol/marijuana and I am going to have to ask you to step out of the vehicle.”; or “Sir/Ma’am, are you aware that you ( allegedly did something ) and I am going to have to ask you to step out of the vehicle.” (Be sure that s/he IS lying in this case.)

16) YOU: Officer _____________ Badge/ID # ________, your statement is patently false and an outright lie. Are you now trying to fabricate probable cause by making false statements into the record and false allegations against me?

1. Even if they threaten to have a canine unit report to the scene or to break out your windows you must not waive your fundamentally protected rights out of fear. Tell the officer “I do not consent to being detained for any additional time or other purposes. Am I free to go or are you going to

continue to illegally terrorize, threaten and falsely imprison me beyond the time needed to conclude this alleged “transportation stop?”

Repeat steps 12 – 16a as required for each new or continued demand or threat imposed by the officer(s).

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Why “Tao” of Law? “Tao” is a Chinese word loosely meaning “way” or “path.” Most accurately, Tao is not a name for a thing; rather, it is the underlying natural order and principles of the universe. Thus, Tao of Law’s goal is to teach not only true law, but also the underlying and guiding principles of law that the modern court system, judges, police officers, politicians, legislators – and even We the People – seem to have long forgotten.

Tao of Law is being built in two phases. All of the features, functions and tools that will be available when Tao of Law is initially launched are outlined below in Phase-I. Even more (and more revolutionary) features, functions and tools are planned for addition under Phase-II (see below), based on popularity, usage and financial support of the Phase-I features, functions and tools.

Meanwhile, some free resources are currently available here: Eddie Craig’s  Traffic Stop Practice Script , which will help you establish and maintain your rights during traffic stops and other encounters with police, and his Cross-Examination Practice Script , which will guide you through cross-examination in court. You can also grab a copy of Eddie’s  materials discussed on the April 4, 2013 Alex Jones Nightly News (382KB zip file).   If you have received a red-light camera ticket, have a look at the Red Light Camera Special Appearance Lettertemplate.

Real-Time Audio-Visual Conferencing Center

Our Real-Time Audio-Visual Conferencing Center will enable our members to communicate in real time via audio and video, give presentations and slide-shows, participate in whiteboard sharing, share their desktops and more. Conferences can be recorded for playback at a later time and for sharing with others who may have missed that important conference. Members can create conferences open to all who wish to join or private conferences only for a specific list of members. These conferences can be created on the fly or scheduled for a future time. Conference invitations and automated reminders can be sent via e-mail, and members will be additionally informed of any accessible scheduled conferences via our Event Calendar. Our members can conduct or participate in discussions of court cases, practice/role-playing sessions and more!

Online Classes, Seminars and Consultation

Despite the growing popularity of the Tao of Law classes and seminars, many individuals have expressed a desire to attend along with an inability to do so based on scheduling conflicts, travel distances and other reasons. The Tao of Law website aims to rectify this by making classes, seminars, private consultations and more available via our Real-Time Audio-Visual Conferencing Center:

• No longer will our students or prospective students be prevented from attendance due to distance as they will be able to participate right from their computers.
• Any potential scheduling conflicts will be solved as well because our classes and seminars will be automatically recorded and made available for students to review at their convenience.
• Class/seminar materials, updates and extras will be made available to our students for direct download the moment they are published.
• Invitations and automated e-mail reminders for classes/seminars will be sent to each student, and upcoming classes/seminars will appear on our Event Calendar.

Never again will our students be forced to miss a class, seminar, update or extra based on travel distances or scheduling conflicts (or forgetfulness)!

Court-Watch Groups

Members will be able to create, invite, manage, and participate in localized groups encompassing specific cities or areas of cities in order to obtain and give support to and act as witnesses for fellow group members who are attending court.

For example, if you have an upcoming hearing in, say, an Austin, Texas court and are a member of the Austin Court-Watch group, you will be able to post your hearing date and time, the location of the court, case number, case type, and other pertinent information, to the group. When you do so, the other members of the group will be automatically notified of your hearing and its details via automatic e-mail invitations and reminders, and the information you post will be automatically added to the group’s Event Calendar. Members who receive invitations to your hearing or who see your hearing on the Event Calendar will be able to indicate whether or not they plan to attend your hearing with you, and you will be notified of any such planned attendees.

What does all of this mean? It means the end of “going it alone” in court!

Custom Groups

Members will be able to create, invite, manage, and participate in customizable groups to organize virtually any type of event or gathering, and can encompass any geographical area from a single location, to neighborhoods, to the entire nation. These groups can be open to the public or only to a specific list of invited members. As with the Court-Watch groups above, members of a Custom Group will be notified via automatic e-mail invitations and reminders of any events scheduled for that group, with such events also appearing in the group’s Event Calendar, and members of that group will be able to indicate whether or not they plan to attend the event.

Interactive, Personalized Event Calendar

Our Event Calendar will display and keep members informed of any type of event posted around Tao of Law. Members will be able to click on any event shown and be taken directly to that event and given all information pertinent to that event. Members who created/on a particular event will be able to reschedule, remove or edit the details of the event. The events displayed on the Event Calendar will include:

• classes, seminars, consultations and public and private conferences scheduled by members for our Real-Time Audio-Visual Conferencing Center;
• court appearances and hearings posted to a Court-Watch group;
• meetings, gatherings and other events posted to a Custom-group; and
• special events scheduled by Tao of Law instructors and administrators.

Rule of Law Radio Show Archive Access

Tao of Law will provide members with direct, instant access to archives of past Rule of Law Radio broadcasts.

Tyranny Alert

Our Tyranny Alert system will enable members being accosted by rogue public servants to send, right from their cell phones, distress calls, audio and video streams and GPS coordinates to other members’ cell phones, and to receive from those other members a list of who is responding to the scene and estimated time of arrival for each en route respondent.

Members who receive distress calls will be able to, right from their cell phones, indicate whether or not they are responding to the scene, monitor the audio /video stream of their fellow member in distress, view the location of the distressed member on a map and get turn-by-turn directions to the exact location of the distressed member.

Chat Room

Our public text-based chat room will allow members to gather together to discuss court cases, important events, Tao of Law classes and seminars – or to just kill some time, relax, socialize and get to know one another.

Tao Community

Tao Community, a sub-site of Tao of Law, will be a social networking site similar to Facebook or MySpace (but without a blitzkrieg of advertising and government tie-ins). Among many other things, the Tao Community will allow members to (within the Terms of Service):

• create personal profiles and say whatever they like about themselves;
• create tags to label and follow their interests, and connect with other members sharing similar interests;
• re-share posts and spread the ideas;
• give other members honorable mention;
• show that they appreciate something by “loving” it;
• share things with specific groups of other members or with the entire Tao Community;
• connect their profiles with, and cross-post to, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, to stay connected with their friends, even if those friends are not members of the Tao Community;
• create “bookmarklets” to discover fun and helpful content around the web and share it with whomever; and
• upload and share photos with whomever they please.

Public Servant Information and Statistics

Tao of Law members will be able to post information about their encounters with police officers, judges and other public servants, and the posted information, along with information submitted our Automated Document Generation Engine and Tyranny Alert system, will be aggregated into searchable reports and statistics on those public servants.

Case Information, Statistics, Analysis and Commentary

Tao of Law members will be able to post their court cases and documents, and create writeups about their cases. Tao of Law instructors and assistants will be able to post analyses and commentary on the cases, and the win/loss ratio of posted cases will be available site-wide.

Tao Library

Our Tao Library will give members a flexible search engine for, and instant access to, resources and information, including:

• class/seminar materials;
• legal white papers;
• law and statutes; and
• case law.

TaoWIKI

TaoWIKI aims to be a powerful informational and research base that collects and links to information and documents collected from around the Tao of Law website, including, but not limited to, blogs and posts in the Tao Community, posted case information, documents from the Tao Library and information submitted to our Automated Document Generation Engine.

Automated Document Generation Engine

Our Automated Document Generation Engine will enable members to answer basic form questions and generate documents custom-suited to their needs, including:

• judicial misconduct complaints;
• attorney bar grievances;
• court clerk complaints;
• court reporter complaints; and
• state and federal criminal affidavits

Forms and Templates Repository

Our Forms and Templates Repository will be, in essence, a searchable library of legal forms and templates, instantly-accessible and downloadable by our members, for motions, briefs, affidavits, notices and other documents commonly used in any court-related process.

 

China Takes Aim At Dollar Reserve Status: Promotes Yuan In Investment Bank

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-15/china-takes-aim-dollar-reserve-status-promotes-yuan-new-bank

By Tyler Durden

As regular readers know, we’ve variously described the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as representing both an attempt by China to cement its regional dominance by implicitly adopting a sino-Monroe Doctrine, as indicative of Beijing’s desire to supplant to US-dominated multinational institutions that have been a fixture of the post WWII economic world order, and, perhaps most importantly, as a not-so-subtle indication that dollar hegemony may be on the way out and yuan hegemony may be around the corner.

Essentially the AIIB will (either intentionally or unintentionally depending on who you believe) serve as an instrument of Chinese foreign policy and any hope of keeping this between the people who are privy to the country’s various hidden agendas (because all countries have agendas), went out the window early last month when the UK staged a coup by breaking with Washington and joining the development bank triggering a flood of applications from Western countries and culminating in membership bids from US “allies” Australia, Israel, and even Canada. Adding insult to injury, the AIIB is now looking to hire officials away from the World Bank and rival ADB.

Amid the March membership frenzy, Beijing sought to play down the degree to which the venture would serve to help establish a new world economic order with China at the helm. An article which appeared in The Global Times (a paper run by the state-controlled People’s Daily) very specifically denied any notion that China has designed on establishing a yuan-based global economic system. Here’s an excerpt:

The establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has been depicted by a few overseas media outlets as if China is building its own version of the Bretton Woods system...

Some foreign observers claim that the AIIB is the beginning of the Chinese yuan’s hegemony. What they are actually trying to imply is that “China is another US.”

This kind of statement is nonsensical, which uses historical experience to fool readers. It is divorced from the truth and shows no common sense and doesn’t stand up to any scrutiny. 

Through the Bretton Woods system, the US was able to wield supreme influence over its allies which had been severely battered during the war. China today is in a totally different position. 

The AIIB will not confront the WB or IMF, nor will it turn the current international monetary order upside down. The spirit of the AIIB is diversity and justice. 

Perhaps, but as we noted at the time, it was on the very same day that the following came across the wires: “China plans to push for yuan to take prominence in loans under the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Silk Road Fund, people familiar with the matter said. China may encourage $100b AIIB and $40b Silk Road Fund to issue loans directly in yuan or set up yuan-denominated funds under the two institutions, according to the people, who ask not to be identified because deliberations are private.” This prompted us to suggest that “actions speak louder than words.”

Today, The South China Morning Post reports that the bank will establish an AIIB currency basket with China set to push for the yuan to take a prominent role and for “special currency funds” to be established in order to issue yuan-denominated loans through the fund. Here’s more:

Beijing will push for the yuan to be included in a basket of currencies used to denominate and settle loans from the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), according to think tank sources.

Beijing will also encourage the AIIB and the Silk Road Fund to set up special currency funds and issue yuan-denominated loans through both institutions, the sources said.

If the US dollar is used, it weakens China’s bid for the yuan to be a global currency.

The efforts are part of a drive to internationalise the Chinese currency and come as the International Monetary Fund prepares to discuss the possible inclusion of the yuan as its fifth reserve currency and as part of the basket that forms the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights.

The sources’ claims appeared to be confirmed by a state media report, which said that a basket of currencies called the “AIIB currency” would most likely be adopted as the bank’s currency of settlement… 

Hao Hong, chief economist and managing director of research at Bocom

International, said the AIIB’s grand vision for infrastructure investment came with challenges but China should do its best to establish the yuan as a currency for settlement and denomination.

“If the US dollar is used instead, it weakens China’s bid for the yuan to become a truly global currency and to challenge the hegemony of the US dollar,” Hong said.

Yifan Hu, chief economist with Haitong Securities International, said it would be too hard to reach a consensus on an AIIB currency basket…

“In my view, the US dollar will be used in the early stages of the AIIB, and then [the bank] will gradually move to a mix of the yuan and US dollar,” Hu said.

The sources said China would push for broader use of the yuan at the AIIB and the Silk Road Fund, as part of efforts to promote the yuan as an international currency…

The sources said that there was still a long way to go in the internationalisation of the yuan and the greenback would continue to dominate the global financial system for the next few years.

Yes, “for the next few years,” which really isn’t that long, especially when compared with how long the dollar has dominated the global economic order. Perhaps even more interesting — and more alarming for Washington — is that the move by China to expand the yuan’s influence via a fund that is now backed by nearly every major country on the planet save the US and Japan, comes just as petrodollar mecantilism, which has been perhaps the driving force behind dollar dominance for decades, crumbles in the face of slumping oil prices. As we’ve reported on several occasions, 2014 marked the first year in nearly two decades that oil producers’ petrodollar exports (i.e. the recycling of oil proceeds into USD assets) turned negative. In other words, falling oil prices mean producing nations are now removing liquidity from the system rather than adding it, a process Goldman estimates will sum to nearly $900 billion by 2018.

The combination of these two forces could serve to cause a dramatic shakeup in a world that heretofore functioned on a unilateral system, both politically and economically.

 

America’s Coming Crackup

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/36239/Nelson-Hultberg-Americas-Coming-Crackup/?uuid=6F80FACC-5056-9627-3C224900D5600C65

By Nelson Hultberg

Our government bankers print money today like loons in an asylum spew absurdity. Glib media shills lure us every night into a disgraceful indolence. And our corporations lust like spoiled children after mega-billions of illicit lucre. Cataclysm is coming.

No one with a minimal awareness of history, politics and proper economics today has faith that our society can continue much longer at its present level of government privilege and debt accumulation. There is a Grand Piper that must be paid, and he will manifest in any number of scenarios, none of which will be pleasant.

One thing is for sure: The next two decades are going to be tumultuous and tragic. The events that unfold will be far more radical than we dare envision today. Paradigms in banking, politics and philosophy will be overturned. Wrenching lifestyle shifts will be forced upon millions. Something akin to what happened in the Soviet Union after the fall of communism in 1991 will take place in America. Our ruling regime will collapse and bring Russian-style economic hardship to us all.

How exactly things unfold will depend upon whether the nation’s intelligentsia bring themselves to seriously question the shams of statism, or whether the government-media-academy triad is able to continue bamboozling them. What is extremely unnerving is that whoever wins this battle to control the destiny of our country will determine the fate of freedom on the planet for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. A monumental clash of ideology and propriety looms up ahead.

Why We Are Disintegrating as a Society

America’s dilemma is this: We are being propelled toward an Orwellian style despotism that’s purpose is to centralize government power in Washington, phase out American sovereignty and move our country as much as possible into subordination to the United Nations and eventually alignment with Canada, Mexico and Central America into a regional government. The world is moving toward the nightmare of Oceana, Eurasia and East Asia in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, which will extinguish freedom and merge mankind into a tyrannical egalitarianism.

Why is this happening? Such is the influential force of ideology. We are being destroyed because of what historian Clarence Carson called a “collectivist curvature of the mind” that took over our intellectuals back in the early twentieth century. This curvature of the mind functions as the grand fueling mechanism for the goals of government centralization and ending our national sovereignty.

It’s horrifying, but every year our schools form the “best and the brightest minds” into collectivist apparatchiks to go out in the world and work their way into the power centers of society. The schools do this via false teachings in philosophy, economics, political science and history. This “ideological indoctrination” teaches every new generation that capitalism is an evil, exploitative, racist, warmongering system and must be phased out of modern societies. It teaches that national sovereignty is anachronistic and must be given up. Such indoctrination is being done very subtly and sophisticatedly, but it is a powerful, pervasive theme instilled into all our children from the first grade on.

This is why we have so many bankers, corporate moguls, political statesmen, authors, pundits, artists, publishers and priests working today to undercut the country. Being “the best and the brightest,” they were taught in their youth that capitalist America is an evil nation. They, thus, have gone out and risen to positions of power with a globalist worldview that believes economic freedom can’t work in the modern day, that American sovereignty is an anachronism belonging to the nineteenth century. Since they are the nation’s intelligentsia, they are immensely influential. Their socialist-collectivist worldview is spread to the masses which then elect legislators sympathetic to such irrationality to Congress and the White House.

Making a Difference

All quite clear and horrifying. But how are we, as mere laymen with no access to national media or huge fortunes, to confront this destruction of freedom and sanity in America and throughout the West?

We must take a page from the story of the old man and the starfish. After a huge storm had brought a mini-tidal wave to his beach community one night, there were tens of thousands of starfish washed up on the shore that next morning. Amidst the masses of starfish the old man could be seen patiently picking them up and tossing them back into the sea. Along came a young lad in his twenties with green hair, eyebrow rings and a scornful face. He started laughing and mocked the old man with cynical derision. “You have to be crazy, old timer. You can’t possibly save those starfish; there’s thousands of them. You’re wasting your time, you fool. YOU CAN’T MAKE A DIFFERENCE!”

The old man looked up at the insolent youth and smiled. He then reached down and picked up one of the struggling starfish and winged it far out into the water, replying to his tormentor, “Made a difference with that one, didn’t I?”

Every one of us has to choose whether we will try to make a difference or give in to indifference. Will we fight to inform our neighbors or succumb to the easy road of apathy? Will we opt for principle or popularity? Will we succumb to the statist thugs on the far left, or fall for the anarchic screwballs on the far right? The “mean” of constitutional sanity beckons to the percipient among us. Will it survive the tumult ahead?

Not everyone, naturally, has the time and mental wherewithal to forcefully fight the “ideological indoctrination” destroying our country today. But many of us do. Our power lies in our minds and the strength of our personalities. We who possess this inner strength feel compelled to spread the word in any way we can for as long as we live. We feel compelled to wing as many starfish back to life as we can.

The apathetic and cynical will scorn all this as senseless, just as the green-haired youth did. They will choose to remain wards of the state and sanction their enslavers. This has always been the nature of most humans. When such wards see others fighting valiantly against seemingly insurmountable odds for the freedom they have scorned, they are subconsciously humiliated because they are not deep in the thick of the fight themselves. They have chosen to avoid the fight and sanction the tyrants who are destroying our way of life. Thus, they must find a way to salve their consciences. That way is to caustically mock the Davids who go up against the Goliaths, to smear the Rolands of Roncesvalles that history hands down to us as heroic exemplars.

A Diplomatic Nuisance

You the reader have a paramount decision to make regarding all this. It is High Noon for the cause of freedom. Will you fight with the heroic exemplars? If you choose to fight, then your first necessity is to become aware of WHAT is happening and WHY it is happening. That awareness can only be found via fervent curiosity and a commitment to the study of libertarian and conservative literature.

Your second duty is to emulate Paul Revere and warn all those in your sphere of influence. You do this by making a diplomatic nuisance of yourself, by pleasantly pestering your comrades to wake up to the elite’s usurpations growing by leaps and bounds in our lives. You do it by convincing them that there are grander values in life than shiny new SUVs and country club memberships. There is something called the American way of life that requires personal independence.

Time is short. Collectivism steals over us like crack cocaine filters into a ghetto. It devastates everything of worth in its path. All the stoic traditions of strength, all the great lessons of logic, all the revered truths of Nature that have been handed down to us throughout the centuries are being assailed. The weasel-tyrants and their unctuous lackeys have gained control of the intellectual, political and banking power centers of our country, but they can’t control the ultimate factor – the truth – because they can’t control our minds unless we let them. They can’t prohibit defiance. Solzhenitsyn showed us this. They can’t extend their enslavement UNLESS WE SANCTION IT!

What the elites fear is a populace with the strength of William Wallace fighting King Edward at Sterling Bridge in 1297, the daring of Washington’s band crossing the Delaware in the dead of winter. They fear those willing to fight for the original America. Up against such heady citizens, our collectivist tyrants will scatter like feeding jackals in face of approaching hunters. Our job is to build an army of such heady citizens.

You can help by joining the cause. Read the books of freedom and sound money, and pass them on as the early Americans did with Common Sense. Bring people to the website where you are reading this essay. Bring them to AFR’s website. Bring them to a state of urgency. Bring them to the truth of our Constitution and to the laws of Nature and Nature’s God. Nothing other than this kind of effort will suffice.

You cannot help truth and freedom by watching moronic TV shows at night. That is how the elites control you. They flood the airwaves with mindless entertainment. It’s today’s version of Brave New World‘s “soma for the masses.” Today’s TV is for zombies and dullards. The same applies to our movies. Next time you’re in the theater, look around you at all the hoi polloi stuffing their faces with popcorn and their psyches with over-the top-violence and trashy sex.

Aldous Huxley was the first to point out that modern totalitarian regimes leave the “activities of sex” alone, but regiment the “activities of production.” This allows those who are servile to think they are still free as they vote away their REAL freedom – their freedom to acquire and keep wealth, to associate with whom they please, to speak and worship as they please. Look around you. There are far more servile people in this human race than there are independent people. This is the reason why dictatorships dominate the history of man; the majority of humans want to be ruled. They want to relinquish their meaningful freedom; it requires too much self-assurance and grit.

Logic and History

The cause of America is the cause of REAL freedom. It won’t be found with the malefic forces of statism on the left, nor with the eccentric cults of anarchism on the right. Both are living death, a fool’s game for those devoid of the capacity to see the big picture, i.e., to see that the spectrum of reality is not two-poled, but three-poled with multifarious gradations and a golden mean of truth in between. The nature of human existence is complexity, wrapped up in mystery, contained in inconceivability, subsumed under the power of Truth. We will never create a free society by denying this and ignoring the results of logic and the record of history. This is what statists and anarchists do.

REAL freedom is impossible without a grasp of logic and a deep knowledge of history, which teach us that the cornerstones of freedom are equal rights, strictly limited government, gold money and self-reliant people. The statists violate logic and ignore history because they are callous brutes who place power above all and simply don’t care. The anarchists violate logic and ignore history because logic and history show their political system to be unworkable.

The truths we learn from logic and history are the disinfectants we must hurl into Washington’s swamp of political leeches that are sucking all verity from our lives. When the Washington leeches have so stultified our nation that ghastly ruin prevails throughout, then is when the crackup will commence. All readers should take note. A meltdown is coming; a revolution will follow.

We must make sure this revolution goes in the direction of the Founding Fathers, not in the direction of the statist left, nor in the direction of the anarchistic right. Statism and anarchism are like the AIDS virus; they will always be deadly to life. It is to Aristotle, Locke and Jefferson that we must turn. They will always be sustaining to life.

Nelson Hultberg is a freelance scholar/writer in Dallas, Texas and the Director of Americans for a Free Republic. Nelson’s articles have appeared in such publications as American Conservative, Insight, Liberty, The Freeman and The Dallas Morning News, as well as on numerous Internet sites. He is the author of The Golden Mean: Libertarian Politics, Conservative Values. Email: NelsHultberg (at) aol.com.

OLDDOGS COMMENTS

If this article does not stir your heart and mind, and make you commit to learn and work for your future freedom, all I can say is you are truly brain dead already. Do you not know instinctively that freedom from tyrannical governance is one of the few things worth dying for?

FDIC Plots a Bank Heist Involving YOUR Accounts

https://www.moneymetals.com/news/2015/04/15/fdic-plots-a-bank-heist-involving-your-accounts-000694?utm_source=Liberty_Headlines_Is_Giving_Your_Site_Free_Traffic_for_Now&AID=7236

There’s a new front opening up in the war on your wealth. If you haven’t heard yet of the “bail-in,” you will. Even if you have, you need to know the latest…

The bail-in is another weapon in the government’s arsenal of capital controls meant to reward Wall Street cronies and separate you from your money.

We’ve long been familiar with capital controls, such as daily limits on bank withdrawals. Add that to seven years of microscopic interest rates cannibalizing savers’ nest eggs combined with planned inflation stealing your money while you sleep. But unlike the drip-drip we’re used to, the bail-in will come upon you quickly, harshly, and with finality.

As the world faced a complete financial meltdown in 2008, Congress ponied up fresh taxpayer money – $800 billion for openers and trillions since – tobail-out favored banks and industries. Out-of-favor institutions were allowed to fail. Jobs, fortunes, and futures disappeared while unborn generations were saddled overnight with unpayable debt.

Congress and bankers noted the sharply disagreeable taxpayer reaction. So they recycled an old idea from the Great Depression’s playbook – next time, just steal bank depositors’ life savings.

That tried and true tactic took a new name: the bail-in. The easy part – the laws they needed had been in place for decades. But for added cover, they passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, a 1930’s-styled, bank heist blueprint with a feel-good name.

Those laws altogether say your money in your bank account in your name is not your money. Those laws say the bank owns your deposited money, not you.

Wait…what?

Court cases have upheld for decades that putting your money in savings, a CD, or other banking products means you’ve become an “unsecured creditor.”

Your deposit is actually an unsecured loan to the bank with all the problems of counterparty risk! Instead of being presented with collateral, you get an IOU that pays a pittance in interest, or in many cases nothing.

A busted bank doesn’t have to return your principal deposits. Unlike when YOU are the borrower and THE BANK is the lender, the bank didn’t tender you a lawyered up promissory note or offer you a lien on its assets. Legally speaking, you may as well have handed your money to a stranger in the alley.

“Unsecured creditor” means just what it says: “no security.”

As banks went belly up during the Great Depression, slaughtering depositors’ life savings, Congress offered reassurance that banks could be safe by creating the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC. For decades thereafter, careful depositors walked the tightrope of spreading their deposits among various banks to qualify for insurance protection.

Every depositor should now be aware of the FDIC’s congressional mandate to handle the next global economic meltdown. Readers can read that entire scheme here.

It’s not an easy read because it was never meant to be. Here are some notes that might help…

The Scheme’s Fine Print Reads: Bank Depositors Are Screwed

It’s a joint plan with the Bank of England. Bankers see the next meltdown again going global. The title accurately names the sole intended survivors – “Globally Active, Systemically Important Financial Institutions.” The document reveals a future meltdown was anticipated, discussed, and coordinated years before the publication date of December 10, 2012.

The language “top of the group” refers to creditors, stock holders, and bond holders. They are first in line for slaughter (p. ii, p. iii).

“Resolution tools” and “resolution powers” are used throughout the document. “…applying resolution tools to different parts of the group” means FDIC has authority to make it up as they go (p.1, para 3). “…resolution authorities must not be constrained in exercising discretion” means FDIC decisions carry absolute legal authority (p.1, para.4).

FDIC doesn’t like the word “save,” as in “save bad banks.” FDIC substitutes the word “resolve” 18 times.

And then there’s you, the “unsecured creditor.”

As it happens, “unsecured creditors” are quite important with the FDIC, appearing 11 times in the 18 page document. “…unsecured creditors should thus expect that their claims would be written down to reflect any losses that shareholders did not cover” means we’ll tell you how much you lost after we divvy up the take (p.6, para 12). That could also point to lowered insurance limits without notice, if any insurance is left at all.

“…it will take time for losses to be assessed for purposes of recapitalization” strongly hints at freezing any loot in accounts left behind (p.8, para 35).

Your consolation prize, if there’s one at all, might be some government-issued bank stock you can’t sell.

FDIC congratulates itself 9 times for not “exposing taxpayers,” never mentioning FDIC itself would be bankrupt after the first $50 billion in claims, leaving taxpayers to bail-out the very FDIC created in 1933 to shield their savings deposits. One single zombie bank could easily swallow $50 billion. Estimates of currently insured FDIC deposits exceed $6 trillion.

Bail-in Scheme Has Been Tested and Is Ready for Use

The bail-in ripoff scheme has been successfully tested. Depositors in Cyprus found their savings largely wiped out early in 2013. That infamous bail-in was a test run, leaving the U.S. government’s fingerprints all over Cyprus. It is significant to note Cypriot authorities claimed, on their website, the legal authority to change rules mid-stream at any time, just as the FDIC claims.

Low withdrawal limits stopped panicked depositors’ last minute bank runs. As banks stole their deposits, no citizens stormed banks with pitchforks, no guillotines were hauled into the village square. Bankers from Cyprus to New York congratulated themselves all around.

Poland quickly followed, stealing not bank accounts but private pension funds. Authorities took 50% of Polish retirement funds overnight with the click of a mouse.

Bail-in plans have been adopted by Canada, Australia, and throughout Europe for future use. The G-20, representing the twenty largest national economies, rubber stamped approval for global bail-ins late last year, as has the International Monetary Fund. Just last week, Austria suddenly dumped its version of FDIC insurance altogether.

Governments facing economic annihilation across the globe are now legally authorized to seize banking depositors’ savings, either all or in part, overnight, and without notice. The bail-in is a treasure map for bankers and governments at the next hint of worldwide economic calamity.

They know the next meltdown will be your grandfather’s Great Depression.

Unlike the 1930’s, there will be no point standing in long lines with hat in hand to ask for your money. By the time you hear the news, your money in the bank will already be gone.

MoneyMetals.com columnist Guy Christopher is a seasoned writer living on the Gulf Coast. A retired investigative journalist, published author, and former stockbroker, Christopher has taught college as an adjunct professor and is a veteran of the 101st Airborne in Vietnam.

 

The Defense Department: The Bible, Constitution, And Declaration Of Independence All Perpetuate Sexism

http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/13/defense-department-the-bible-constitution-and-declaration-of-independence-all-perpetuate-sexism/

BY ASHLEY RAE GOLDENBERG

According to a Defense Department-approved “sexism course,” the Bible, the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence all contribute to modern sexism.

Those three cherished texts all count as “historical influences that allow sexism to continue,” according to a presentation prepared by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, whose mission is to give a ”world-class human relations education.”

(Screen Shot of DEOMI “Sexism” course on 2015-04-07)

According to the course, the Bible has “quotes” which can be interpreted as sexist by readers.

The Declaration of Independence is also an historical cause of sexism, as the document refers only to ”all men” — not “men and women.”

And the Constitution, the Pentagon argues, is an historical source of sexism because “slaves and women were not included until later in history.”

Of course, members of the Armed Forces take an oath to defend the Constitution — which is, according to the DEOMI course, an “historical influence that allows sexism to continue.”

“The content of the lesson is provided to generate academic discussion concerning how these historical documents have been included in discussions about the topic of sexism,” Lt. Cmdr. Nate Christensen, a Defense Department spokesman, told The Daily Caller.

But following TheDC’s request for comment, the sexism course — as well as two other courses listed on DEOMI’s website, entitled “Prejudice & Discrimination” and “Racism” — were taken offline.

“This course is currently offline and under revision,” a notice says under all three courses.

(Screen Shot of DEOMI E-Learning Course Listing website on 2015-04-10 at 11.21.53 AM)

Asked about the sudden update, Christensen replied, “DEOMI online materials are periodically pulled to review to ensure accuracy and relevance. The racism, sexism and Prejudice & Discrimination are currently undergoing that review process.”

TheDC obtained copies of all three courses prior to their removal.

The “Prejudice & Discrimination” course was recently required for some Navy personnel who work in hospitals and clinics.

In the course, discrimination is divided into two categories: institutional and individual. Institutions can be a source of discrimination, as well as actions — or inaction — made by individuals.

Institutional discrimination, according to the DEOMI course, can be found in employment, education, housing and the military.

Examples of institutional discrimination in employment, according to DEOMI, are education requirements for employment:

(Screen Shot of DEOMI “Prejudice & Discrimination” course on 2015-04-07)

The course teaches, “Individuals who have been segregated to inferior schools cannot find employment in businesses that hire according to specified credentials that inferior schools do not offer.”

Therefore, when employers institute education qualifications for prospective employees, they are engaging in a form of discrimination.

The DEOMI states more examples of institutional discrimination can be found in education:

(Screen Shot of DEOMI “Prejudice & Discrimination” course on 2015-04-07)

Academic tests “may have inherent cultural bias,” the presentation argues.

Textbooks also perpetuate discrimination since they “provide little or no information on minority groups, especially minority histories and the contributions that minorities have made to American culture.”

DEOMI teaches students that they can also contribute to discrimination on an individual level.

The presentation asserts individuals can perpetrate discrimination through both active and inactive ways, including “refusing to acknowledge one’s own privilege.”

Active contributions to discrimination include verbal and physical assault, as well as “considering prejudices and discrimination to be a thing of a past.”

Inactive discrimination, according to DEOMI, includes failing to acknowledge personal “privilege.”

In the glossary provided by the course, “privilege” is defined as “a special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste.”

(Screen Shot of DEOMI “Prejudice & Discrimination” course on 2015-04-07)

By an individual refusing to believe that he is inherently better off than another person as a result of his race or gender, DEOMI teaches that the individual is engaging in an act of discrimination.

At the same time, it is also viewed as inactive discrimination if an individual believes “you have experienced and fully understand the oppression of the target group.”

In addition to the presentation on “Prejudice & Discrimination,” DEOMI offers a broader course on the topic of “Racism.”

In the “Racism” presentation, individuals are cautioned against using “antilocution” — or using phrases that could have a racial connotation.

The graphic which accompanies the slide lists an array of naughty words, including “white men can’t jump” and “Jew.”

According to the presentation, the Defense Department also bans the word ”Redskin” — pitting the Pentagon against its hometown NFL team.

(Screen Shot of DEOMI “Racism” course 2015-04-07)

Lt. Cmdr. Nate Christensen said information in the DEOMI courses accurately reflects Department of Defense policy: “The Department of Defense Office of Diversity Management and Equal Opportunity [ODMEO] in collaboration with the Military services review DEOMI’s education and training materials designed for Equal Opportunity Advisors [EOAs] to ensure that DoD policy is accurately reflected. DEOMI staff develops, in coordination with the ODMEO and the Military Services, standardized training templates to ensure only approved training materials are used during local training sessions.”

“While there is no DoD Policy that requires persons to take these online courses,” Christensen told TheDC, since 2011, 2,075 Department of Defense personnel took the “Sexism” course, 3,448 took the “Prejudice & Discrimination” course, and 3,028 took the “Racism” course.

Tags: Bible, Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Pentagon

 

CONGRESS NOT NEEDED OBAMA CAN BE ARRESTED FOR IMPERSONATING AN OFFICER!

http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2015/04/congress-not-needed-obama-can-be-arrested-for-impersonating-an-officer-2703924.html?currentSplittedPage=0

 By: Voice of Reason

(Before It’s News)

FINALLY! SOMEONE WHO GETS IT!

SINCE THAT OFFICE JUST HAPPENS TO THE PRESIDENCY HE HIJACKED…

[USING HIS FASLE CREDENTIALS]

GIVEN THE DAMAGE CAUSED, I HOPE HE IS GIVEN THE ULTIMATE PENALTY!

Obama must simply be arrested and prosecuted for impersonating a public officer. This can be done in Washington DC without involving Congress. Obama is in fact not allowed to be impeached.

As I have said in the past, if you are just now becoming familiar with the so called “Birther” issue as many like to call it, I suggest you look into the facts of the matter, not the nonsense spewed by Obama and his supporters. Plain and simple: No one spends MILLIONS hiding their past if there is nothing to hide. Furthermore, the “Birther” issue has been debunked.

It was LAW ENFORCEMENT, not Right-Wing Tea-Baggers who proved the birth certificate Obama presented was a fraud when they set out to SHUT UP the “Birthers” by proving the birth certificate was authentic. As it turns out, not only did Arpaio’s team prove the birth certificate is a fraud, it is a REALLY bad one from what they say.  

In addition to the “Birther” issue as it’s been known since 2008, there is the issue of Team Obama accidentally turning in THREE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT VERSIONS of his alleged birth certificate to Alabama in his run for President. Good luck getting liberals to conjure up anything that sounds even remotely intelligent to support that screw up. They won’t. You’ll be called a racist in minutes of beginning THAT debate. Recently the ALABAMA SUPREME COURT PUNTED ON THE ISSUE BY ESSENTIALLY RULING NOT TO RULE ON THE MATTER.

Many intervals of the “Birther” investigation are laid out in the post titled: ALABAMA SUPREME COURT PASSES THE BUCK, RULES “NO OPINION” IN OBAMA ELIGIBILITY CASE. I suggest taking a look. The most damning of the links in my opinion is: SHERIFF ARPAIO’S LEAD INVESTIGATOR DROPS BOMB ON WHITE HOUSE. At some point, even with liberals, common sense simply has to prevail. Sadly, the “Birther” issue is far from the minds of most conservatives these days.TREASON is a word heard much more frequently. The birth certificate is old news. 

BREAKING: THE WEEK OF 4/6

THE SAME JUDGE WHO HALTED OBAMA’S AMNESTY NOW HAS HIS HANDS ON 150 PAGES OF EVIDENCE THAT BARACK IS USING A STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER!

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Rick Wells writes: Dr. Orly Taitz is an attorney who has been leading the effort since the early days of the false Obama “presidency” to expose the fraud that has been perpetrated upon the American people by this Manchurian mystery man of unknown origin. She has been at the forefront of investigation, exposing and litigating his false identity and the endless cover-ups that surround it.

Atty Taitz has gone one step further, submitting the fraudulent social security number of Hussein Obama to Judge Andrew Hanen, the same judge who issued an injunction against the illegal dictatorial amnesty. Taitz has a case filed in July of 2014 which is also before Judge Hanen and which is further along in the legal process than the one filed by 26 states which was the source of the amnesty injunction.

Dr. Taitz issued an update on her website, informing the public about the status of latest effort to bring justice to the greatest fraud of all time. Included in that update was the following, potentially quite explosive revelation in light of what seems to be an honest judge undeterred by political influence or intimidation.

Taitz wrote:

I provided Judge Hanen with 150 pages of evidence, some of it under seal, which show that Barack Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, aka Barry Soebarkah is one of the individuals, who is using a stolen Social Security number, namely Connecticut number 042-68-4425, which was issued to Harry Bounel, resident of Connecticut, born in 1890.

Her complete April 2nd update on the action appears below:

Update on cases: How decision by Judge Hanen helped American workers and we are waiting to see if Judge Hanen will take on the issue of SSN fraud committed by Obama in light of his use of a stolen CT SSN and in light of massive SSN and IRS fraud that we see in relation to illegal immigration.

Barack Obama tried to provide his donors with cheap labor by his executive amnesty. Judge Hanen in Brownsville, Texas stopped  this executive amnesty through his injunction order. We are now seeing amazing positive results for American workers which are related to this order by Judge Hanen. As large corporations see that they will not be able to get cheap foreign labor, they are increasing salaries to keep American workers on the jobs. Shortly after the decision by Judge Hanen, Walmart announced salary increases for low wage workers from $7.25 to $9. This is about 25% increase. Pay increases will also affect higher paid workers. Now, TJ Maxx, Target and Mcdonalds are following in Walmart’s steps.

We are seeing increases in salaries of American workers across the board. This is happening because one judge had the strength of character to stop corruption and lawlessness of Obama regime. I would like to remind the readers that I was the first to file the amnesty challenge before Judge Hanen. I filed my case challenging DACA executive amnesty back in July of 2014. By the time 26 states filed their action, I already had 2 injunction hearings before Judge Hanen and got an order to show cause issued by Judge Hanen to Obama administration, to show cause why he shouldn’t rule in my favor.

Recently, I filed a motion seeking to amend the complaint and include new additional facts, namely the fact that many illegal aliens are using stolen identities, stolen Social Security numbers. I was one of the victims of identity theft as my SSN was stolen according to a written admission by the IRS. When I sought a copy of the fraudulent tax return and request for refund filed by the thief with the IRS, I was denied my request.

I could get the identity of the thief by the bank account number which the thief attached to his request  for a refund. By refusing the victims’ requests for fraudulent records filed under their names, IRS is aiding and abetting criminals. Further, Social Security administration is aiding and abetting criminals, when it refuses to provide copies of the original SSN applications when there is evidence of falsification and destruction of a computer record.

I provided Judge Hanen with 150 pages of evidence, some of it under seal, which show that Barack Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, aka Barry Soebarkah is one of the individuals, who is using a stolen Social Security number, namely Connecticut number 042-68-4425, which was issued to Harry Bounel, resident of Connecticut, born in 1890.

Rick Wells is a conservative writer who recognizes that our nation, our Constitution and our traditions are under a full scale assault from multiple threats. Please “Like” him on Facebook, “Follow” him on Twitter or visit www.rickwells.us

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• Lawyer Files Autopsy Request for Person Who Verified Birth Certificate
• Is President Obama Too Big To Jail?
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• Obama’s SSN: ‘Fraud & Treason By Acting Commissioner Of SSA
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• 200-300 Phony Citizenship Investigation Kits Handed Out on Capital Hill
• The Alabama Supreme Court May Collapse Obama’s House Of Cards
• Democratic Party Submits Different Version of Obama Birth Certificate!!!!
• Alabama Case On Obama Eligibility Nears State Supreme Court Decision
• British National Archives Show a Son Was Born to Obama Sr. in 1961 in Kenya
• Obama’s Kenyan Birth Certificate
• Florida Congressman Does Not Believe Obama is Legal
• Texas Congressman Assures His Folks Obama is Being Investigated!
• Oh Oh… Over 100 Pages of Documentation Found – Of Obama’s Kenyan Birth.
• “Impeach Obama” Campaign Sweeping The Nation
• Looks Like Sheriff Joe Arpaio Has More Good News – BOUT TIME
• Hawaii Elections Clerk: “OBAMA WAS NOT BORN HERE!”
• Obama Never Attended Columbia University Says “His” Graduating Class
• Whistleblower: Obama WAS an Indonesian Citizen & Given Financial Aid As Foreign Student At Occidental College

Of the Highest Reports:

 I never use the word “bastard” because one was born of parents not married. But when it comes to a person who has usurped a public office, e.g., the highest office of our nation, I do. OBAMA IS A BASTARD !!!

NOTE: All children born of parents who are not married are gifts from God and they are to be raised as such. They are not mistakes and punishments, as Obama claims in his argument to murder unborn children.

The fact is that Obama is illegitimate and any attempt to impeach him would be an unlawful attempt to validate his “presidency” — nothing can be done to validate him as “the President,” so he cannot be lawfully impeached. I don’t know if Michelle Bachmann is trying to open up discussion in Congress about whether Obama is a usurper, or if she is trying to validate his “presidency” and “laws,” “executive orders” and “appointments” he has signed, all of which are in fact void ab initio. If the House of Representatives unlawfully impeaches Obama, then they will also say that everything Obama has signed is legal. If the House acknowledges that Obama is a usurper and therefore cannot be impeached, they will for the first time be formally acknowledging the fact that Obama has usurped the Office of the President.

NOTE: Congress has been avoiding the word “usurper,” because they knew he was ineligible in 2008 and 2012 when they counted the electoral votes without objecting to his ineligibility. For the members of Congress to come to the conclusion now that Obama is a usurper would be like putting the rope around their own necks. So, I doubt that they will change direction now. I believe that if they unlawfully try to impeach Obama it will not be for usurpation, but some other reason. They want the American people to think they are working for and representing them, when in fact they are avoiding the fact that Obama is a usurper and therefore willfully violating our representative form of government. Has anyone here read the articles of impeachment filed by Michelle Bachmann? Is usurpation mentioned in the articles? Probably not.

Our Constitution specifically provides that a president can be impeached. It does NOT provide for the impeachment of a usurper. Obviously a usurper is NOT a president. Dr. Vieira in Thought Must Precede Action states:

“Although Mr. Obama may have succeeded in gaining physical access to the office-space a legitimate President of the United States occupies in the White House, he never acquired legal access to “the Office of President,” because, not being “a natural born Citizen,” he was never constitutionally eligible, and is not now eligible, for that “Office”. For Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution declares (in pertinent part) that “[n]o Person except a natural born Citizen * * * shall be eligible to the Office of President”. If words have any meaning, a “Person” whom the supreme law of the land declares not to be “eligible to the Office of President” can never “gain access to” that “Office” in the sense of legally holding it or asserting any claim to it.”

Definition of “Office”

“Office” is defined to be a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging.

NOTE: We know that Obama’s father was never an American citizen, so the evidence proves that Obama is not a natural born Citizen and therefore he does not have the right to be a president of the United States of America. We need go no further to prove that Barack Hussein Obama II was never constitutionally eligible, and is not now eligible for the “Office of the President.”

 

Article II, Section 1 clause 5 of our Constitution requires that a president have 100% natural allegiance to the United States.

Obama does not have the required allegiance.

The law does not apply the impeachment process for a usurper, but does provide for the arrest and prosecution of a usurper without involving Congress. The following is from Robert Christopher Laity, whose complaint of usurpation was denied for appeal by the U.S. Supreme Court, (i.e., “Certiorari Denied), which is what the Court says if it does not want to take the time for a case.

“According to U.S. Magistrate for the WDNY, Leslie Foschio, the USDC in DC is the proper venue to try Obama for usurpation. Ronald Machen, US Attorney for DC, however, has been evading the issue for years. Also see: DC Code 22-1404. Thus far there have been four complaints regarding Obama’s usurpation filed with the Washington DC Police Department — the last was filed on May 15, 2014.”

• 22-1404:

Whoever falsely represents himself or herself to be a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, notary public, police officer, or other public officer, or a minister qualified to celebrate marriage, and attempts to perform the duty or exercise the authority pertaining to any such office or character, or having been duly appointed to any of such offices shall knowingly attempt to act as any such officers after his or her appointment or commission has expired or he or she has been dismissed from such office, shall suffer imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than 1 year nor more than 3 years. In addition to any other penalty provided under this section, a person may be fined an amount not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01.

Definition of “Public Officer”

“Public officer” is defined as an individual who has been elected or appointed to exercise the functions of an office for the benefit of the public. The president or state governors, are public officers charged with the duty to ascertain that the law is enforced and obeyed.

NOTE: A case (appeal) I filed in the U.S. Supreme Court seventeen years ago regarding state government corruption in Alaska was also denied by the U.S. Supreme Court with “Certiorari Denied” even though I included the evidence proving that the state employees named as defendants were stealing 3 million dollars annually from the federal government, i.e., taking 3 million every year (taxpayers’ money) from the federal government to implement the Alaska Coastal Management Program (ACMP), but willfully violating the state and federal statutes for implementing the Program. It tells you much when you see the highest court in the nation rejecting a case involving serious government corruption. The corruption I complained of was state corruption, but now the U.S. Supreme Court in conspiring in the corruption. They willfully violate state and federal statutes so they can continue unlawfully disposing public waterfront lands with a negotiated contract—violating competitive bidding requirements. The same was being done with oil leases in Alaska, before I left. The mayor of Juneau, one of the defendants named, on a City of Juneau sidewalk threatened me by telling me that it would be in my best interest to leave town. Lawyers told me to watch carefully as I crossed the street.

How did such a case get dismissed in Alaska? The judge, Superior Court Judge Walter L. Carpenetti,“decided” that all of the thirty-six defendants were immune even though they were not permitted to make discretionary decisions on the disposal of public lands. The Alaska Supreme Court later decided that, because the waterfront land was not put up for competitive bid and that I, therefore, did not make a competitive bid for the land, that I had no way to prove that I would have won the bid — case “dismissed”. Guess who was then immediately appointed by the Democrat governor, Tony Knowles, and then later became the Chief Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court. If you guessed Walter L. Carpenetti, you guessed correctly.

TRESPASSER ON PUBLIC LANDS!

One young lawyer who had just moved to Juneau, came up to me on the street to tell me that all law students in law school know that they “Should never take a complaint of the wrongful actions of a wolf to a pack of wolves.” She also said, “They are not afraid of your bark, but of your bite.” She was absolutely right: I had complained of the wrongful actions of thirty-six wolves (ugly wolves) and although I did not know it at the time, I was complaining to a pack of wolves from the day I filed my complaint in the Juneau Superior Court.

If you file an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the wrongful actions of anyone who daily walks the halls of government, including those impersonating a public officer,  you will not receive justice: The Court is thoroughly corrupt. I found this out the hard way, after investing many years of my time and much money seeking justice for the American people and myself.

The woman seen above shaking Obama’s hand, Sonia Sotomayor, (thanking him for appointing her), is also a usurper—impersonating a justice in the Supreme Court.

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Americans Have Lost VIRTUALLY ALL of Our Constitutional Rights

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-10-17/americans-have-lost-virtually-all-our-constitutional-rights

By George Washington  George Washington’s blog

This post explains the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights – the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution – and provides a scorecard on the extent of the loss of each right.  (This is an updated version of an essay we wrote in February.  Unfortunately, a lot of information has come out since then.)

First Amendment

The 1st Amendment protects speech, religion, assembly and the press:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably toassemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The Supreme Court has also interpreted the First Amendment as protecting freedom of association.

However, the government is arresting those speaking out … and violently crushing peaceful assemblies which attempt to petition the government for redress.

A federal judge found that the law allowing indefinite detention of Americans without due process has a “chilling effect” on free speech. And see this and this.

There are also enacted laws allowing the secret service to arrest anyoneprotesting near the president or other designated folks (that might explain incidents like this).

Mass spying by the NSA violates our freedom of association.

The threat of being labeled a terrorist for exercising our First Amendment rightscertainly violates the First Amendment. The government is using laws to crush dissent, and it’s gotten so bad that even U.S. Supreme Court justices are sayingthat we are descending into tyranny.

For example, the following actions may get an American citizen living on U.S. soil labeled as a “suspected terrorist” today:

• Complaining about the taste of your tap water

• Being young (if you live near a battle zone, you are fair game; and see this)

• Using social media

• Reporting or doing journalism (and here and here)

• Having “strange odors”  or “bright colored stains on clothes” (what if you eat mustard or ketchup?)

• Speaking out against government policies

• Protesting anything (such as participating in the “Occupy” or “Tea Party”movements)

• Questioning war (even though war reduces our national security; and seethis)

• Criticizing the government’s targeting of innocent civilians with drones(although killing innocent civilians with drones is one of the main things which increases terrorism. And see this)

• Asking questions about pollution (even at a public Congressional hearing?)

• Paying cash at an Internet cafe

• Asking questions about Wall Street shenanigans

• Holding gold

• Creating alternative currencies

• Stocking up on more than 7 days of food (even though all Mormons are taught to stockpile food, and most Hawaiians store up on extra food)

• Having bumper stickers saying things like “Know Your Rights Or Lose Them”

• Investigating factory farming

• Infringing a copyright

• Taking pictures or videos

• Talking to police officers

• Wearing a hoodie

• Driving a van

• Writing on a piece of paper

• (Not having a Facebook account may soon be added)

And holding the following beliefs may also be considered grounds for suspected terrorism:

• Being frustrated with “mainstream ideologies”

• Valuing online privacy (and see this)

• Being a libertarian

• Liking the Founding Fathers

• Being a Christian

• Being anti-tax, anti-regulation or for the gold standard

• Being “reverent of individual liberty”

• Being “anti-nuclear”

• “Believe in conspiracy theories”

• “A belief that one’s personal and/or national “way of life” is under attack”

• “Impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)”

• “Insert religion into the political sphere”

• “Those who seek to politicize religion”

• “Supported political movements for autonomy”

• Being “anti-abortion”

• Being “anti-Catholic”

• Being “anti-global”

• “Suspicious of centralized federal authority”

• “Fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)”

• “A belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in … survivalism”

• Opposing genetically engineered food

• Opposing surveillance

Of course, Muslims are more or less subject to a separate system of justice in America.

And 1st Amendment rights are especially chilled when power has become so concentrated that the same agency which spies on all Americans also decideswho should be assassinated.

Second Amendment

The 2nd 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.

Gun control and gun rights advocates obviously have very different views about whether guns are a force for violence or for good.

But even a top liberal Constitutional law expert reluctantly admits that the right to own a gun is as important a Constitutional right as freedom of speech or religion:

Like many academics, I was happy to blissfully ignore the Second Amendment. It did not fit neatly into my socially liberal agenda.

It is hard to read the Second Amendment and not honestly conclude that the Framers intended gun ownership to be an individual right. It is true that the amendment begins with a reference to militias: “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.” Accordingly, it is argued, this amendment protects the right of the militia to bear arms, not the individual.

Yet, if true, the Second Amendment would be effectively declared a defunct provision. The National Guard is not a true militia in the sense of the Second Amendment and, since the District and others believe governments can ban guns entirely, the Second Amendment would be read out of existence.

More important, the mere reference to a purpose of the Second Amendment does not alter the fact that an individual right is created. The right of the people to keep and bear arms is stated in the same way as the right to free speech or free press. The statement of a purpose was intended to reaffirm the power of the states and the people against the central government. At the time, many feared the federal government and its national army. Gun ownership was viewed as a deterrent against abuse by the government, which would be less likely to mess with a well-armed populace.

Considering the Framers and their own traditions of hunting and self-defense, it is clear that they would have viewed such ownership as an individual right — consistent with the plain meaning of the amendment.

None of this is easy for someone raised to believe that the Second Amendment was the dividing line between the enlightenment and the dark ages of American culture. Yet, it is time to honestly reconsider this amendment and admit that … here’s the really hard part … the NRA may have been right. This does not mean that Charlton Heston is the new Rosa Parks or that no restrictions can be placed on gun ownership. But it does appear that gun ownership was made a protected right by the Framers and, while we might not celebrate it, it is time that we recognize it.

The gun control debate – including which weapons and magazines are banned – is still in flux …

Third Amendment

The 3rd Amendment prohibits the government forcing people to house soldiers:

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

While a recent lawsuit by a Nevada family – covered by (Mother Jones, Fox News and Courthouse News – alleges violation of the Third Amendment, this appears to be an isolated incident and an aberration.

So we’ll count this as an Amendment which is still being honored! Score one for We the People!

Fourth Amendment

The 4th Amendment prevents unlawful search and seizure:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

But the government is spying on everything we do … without any real benefit or justification.

Indeed, experts say that the type of spying being carried out by the NSA and other agencies is exactly the kind of thing which King George imposed on the American colonists … which led to the Revolutionary War.

And many Constitutional experts – such as Jonathan Turley – think that the police went too far in Boston with lockdowns and involuntary door-to-door searches.

Fifth Amendment

The 5th Amendment addresses due process of law, eminent domain, double jeopardy and grand jury:

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

But the American government has shredded the 5th Amendment by subjecting us to indefinite detention and taking away our due process rights.

The government claims the right to assassinate or indefinitely detain any American citizen on U.S. citizen without any due process. And see this.

As such, the government is certainly depriving people of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.

There are additional corruptions of 5th Amendment rights – such as property being taken for private purposes.

The percentage of prosecutions in which a defendant is denied a grand jury is difficult to gauge, as there is so much secrecy surrounding many terrorism trials.

Protection against being tried twice for the same crime after being found innocent (“double jeopardy”) seems to be intact.  Hey … that’s two Constitutional rights which are still intact!

Sixth Amendment

The 6th Amendment guarantees the right to hear the criminal charges levied against us and to be able to confront the witnesses who have testified against us, as well as speedy criminal trials, and a public defender for those who cannot hire an attorney:

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

Subjecting people to indefinite detention or assassination obviously violates the 6th Amendment right to a jury trial. In both cases, the defendants is “disposed of” without ever receiving a trial … and often without ever hearing the charges against them.

More and more commonly, the government prosecutes cases based upon “secret evidence” that they don’t show to the defendant … or sometimes even the judge hearing the case.

The government uses “secret evidence” to spy on Americans, prosecute leakingor terrorism charges (even against U.S. soldiers) and even assassinate people. And see this and this.

Secret witnesses are being used in some cases. And sometimes lawyers are not even allowed to read their own briefs.

Indeed, even the laws themselves are now starting to be kept secret. And it’s about to get a lot worse.

True – when defendants are afforded a jury trial – they are provided with assistance of counsel. However, the austerity caused by redistribution of wealth to the super-elite is causing severe budget cuts to the courts and the public defenders’ offices nationwide.

Moreover, there are two systems of justice in America … one for the big banks and other fatcats, and one for everyone else. The government made it official policy not to prosecute fraud, even though fraud is the main business modeladopted by Wall Street. Indeed, the biggest financial crime in world history, thelargest insider trading scandal of all time, illegal raiding of customer accountsand blatant financing of drug cartels and terrorists have all been committed recently without any real criminal prosecution or jail time.

On the other hand, government prosecutors are using the legal system to crush dissent and to silence whistleblowers.

And some of the nation’s most powerful judges have lost their independence … and are in bed with the powers-that-be.

Seventh Amendment

The 7th Amendment guarantees trial by jury in federal court for civil cases:

In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

As far as we know, this right is still being respected (that’s three rights still being followed).

However – as noted above – the austerity caused by redistribution of wealth to the super-elite is causing severe budget cuts to the courts, resulting in the wheels of justice slowing down considerably.

Eighth Amendment

The 8th Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment:

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Indefinite detention and assassination are obviously cruel and unusual punishment.

The widespread system of torture carried out in the last 10 years – with the help of other countries – violates the 8th Amendment. Many want to bring it back … or at least justify its past use.

While Justice Scalia disingenuously argues that torture does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment because it is meant to produce information – not punish – he’s wrong. It’s not only cruel and unusual … it is technically a form of terrorism.

And government whistleblowers are being cruelly and unusually punished with unduly harsh sentences meant to intimidate anyone else from speaking out.

Ninth Amendment

The 9th Amendment provides that people have other rights, even if they aren’t specifically listed in the Constitution:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

We can debate what our inherent rights as human beings are. I believe they include the right to a level playing field, and access to non-toxic food and water. You may disagree.

But everyone agrees that the government should not actively encourage fraud and manipulation. However, the government – through its malignant, symbiotic relation with big corporations – is interfering with our aspirations for economic freedom, safe food and water (instead of arsenic-laden, genetically engineered junk), freedom from undue health hazards such as irradiation due togovernment support of archaic nuclear power designs, and a level playing field (as opposed to our crony capitalist system in which the little guy has no shotdue to redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the super-elite, and government support of white collar criminals).

By working hand-in-glove with giant corporations to defraud us into paying for a lower quality of life, the government is trampling our basic rights as human beings.

Tenth Amendment

The 10th Amendment provides that powers not specifically given to the Federalgovernment are reserved to the states or individual:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Two of the central principles of America’s Founding Fathers are:

(1) The government is created and empowered with the consent of the people

and

(2) Separation of powers

Today, most Americans believe that the government is threatening – rather thanprotecting – freedom.  We’ve become more afraid of our government than of terrorists, and believe that the government is no longer acting with the “consent of the governed“.

And the federal government is trampling the separation of powers by stepping on the toes of the states and the people. For example, former head S&L prosecutor Bill Black – now a professor of law and economics – notes:

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the resident examiners and regional staff of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency [both] competed to weaken federal regulation and aggressively used the preemption doctrine to try to prevent state investigations of and actions against fraudulent mortgage lenders.

Indeed, the federal government is doing everything it can to stick its nose into every aspect of our lives … and act like Big Brother.

Conclusion: While a few of the liberties enshrined in the Bill of Rights still exist, the vast majority are under heavy assault.

Other Constitutional Provisions … and The Declaration of Independence

In addition to the trampling of the Bill of Rights, the government has alsotrashed the separation of powers enshrined in the main body of the Constitution.

The government is also engaging in activities which the Founding Fathers fought against, such as taxation without representation (here and here), cronyism,deference to central banks, etc.

As thethe preamble to the Declaration of Independence shows, the American government is still carrying out many of the acts the Founding Fathers found most offensive:

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armieswithout the Consent of our legislatures. [Background]

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. [Background here, here and here]

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: [Background]

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences [Background]

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. [Background]

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. [Background here, hereand here]

There is a great deal of discussion about liberty, freedom, and democracy in libertarian circles.  I am not a libertarian (I am a conservative, of the old-style sort), but I find myself in sympathy with the libertarians these days as the fascists and socialists (financed by a petrodollar-euro fiat monetary system) have seemed to combine themselves into an increasingly totalitarian regime over all of Western Civilization.

You really must distinguish between the concepts of liberty and freedom.  Liberty has a French etymology liberté, while freedom has a Germanic etymology from “freiheit.”  They really have very different meanings, though people increasingly have come to use the two interchangeably.  Freedom, as explained in much Germanic philosophy, is a concept of collective decision-making… in groups people are free to determine how to conduct the affairs of the group.  This is democratic, essentially.  It is also totalitarian: the dictatorship of the majority.  Freedom is not a right, though it certainly is a reality.

Liberty is the capacity of the individual to freely determine how to conduct his or her own affairs and is often in direct opposition to freedom.  This is why rights are protections of individual liberty against the freedom of the group to make laws and generally impose its will on the whole of society.  Liberty is not a reality; liberty must be preserved against freedom and democracy.

The Constitution of the United States is a document that recognizes the conflicts between liberty and democracy and comes down clearly on the side of liberty, with the Bill of Rights, with the separation of powers, with the indirect election of representatives.  Libertarianism, and democracy are co-travelers often, but they are not the same thing; the two are, in fact, often in opposition to one another.  So I ask you libertarians, for your own good, to stop equating democracy with liberty and with the U.S. Constitution; you are doing yourselves a serious disservice.  You also should rethink many of your positions on democracy, the Constitution, and liberty in order to present a more intellectually coherent synopsis of your political agenda.

 

“Manufacturing Dissent”: The Anti-globalization Movement is Funded by the Corporate Elites

http://www.prisonplanet.com/manufacturing-dissent-the-anti-globalization-movement-is-funded-by-the-corporate-elites.html

By Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research

“Everything the [Ford] Foundation did could be regarded as “making the World safe for capitalism”, reducing social tensions by helping to comfort the afflicted, provide safety valves for the angry, and improve the functioning of government (McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson (1961-1966), President of the Ford Foundation, (1966-1979))

“By providing the funding and the policy framework to many concerned and dedicated people working within the non-profit sector, the ruling class is able to co-opt leadership from grassroots communities, … and is able to make the funding, accounting, and evaluation components of the work so time consuming and onerous that social justice work is virtually impossible under these conditions” (Paul Kivel, You call this Democracy, Who Benefits, Who Pays and Who Really Decides, 2004, p. 122 )

“Under the New World Order, the ritual of inviting “civil society” leaders into the inner circles of power –while simultaneously repressing the rank and file– serves several important functions. First, it says to the World that the critics of globalization “must make concessions” to earn the right to mingle. Second, it conveys the illusion that while the global elites should –under what is euphemistically called democracy– be subject to criticism, they nonetheless rule legitimately. And third, it says “there is no alternative” to globalization: fundamental change is not possible and the most we can hope is to engage with these rulers in an ineffective “give and take”.

While the “Globalizers” may adopt a few progressive phrases to demonstrate they have good intentions, their fundamental goals are not challenged. And what this “civil society mingling” does is to reinforce the clutch of the corporate establishment while weakening and dividing the protest movement. An understanding of this process of co-optation is important, because tens of thousands of the most principled young people in Seattle, Prague and Quebec City [1999-2001] are involved in the anti-globalization protests because they reject the notion that money is everything, because they reject the impoverishment of millions and the destruction of fragile Earth so that a few may get richer.

This rank and file and some of their leaders as well, are to be applauded. But we need to go further. We need to challenge the right of the “Globalizers” to rule. This requires that we rethink the strategy of protest. Can we move to a higher plane, by launching mass movements in our respective countries, movements that bring the message of what globalization is doing, to ordinary people? For they are the force that must be mobilized to challenge those who plunder the Globe.” (Michel Chossudovsky,  The Quebec Wall, April  2001)

The term “manufacturing consent” was initially coined by Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky.

“Manufacturing consent” describes a propaganda model used by the corporate media to sway public opinion and “inculcate individuals with values and beliefs…”:

The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society. In a world of concentrated wealth and major conflicts of class interest, to fulfill this role requires systematic propaganda. (Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky)

“Manufacturing consent” implies manipulating and shaping public opinion. It establishes conformity and acceptance to authority and social hierarchy. It seeks compliance to an established social order. “Manufacturing consent” describes the submission of public opinion to the mainstream media narrative, to its lies and fabrications.

“Manufacturing dissent”

In this article, we focus on a related concept, namely the process of “manufacturing dissent” (rather than “consent”), which plays a decisive role in serving the interests of the ruling class.

Under contemporary capitalism, the illusion of democracy must prevail. It is in the interest of the corporate elites to accept dissent and protest as a feature of the system inasmuch as they do not threaten the established social order. The purpose is not to repress dissent, but, on the contrary, to shape and mould the protest movement, to set the outer limits of dissent.

To maintain their legitimacy, the economic elites favor limited and controlled forms of opposition, with a view to preventing the development of radical forms of protest, which might shake the very foundations and institutions of global capitalism. In other words, “manufacturing dissent” acts as a “safety valve”, which protects and sustains the New World Order.

To be effective, however, the process of “manufacturing dissent” must be carefully regulated and monitored by those who are the object of the protest movement.

“Funding Dissent”

How is the process of manufacturing dissent achieved?

Essentially by “funding dissent”, namely by channelling financial resources from those who are the object of the protest movement to those who are involved in organizing the protest movement.

Co-optation is not limited to buying the favors of politicians. The economic elites –which control major foundations– also oversee the funding of numerous NGOs and civil society organizations, which historically have been involved in the protest movement against the established economic and social order. The programs of many NGOs and people’s movements rely heavily on both public as well as private funding agencies including the Ford, Rockefeller, McCarthy foundations, among others.

The anti-globalization movement is opposed to Wall Street and the Texas oil giants controlled by Rockefeller, et al. Yet the foundations and charities of Rockefeller et al will generously fund progressive anti-capitalist networks as well as environmentalists (opposed to Big Oil) with a view to ultimately overseeing and shaping their various activities.

The mechanisms of “manufacturing dissent” require a manipulative environment, a process of arm-twisting and subtle cooptation of individuals within progressive organizations, including anti-war coalitions, environmentalists and the anti-globalization movement.

Whereas the mainstream media “manufactures consent”, the complex network of NGOs (including segments of the alternative media) are used by the corporate elites to mould and manipulate the protest movement.

Following the deregulation of the global financial system in the 1990s and the rapid enrichment of the financial establishment, funding through foundations and charities has skyrocketed. In a bitter irony, part of the fraudulent financial gains on Wall Street in recent years have been recycled to the elites’ tax exempt foundations and charities. These windfall financial gains have not only been used to buy out politicians, they have also been channelled to NGOs, research institutes, community centres, church groups, environmentalists, alternative media, human rights groups, etc. “Manufactured dissent” also applies to “corporate left” and “progressive media” funded by NGOs or directly by the foundations.

The inner objective is to “manufacture dissent” and establish the boundaries of a “politically correct” opposition. In turn, many NGOs are infiltrated by  informants often acting on behalf of western intelligence agencies. Moreover, an increasingly large segment of the progressive alternative news media on the internet has become dependent on funding from corporate foundations and charities.

Piecemeal Activism

The objective of the corporate elites has been to fragment the people’s movement into a vast “do it yourself” mosaic. War and globalization are no longer in the forefront of civil society activism. Activism tends to be piecemeal. There is no integrated anti-globalization anti-war movement. The economic crisis is not seen as having a relationship to the US led war.

Dissent has been compartmentalized. Separate “issue oriented” protest movements (e.g. environment, anti-globalization, peace, women’s rights, climate change) are encouraged and generously funded as opposed to a cohesive mass movement. This mosaic was already prevalent in the counter G7 summits and People’s Summits of the 1990s.

The Anti-Globalization Movement

The Seattle 1999 counter-summit is invariably upheld as a triumph for the anti-globalization movement: “a historic coalition of activists shut down the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, the spark that ignited a global anti-corporate movement.” (See Naomi Klein,Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up, The Nation, November 13, 2009).

Seattle was an indeed an important crossroads in the history of the mass movement. Over 50,000 people from diverse backgrounds, civil society organizations, human rights, labor unions, environmentalists had come together in a common pursuit. Their goal was to forecefully dismantle the neoliberal agenda including its institutional base.

But Seattle also marked a major reversal. With mounting dissent from all sectors of society, the official WTO Summit desperately needed the token participation of civil society leaders “on the inside”, to give the appearance of being “democratic” on the outside.

While thousands of people had converged on Seattle, what occurred behind the scenes was a de facto victory for neoliberalism. A handful of civil society organizations, formally opposed the WTO had contributed to legitimizing the WTO’s global trading architecture. Instead of challenging the WTO as an an illegal intergovernmental body, they agreed to a pre-summit dialogue with the WTO and Western governments. “Accredited NGO participants were invited to mingle in a friendly environment with ambassadors, trade ministers and Wall Street tycoons at several of the official events including the numerous cocktail parties and receptions.” (Michel Chossudovsky, Seattle and Beyond: Disarming the New World Order , Covert Action Quarterly, November 1999, See Ten Years Ago: “Manufacturing Dissent” in Seattle).

The hidden agenda was to weaken and divide the protest movement and orient the anti-globalization movement into areas that would not directly threaten the interests of the business establishment.

Funded by private foundations (including Ford, Rockefeller, Rockefeller Brothers, Charles Stewart Mott, The Foundation for Deep Ecology), these “accredited” civil society organizations had positioned themselves as lobby groups, acting formally on behalf of the people’s movement. Led by prominent and committed activists, their hands were tied. They ultimately contributed (unwittingly) to weakening the anti-globalization movement by accepting the legitimacy of what was essentially an illegal organization. (The 1994 Marrakech Summit agreement which led to the creation of the WTO on January 1, 1995). (Ibid)

The NGO leaders were fully aware as to where the money was coming from. Yet within the US and European NGO community, the foundations and charities are considered to be independent philanthropic bodies, separate from the corporations; namely the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, for instance, is considered to be separate and distinct from the Rockefeller family empire of banks and oil companies.

With salaries and operating expenses depending on private foundations, it became an accepted routine: In a twisted logic, the battle against corporate capitalism was to be be fought using the funds from the tax exempt foundations owned by corporate capitalism.

The NGOs were caught in a straightjacket; their very existence depended on the foundations. Their activities were closely monitored. In a twisted logic, the very nature of anti-capitalist activism was indirectly controlled  by the capitalists through their independent foundations.

“Progressive Watchdogs”

In this evolving saga, the corporate elites whose interests are duly served by the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO, will readily fund (through their various foundations and charities) organizations which are at the forefront of the protest movement against the WTO and the Washington based international financial institutions.

Supported by foundation money, various “watchdogs” were set up by the NGOs to monitor the implementation of neoliberal policies, without however raising the broader issue of how the Bretton Woods twins and the WTO, through their policies, had contributed to the impoverishment of millions of people.

The Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Network (SAPRIN) was established by Development Gap, a USAID and World Bank funded NGO based in Washington DC.

Amply documented, the imposition of the IMF-World Bank Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) on developing countries constitutes a blatant form of interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states on behalf of creditor institutions.

Instead of challenging the legitimacy of the IMF-World Bank’s “deadly economic medicine”, SAPRIN’s core organization sought to establish a participatory role for the NGOs, working hand in glove with USAID and the World Bank. The objective was to give a “human face” to the neoliberal policy agenda, rather than reject the IMF-World Bank policy framework outright:

“SAPRIN is the global civil-society network that took its name from the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative (SAPRI), which it launched with the World Bank and its president, Jim Wolfensohn, in 1997.

SAPRI is designed as a tripartite exercise to bring together organizations of civil society, their governments and the World Bank in a joint review of structural adjustment programs (SAPs) and an exploration of new policy options. It is legitimizing an active role for civil society in economic decision-making, as it is designed to indicate areas in which changes in economic policies and in the economic-policymaking process are required. ( http://www.saprin.org/overview.htm SAPRIN website, emphasis added)

Similarly, The Trade Observatory (formerly WTO Watch), operating out of Geneva, is a project of the Minneapolis based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), which is generously funded by Ford, Rockefeller, Charles Stewart Mott among others. (see Table 1 below).

The Trade Observatory has a mandate to monitor the World Trade Organization (WTO), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA and the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas  (FTAA). (IATP, About Trade Observatory, accessed September 2010).

The Trade Observatory is also to develop data and information as well as foster “governance” and “accountability”. Accountability to the victims of WTO policies or accountability to the protagonists of neoliberal reforms?

The Trade Observatory watchdog functions does not in any way threaten the WTO. Quite the opposite: the legitimacy of the trade organizations and agreements are never questioned.

Table 1 Minneapolis Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) largest donors
(for complete list click here)

Ford Foundation	$2,612,500.00	1994 – 2006
Rockefeller Brothers Fund	$2,320,000.00	1995 – 2005
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation	$1,391,000.00	1994 – 2005
McKnight Foundation	$1,056,600.00	1995 – 2005
Joyce Foundation	$748,000.00	1996 – 2004
Bush Foundation	$610,000.00	2001 – 2006
Bauman Family Foundation	$600,000.00	1994 – 2006
Great Lakes Protection Fund	$580,000.00	1995 – 2000
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation	$554,100.00	1991 – 2003
John Merck Fund	$490,000.00	1992 – 2003
Harold K. Hochschild Foundation	$486,600.00	1997 – 2005
Foundation for Deep Ecology	$417,500.00	1991 – 2001
Jennifer Altman Foundation	$366,500.00	1992 – 2001
Rockefeller Foundation	$344,134.00	2000 – 2004

Soruce: http://activistcash.com/organization_financials.cfm/o/16-institute-for-agriculture-and-trade-policy

The World Economic Forum. “All Roads Lead to Davos”

The people’s movement has been hijacked. Selected intellectuals, trade union executives, and the leaders of civil society organizations (including Oxfam, Amnesty International, Greenpeace) are routinely invited to the Davos World Economic Forum, where they mingle with the World’s most powerful economic and political actors. This mingling of the World’s corporate elites with hand-picked “progressives” is part of the ritual underlying the process of  “manufacturing dissent”.

The ploy is to selectively handpick civil society leaders “whom we can trust” and integrate them into a “dialogue”, cut them off from their rank and file, make them feel that they are “global citizens” acting on behalf of their fellow workers but make them act in a way which serves the interests of the corporate establishment:

“The participation of NGOs in the Annual Meeting in Davos is evidence of the fact that [we] purposely seek to integrate a broad spectrum of the major stakeholders in society in … defining and advancing the global agenda … We believe the [Davos] World Economic Forum provides the business community with the ideal framework for engaging in collaborative efforts with the other principal stakeholders [NGOs] of the global economy to “improve the state of the world,” which is the Forum’s mission. (World Economic Forum, Press Release 5 January 2001)

The WEF does not represent the broader business community. It is an elitist gathering: Its members are giant global corporations (with a minimum $5 billion annual turnover). The selected non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are viewed as partner “stakeholders” as well as a convenient “mouthpiece for the voiceless who are often left out of decision-making processes.” (World Economic Forum – Non-Governmental Organizations, 2010)

“They [the NGOs] play a variety of roles in partnering with the Forum to improve the state of the world, including serving as a bridge between business, government and civil society, connecting the policy makers to the grassroots, bringing practical solutions to the table…” (Ibid)

Civil society “partnering” with global corporations on behalf of “the voiceless”, who are “left out”?

Trade union executives are also co-opted to the detriment of workers’ rights.  The leaders of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), the AFL-CIO, the European Trade Union Confederation, the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), among others, are routinely invited to attend both the annual WEF meetings in Davos, Switzerland as well as to the regional summits. They also participate in the WEF’s Labour Leaders Community which focuses on mutually acceptable patterns of behavior for the labor movement. The WEF “believes that the voice of Labour is important to dynamic dialogue on issues of globalisation, economic justice, transparency and accountability, and ensuring a healthy global financial system.”

“Ensuring a healthy global financial system” wrought by fraud and corruption? The issue of workers’ rights is not mentioned. (World Economic Forum – Labour Leaders, 2010).

The World Social Forum: “Another World Is Possible”

The 1999 Seattle counter-summit in many regards laid the foundations for the development of the World Social Forum.

The first gathering of the World Social Forum took place in January 2001, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. This international gathering involved the participation of  tens of thousands of activists from grass-roots organizations and NGOs.

The WSF  gathering of NGOs and progressive organizations has been held simultaneously with the Davos World Economic Forum (WEF). It was intended to voice opposition and dissent to the World Economic Forum of corporate leaders and finance ministers.

The WSF at the outset was an initiative of France’s ATTAC and several Brazilian NGOs’:

“… In February 2000, Bernard Cassen, the head of a French NGO platform ATTAC, Oded Grajew, head of a Brazilian employers’ organisation, and Francisco Whitaker, head of an association of Brazilian NGOs, met to discuss a proposal for a “world civil society event”; by March 2000, they formally secured the support of the municipal government of Porto Alegre and the state government of Rio Grande do Sul, both controlled at the time by the Brazilian Workers’ Party (PT)…. A group of French NGOs, including ATTAC, Friends of L’Humanité, and Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique, sponsored an Alternative Social Forum in Paris titled “One Year after Seattle”, in order to prepare an agenda for the protests to be staged at the upcoming European Union summit at Nice. The speakers called for “reorienting certain international institutions such as the IMF, World Bank, WTO… so as to create a globalization from below” and “building an international citizens’ movement, not to destroy the IMF but to reorient its missions.” (Research Unit For Political Economy, The Economics and Politics of the World Social Forum, Global Research, January 20, 2004)

From the outset in 2001, the WSF was supported by core funding from the Ford Foundation, which is known to have ties to the CIA going back to the 1950s: “The CIA uses philanthropic foundations as the most effective conduit to channel large sums of money to Agency projects without alerting the recipients to their source.” (James Petras, The Ford Foundation and the CIA, Global Research, September 18, 2002)

The same procedure of donor funded counter-summits or people’s summits which characterized the 1990s People’s Summits was embodied in the World Social Forum (WSF):

“… other WSF funders (or `partners’, as they are referred to in WSF terminology) included the Ford Foundation, — suffice it to say here that it has always operated in the closest collaboration with the US Central Intelligence Agency and US overall strategic interests; the Heinrich Boll Foundation, which is controlled by the German Greens party, a partner in the present [2003] German government and a supporter of the wars on Yugoslavia and Afghanistan (its leader Joschka Fischer is the [former] German foreign minister); and major funding agencies such as Oxfam (UK), Novib (Netherlands), ActionAid (UK), and so on.

Remarkably, an International Council member of the WSF reports that the “considerable funds” received from these agencies have “not hitherto awakened any significant debates [in the WSF bodies] on the possible relations of dependence it could generate.” Yet he admits that “in order to get funding from the Ford Foundation, the organisers had to convince the foundation that the Workers Party was not involved in the process.” Two points are worth noting here. First, this establishes that the funders were able to twist arms and determine the role of different forces in the WSF — they needed to be `convinced’ of the credentials of those who would be involved. Secondly, if the funders objected to the participation of the thoroughly domesticated Workers Party, they would all the more strenuously object to prominence being given to genuinely anti-imperialist forces. That they did so object will be become clear as we describe who was included and who excluded from the second and third meets of the WSF….

… The question of funding [of the WSF] does not even figure in the charter of principles of the WSF, adopted in June 2001. Marxists, being materialists, would point out that one should look at the material base of the forum to grasp its nature. (One indeed does not have to be a Marxist to understand that “he who pays the piper calls the tune”.) But the WSF does not agree. It can draw funds from imperialist institutions like Ford Foundation while fighting “domination of the world by capital and any form of imperialism” (Research Unit For Political Economy, The Economics and Politics of the World Social Forum, Global Research, January 20, 2004)

The Ford Foundation provided core support to the WSF, with indirect contributions to participating “partner organizations” from the McArthur Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, the W. Alton Jones Foundation,  the European Commission, several European governments (including the Labour government of Tony Blair), the Canadian government, as well as a number of UN bodies (including UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, ILO and the FAO) .(Ibid).

In addition to initial core support from the Ford Foundation, many of the participating civil society organizations receive funding from major foundations and charities. In turn, the US and European based NGOs often operate as secondary funding agencies channelling Ford and Rockefeller money towards partner organizations in developing countries, including grassroots peasant and human rights movements.

The International Council (IC) of the WSF is made up of representatives from NGOs, trade unions, alternative media organizations, research institutes, many of which are heavily funded by foundations as well as governments. (See Fórum Social Mundial). The same trade unions, which are routinely invited to mingle with Wall Street CEOs at the Davos World Economic Forum (WSF) including the AFL-CIO, the European Trade Union Confederation and the  Canadian Labor Congress (CLC) also sit on the WSF’s International Council (IC). Among NGOs funded by major foundations sitting on the WSF’s IC is the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) (see our analysis above) which oversees the Geneva based Trade Observatory.

The Funders Network on Trade and Globalization (FTNG), which has observer status on the WSF International Council plays a key role. While channelling financial support to the WSF, it acts as a clearing house for major foundations. The FTNG describes itself as “an alliance of grant makers committed to building just and sustainable communities around the world”. Members of this alliance are Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers, Heinrich Boell, C. S. Mott, Merck Family Foundation, Open Society Institute, Tides, among others. (For a complete list of FTNG funding agencies see FNTG: Funders). FTNG acts as a fund raising entity on behalf of the WSF.

Western Governments Fund the Counter-Summits and Repress the Protest Movement

In a bitter irony, governments including the European Union grant money to fund progressive groups (including the WSF) involved in organizing protests against the very same governments which finance their activities.

“Governments, too, have been significant financiers of protest groups. The European Commission, for example, funded two groups who mobilised large numbers of people to protest at EU summits at Gothenburg and Nice. Britain’s national lottery, which is overseen by the government, helped fund a group at the heart of the British contingent at both protests.” (James Harding, Counter-capitalism, FT.com, October 15 2001)

We are dealing with a diabolical process: The host government finances the official summit as well as the NGOs actively involved in the Counter-Summit. It also funds the anti-riot police operation which has a mandate to repress the grassroots participants of the Counter-Summit.

The purpose of these combined operations, including violent actions committed by anti-riot police forces (including larcen and vandalism), is to discredit the protest movement and intimidate its participants. The broader objective is to transform the counter-summit into a ritual of dissent, which serves to uphold the interests of the official summit and the host government. This logic has prevailed in numerous counter summits since the 1990s.

At the 2001 Summit of the America in Quebec City, funding from the Canadian federal government to mainstream NGOs and trade unions was granted under certain conditions. A large segment of the protest movement was de facto excluded from the People’s Summit. This in itself led a second parallel venue, which some observers described as a “a counter-People’s Summit. In turn, organizers agreed with both the provincial and federal authorities that the protest march would be move towards a remote location some 10 km out of town, rather than towards the historical downtown area were the official FTAA summit was being held behind a heavily guarded “security perimeter”.

“Rather than marching toward the perimeter fence and the Summit of the Americas meetings, march organizers chose a route that marched from the People’s Summit away from the fence, through largely empty residential areas to the parking lot of a stadium in a vacant area several miles away. Henri Masse, the president of the Federation des travailleurs et travailleuses du Quebec (FTQ), explained, “I deplore that we are so far from the center-city…. But it was a question of security.” One thousand marshals from the FTQ kept very tight control over the march. When the march came to the point where some activists planned to split off and go up the hill to the fence, FTQ marshals signalled the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) contingent walking behind CUPE to sit down and stop the march so that FTQ marshals could lock arms and prevent others from leaving the official march route.” (Katherine Dwyer, Lessons of Quebec City, International Socialist Review, June/July 2001)

Security Perimeter, Quebec City 2001

The Summit of the Americas was held inside a four kilometer
“bunker” made of concrete and galvanized steel fencing. The
10 feet high “Quebec Wall” encircled part of the historic city
center including the parliamentary compound of the National
Assembly, hotels and shopping areas.

Quebec City, April 2001

Toronto G20 Security Fence $5.5 million, June 2010

NGO Leaders versus their Grassroots

The establishment of the World Social Forum (WSF) in 2001 was unquestionably a historical landmark, bringing together tens of thousands of committed activists. It was an important venue which allowed for the exchange of ideas and the establishment of ties of solidarity.

What is at stake is the ambivalent role of the leaders of progressive organizations. Their cozy and polite relationship to the inner circles of power, to corporate and government funding, aid agencies, the World Bank, etc, undermines their relationship and responsibilities to their rank and file. The objective of manufactured dissent is precisely that: to distance the leaders from their rank and file as a means to effectively silencing and weakening grassroots actions.

Most of the grassroots participating organizations in the World Social Forum including peasant, workers’ and student organizations, firmly committed to combating neoliberalism were unaware of the WSF International Council’s relationship to corporate funding, negotiated behind their backs by a handful of NGO leaders with ties to both official and private funding agencies.

Funding to progressive organizations is not unconditional. Its purpose is to “pacify” and manipulate the protest movement.  Precise conditionalities are set by the funding agencies. If they are not met, the disbursements are discontinued and the recipient NGO is driven into de facto bankruptcy due to lack of funds.

The WSF defines itself  as “an open meeting place for reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals, free exchange of experiences and inter-linking for effective action, by groups and movements of civil society that are opposed to neo-liberalism and to domination of the world by capital and any form of imperialism, and are committed to building a society centred on the human person”. (See Fórum Social Mundial, accessed 2010).

The WSF is a mosaic of individual initiatives which does not directly threaten or challenge the legitimacy of global capitalism and its institutions. It meets annually. It is characterised by a multitude of sessions and workshops. In this regard, one of the features of the WSF was to retain the “do-it-yourself” framework, characteristic of the donor funded counter G7 People’s Summits of the 1990s.

This apparent disorganized structure is deliberate. While favoring debate on a number of individual topics, the WSF framework is not conducive to the articulation of a cohesive common platform and plan of action directed global capitalism. Moreover, the US led war in the Middle East and Central Asia, which broke out a few months after the inaugural WSF venue in Porto Alegre in January 2001, has not been a central issue in forum discussions.

What prevails is a vast and intricate network of organizations. The recipient grassroots organizations in developing countries are invariably unaware that their partner NGOs in the United States or the European Union, which are providing them with financial support, are themselves funded by major foundations. The money trickles down, setting constraints on grassroots actions. Many of these NGO leaders are committed and well meaning individuals acting within a framework which sets the boundaries of dissent. The leaders of these movements are often co-opted, without even realizing that as a result of corporate funding their hands are tied.

Global capitalism finances anti-capitalism: an absurd and contradictory relationship.

“Another World is Possible”, but it cannot be meaningfully achieved under the present arrangement.

A shake-up of the World Social Forum, of its organizational structure, its funding arrangements and leadership is required.

There can be no meaningful mass movement when dissent is generously funded by those same corporate interests which are the target of the protest movement. In the words of McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation (1966-1979),“Everything the [Ford] Foundation did could be regarded as ‘making the World safe for capitalism’”.

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3. Left-Leaning Despisers of the 9/11 Truth Movement: Do You Really Believe in Miracles?
4. US Meddling in Russia: In Their Own Words
5. Occupy Wall Street and “The American Autumn”: Is It a “Colored Revolution”?

 

19 SIGNS THAT AMERICAN FAMILIES ARE BEING ECONOMICALLY DESTROYED

http://www.blacklistednews.com/19_Signs_That_American_Families_Are_Being_Economically_Destroyed/43310/0/38/38/Y/M.html

SOURCE: MICHAEL SNYDER, GUEST POST

The systematic destruction of the American way of life is happening all around us, and yet most people have no idea what is happening.  Once upon a time in America, if you were responsible and hard working you could get a good paying job that could support a middle class lifestyle for an entire family even if you only had a high school education.  Things weren’t perfect, but generally almost everyone in the entire country was able to take care of themselves without government assistance.  We worked hard, we played hard, and our seemingly boundless prosperity was the envy of the entire planet.  But over the past several decades things have completely changed.  We consumed far more wealth than we produced, we shipped millions of good paying jobs overseas, we piled up the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the world, and we kept electing politicians that had absolutely no concern for the long-term future of this nation whatsoever.  So now good jobs are in very short supply, we are drowning in an ocean of red ink, the middle class is rapidly shrinking and dependence on the government is at an all-time high.  Even as we stand at the precipice of the next great economic crisis, we continue to make the same mistakes.  In the end, all of us are going to pay a very great price for decades of incredibly foolish decisions.  Of course a tremendous amount of damage has already been done.  The numbers that I am about to share with you are staggering.  The following are 19 signs that American families are being economically destroyed…

#1 The poorest 40 percent of all Americans now spend more than 50 percent of their incomes just on food and housing.

#2 For those Americans that don’t own a home, 50 percent of them spend more than a third of their incomes just on rent.

#3 The price of school lunches has risen to the 3 dollar mark at many public schools across the nation.

#4 McDonald’s “Dollar Menu & More” now includes items that cost as much as 5 dollars.

#5 The price of ground beef has doubled since 2009.

#6 In 1986, child care expenses for families with employed mothers used up 6.3 percent of all income.  Today, that figure is up to 7.2 percent.

#7 Incomes fell for the bottom 80 percent of all income earners in the United States during the 12 months leading up to June 2014.

#8 At this point, more than 50 percent of all American workers bring home less than $30,000 a year in wages.

#9 After adjusting for inflation, median household income has fallen by nearly $5,000 since 2007.

#10 According to the New York Times, the “typical American household” is now worth 36 percent less than it was worth a decade ago.

#11 47 percent of all Americans do not put a single penny out of their paychecks into savings.

#12 One survey found that 62 percent of all Americans are currently living paycheck to paycheck.

#13 According to the U.S. Department of Education, 33 percent of all Americans with student loans are currently behind on their student loan debt repayments.

#14 According to one recent report, 43 million Americans currently have unpaid medical debt on their credit reports.

#15 The rate of homeownership in the U.S. has been declining for seven years in a row, and it is now the lowest that it has been in 20 years.

#16 For each of the past six years, more businesses have closed in the United States than have opened.  Prior to 2008, this had never happened before in all of U.S. history.

#17 According to the Census Bureau, 65 percent of all children in the United States are living in a home that receives some form of aid from the federal government.

#18 If you have no debt at all, and you also have 10 dollars in your wallet, that you are wealthier than 25 percent of all Americans.

#19 On top of everything else, the average American must work from January 1st to April 24thjust to pay all federal, state and local taxes.

All of us know people that once were doing quite well but that are now just struggling to get by from month to month.

Perhaps this has happened to you.

If you have ever been in that position, you probably remember what it feels like to have people look down on you.  Unfortunately, in our society the value that we place on individuals has a tremendous amount to do with how much money they have.

So if you don’t have much money, there are a lot of people out there that will treat you like dirt.  The following excerpt comes from a Washington Post article entitled “The poor are treated like criminals everywhere, even at the grocery store“…

Want to see a look of pure hatred? Pull out an EBT card at the grocery store.

Now that my kids are grown and gone, my Social Security check is enough to keep me from qualifying for government food benefits. But I remember well when we did qualify for a monthly EBT deposit, a whopping $22 — and that was before Congress cut SNAP benefits in November 2013. Like 70 percent of people receiving SNAP benefits, I couldn’t feed my family on that amount. But I remember the comments from middle-class people, the assumptions about me and my disability and what the poor should and shouldn’t be spending money on.

Have you ever seen this?

Have you ever experienced this yourself?

These days, most people on food stamps are not in that situation because they want to be.  Rather, they are victims of our long-term economic collapse.

And this is just the beginning.  When the next major economic crisis strikes, the suffering in this country is going to go to unprecedented levels.

As we enter that time, we are going to need a whole lot more love and compassion than we are exhibiting right now.

As a nation, we have made decades of incredibly bad decisions.  As a result, we are experiencing bad consequences which are going to become increasingly more severe.

The numbers that I just shared with you are not good.  But over the next several years they are going to get a whole lot worse.

Everything that can be shaken will be shaken, and life in America is about to change in a major way.

 

 

A Global Financial Reset Is Coming A Deal Is Being Made Between All The Central Banks’

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/a-global-financial-reset-is-coming-a-deal-is-being-made-between-all-the-central-banks_04052015

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com

There is an unprecedented reset coming to world financial markets and if you’ve been paying attention it’s impossible to ignore the signs. In fact mega-investment funds, governments and central banks have been secretly buying up and storing physical gold in anticipation of an event that will leave the U.S. dollar effectively worthless and governments around the world angling for a new global currency mechanism, according to mining executive Keith Neumeyer.

But before the reset can happen Neumeyer, who recently founded First Mining Finance and has partnered with billionaire alternative asset investors like Eric Sprott and Rick Rule, says that foreign creditors must first deleverage their U.S. dollar debt, a move that is happening right now and is evidenced by the recent strength of the U.S. dollar.

Once these U.S. debt holders unwind their positions, however, the dollar will be allowed to crash and we should prepare for a total financial, economic and monetary realignment.

(Watch the full interview at Future Money Trends)

With the central banks now buying gold… which is quite unique… we haven’t seen that in our lifetimes… they’ve always been sellers of gold and now they’re buyers of gold… I think there will be a reset of the financial industry… 

I think China is being allowed to accumulate gold purposefully by the American government… I believe that the Chinese need to own at least the same amount as the U.S. owns before this reset occurs. I think that there’s some kind of deal that’s being made between all the central banks behind the scenes and that’s why you’re seeing governments accumulating the metal.

I do believe there will be some kind of new currency created with the backing… and it might not be a direct backing of the metal… but it’ll be some kind of blend of currency.. it could be through SDR’s… Special Drawing Rights… or some type of mechanism… I think that’s where we’re going.

And when that reset occurs I think gold will be left to rise… and I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see three…four… five thousand dollar gold over the next five years.

Because the price of gold has been suppressed to allow governments and central banks to accumulate it cheaply, Neumeyer sees opportunity in the mining industry and that’s why his latest mineral bank project is mimicking their actions and buying up physical mining assets around the world.

And though Western mainstream media pundits argue that the recent strength of the U.S. stock market and the U.S. dollar are proof positive that an economic recovery has taken hold, Neumeyer says exactly the opposite is happening.

The reason for the recent rise in the value of the world’s reserve currency, he suggests, is a result of the massive unwinding of U.S. debt as private investors and governments around the globe know a rush for the exits is coming soon:

The view on the strength of the dollar recently is the fact that it’s short-term. You’ve got so much U.S. debt out there and governments are now getting rid of their U.S. debt and converting all the debt to local debt… that’s causing a huge demand for dollars in order to make that conversion, so this whole dollar rally is basically a deleveraging against the U.S. dollar… you’re not seeing that story showing up anywhere in North America.

Once the world is deleveraged than the U.S. dollar… then basically the U.S. dollar will crash and that will be the beginning of this new reset.

Everything, of course, is very hush-hush but, as Neumeyer explains, most of the influential players involved know exactly what is going on and they are making their moves right now to ensure they survive the coming financial reset:

The gold accumulation that’s going on… this is gold that’s outside of the system… you don’t hear about it… these are big sovereign wealth funds, these are government funds, these are banks that are buying the physical metal… they are very intimately involved in the sector and they know what’s going on.

Definitely world governments and central banks around the world are unwinding their U.S. debt. They’re trying to bring their debt home and that’s causing the upside pressure on the dollar.

If Neumeyer is right, and all the signs suggest his assessment is fairly accurate, then the recent strength of the U.S. dollar will be short-lived. Once deleveraging by governments and central banks has been completed they will unleash an economic, financial and monetary storm that will change the very fabric of the global order.

The consequences are difficult to predict, but given that these entities have been buying up gold like their lives depended on it, the notion of an ounce of the precious metal being valued at $5,000 per ounce isn’t out of the question.

Related posts:

1. The Hows and Whys of Gold Price Manipulation
2. Gold and Freedom
3. Trilateral Plan to Corner World Gold Market?
4. The Real Reasons that Germany Is Demanding that the U.S. Return Its Gold
5. More Fed minutes document gold market manipulation

 

Huge surge of unscreened Muslims flooding US.

http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/huge-surge-of-unscreened-muslims-flooding-u-s/#k4HlDjwlZqDOGCB9.99

By GREG COROMBOS

Feds ‘admit, under oath, that they have no idea who these people are’

Published: 03/26/2015 at 7:49 PM

Muslim immigration from dangerous nations is dramatically higher in recent years, and government assurances that immigrants are being properly screened is “a farce,” according to accomplished author and columnist Paul Sperry.

“It’s a huge surge under Obama. In the last three years, he’s averaged 100,000 new immigrants from Muslim nations a year. That is very alarming. It’s more than we’re importing both from Central America and Mexico combined. This is a big shift in immigration flows,” said Sperry, who is the author of “Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington” and co-author of “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America.”

“It’s really insane what we’re doing. No one’s really talking about it, but this mass immigration from Muslim countries poses a serious national security threat,” said Sperry, who is also a Hoover Institution media fellow and former Washington bureau chief of WND. Sperry frequently writes for the New York Post and Investor’s Business Daily.

The stated reason for the influx in recent years is the rise in refugees from war-torn nations like Syria and Iraq. The number of people accepted from Syria in particular baffles Sperry, who said there is a long standing policy of keeping Syrians at bay.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST! JAN. 27: Secret planting of up to 75,000 Syrian Muslims begins in U.S. – Obama hasn’t shown willingness to rescue Christian refugees

“Syria has always been on our terrorist list,” he said. “We have had very strict restrictions on Syrian immigration. Since Syria’s become a failed state, Obama’s increased the number of refugees. By the time he leaves office, we will be importing over 10,000 Syrians into this country. This is a concern because Iraq and Syria are now controlled by the Islamic State.”

In his startling book, “Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington,” Paul Sperry uses revealing interviews and classified documents to courageously explain how, for the past 30 years, Islamist extremists have been covertly working to destroy our constitutional government. Get “Infiltration” from the WND Superstore!

The government insists the case of each refugee is carefully scrutinized before he or she is allowed into the U.S. But Sperry said that claim is laughable.

At the top levels of the administration, DHS and so forth, they claim that these refugees are being vetted,” Sperry said. “But it’s a complete farce. We know that from testimony from the FBI officials who are in charge of that type of vetting process for terrorists coming in under visas and these refugee programs.”

Listen to the WND/Radio America interview with Paul Sperry:

What has the FBI testimony shown?

“They admit, under oath, that they have no idea who these people are, and they can’t find out what type of backgrounds they have, criminal, terrorism or otherwise, because there is no vetting opportunities,” Sperry said. “You can’t vet somebody if you don’t have documentation, police records, etc.”

He said, “Of course, Iraq and Syria are now failed states and the police. There are no police records, so we are not vetting these folks.”

Sperry said it’s a huge gamble to let people from hostile nations enter the U.S. without any meaningful background check.

“We have no idea if they’re going to come into this country to escape terrorism or to carry out terrorism. We have no idea, and they admit as much. For all we know, they could be joining a sleeper cell here,” said Sperry, who noted that Obama has also greatly increased the number of Saudis in the U.S. on student visas.

According to Sperry, the U.S. should be feverishly dialing back its acceptance of Muslims from questionable nations. He said Western Europe is a glaring example of what happens when more scrutiny is not paid to who enters the country. Sperry cites recent terror attacks and plots in Paris, Copenhagen and Brussels as proof that liberal immigration standards and refusal to demand assimilation is a breeding ground for disaster.

“They opened the floodgates for North African Muslims,” he said. “Now they regret it, of course, but it’s too late. Europe regrets doing what we’re doing now. We’re the ones who are rolling out the welcome mat for Muslims from these hostile nations.”

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST! JAN. 30: America’s newest ‘Most-Wanted Terrorist’ was ‘refugee’ – FBI: Muslim jhadist might re-enter country, ‘plot attacks on U.S. soil’

While Sperry is quick to clarify that the U.S. contains none of the no-go zones for police that are found in some major European cities, he said political figures in the U.S. are naive to think that Muslims are not effecting major change in communities across the country, including some just a stone’s throw from the nation’s capital.

“That’s just nonsense on stilts,” he said. “These politicians need to get out and go out into some of the communities just in their backyard. Alexandria, Virginia, for example, Bailey’s Crossroad. They actually call that area Northern Virginia-stan.”

Two major Midwestern cities are also cause for major concern to Sperry.

“Then you have Dearbornistan, Michigan, and Minneapolis,” he said. “We’ve brought in so many Somalian refugees that they’ve turned Minneapolis into a terror hot spot. They are very belligerent, very aggressive about asserting their culture onto the West. The Minneapolis mayor is now wearing a hijab when she meets with Muslim leaders.”

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST! FEB. 23: DHS hides crucial fact on ‘terrorist influx’ – Mall attackers recruited from 1 state in particular

Asserting the culture leads to a litany of other problems, Sperry said law enforcement has a tough time arresting Muslims in some areas for spousal abuse because it is allowed by the Quran if the wife is disobedient to her husband. He also said honor killings are on the rise, where fathers or brothers are permitted to murder Muslim girls for wearing Western clothing or dating a non-Muslim. Female genital mutilation is also a growing problem.

Sperry said it’s time to stop pretending America is not at war and take concrete measures to keep out people from suspect nations. He believes there’s an obvious place to start.

“They have a list of Muslim countries who are most hostile to the U.S. and the West,” Sperry said. “They rank them. We can start with those countries for a moratorium, putting some curbs on immigration from these countries.”

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If the lack of solid background information were not enough, Sperry said the FBI is hopelessly overwhelmed in trying to vet immigrants already in the country, so opening the doors to hundreds of thousands more makes the nation even more vulnerable.

“Our FBI doesn’t even have the resources to get a handle on all of the ISIS/jihadist threat in the Muslim community,” he said. “Now we’re going to lay on top of that all of these new immigrants who are even potentially more radical on top of that threat matrix. I mean that’s just ridiculous.”

But is it fair to let no one in from those countries when surely a sizable percentage has no interest in attacking the U.S.? Sperry said there’s no other choice.

“We just don’t have the information,” he said. “The FBI admits they don’t have the information on the ground that they need, unless the FBI is going to go into these failed states, which isn’t going to happen. They do not have the police records, the police reports that they can make objective decisions on these folks coming in.

“It’s a pure sympathy play to let all these folks in on blind trust. We just cannot do that.”

You are supposed to ‘believe’ that we are fighting terrorism…all the while our leadership cuts deals to end our military superiority, swamps our country with Sharia-Law believers who are radical and demand that we obey them, and the Vatican gives Easter messages akin to “be a doormat”.

PUT IT ALL TOGETHER, FOLKS….”invasion.’

 R.E. Sutherland, M.Ed./ sciences

Freelance Investigative Science Reporter since 1996

 

Former Presidents Warn About the Invisible Government Running the United States

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/09/13/former-presidents-warn-about-the-invisible-government-running-united-states/

Ross Pittman, Guest 
Waking Times

“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”– George Santayana

Past presidents of the United States and other high profile political leaders have repeatedly issued warnings over the last 214 years that the U.S. government is under the control of an “invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”

According to six of our former presidents, one vice-president, and a myriad of other high profile political leaders, an invisible government that is “incredibly evil in intent” has been in control of the U.S. government “ever since the days of Andrew Jackson” (since at least 1836).  They “virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both parties… It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.”

As a result, “we have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.”

The sources for the above quotes (and more) are listed below. All of the quotes in this article have been verified as authentic and have associated links to the source materials.  Also included below are statements made by David Rockefeller, Sr, former director of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and Federal Reserve Chairman’s Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke that appear to confirm some of the warnings.

Warnings About the Invisible Government Running the U.S.

The warnings listed below, which appear in chronological order, began with our first president – George Washington. The last president to speak out was JFK, who was assassinated. Read what they and other political leaders have said about the invisible government.

George Washington wrote that the Illuminati want to separate the People from their Government

“It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am. The idea that I meant to convey, was, that I did not believe that the Lodges of Free Masons in this Country had, as Societies, endeavoured to propagate the diabolical tenets of the first, or pernicious principles of the latter (if they are susceptible of seperation). That Individuals of them may… actually had a seperation [sic] of the People from their Government in view, is too evident to be questioned.” – George Washington, 1st President of the United States (1789–1797), from a letter that Washington wrote on October 24, 1798, which can be found in the Library of Congress.  For an analysis of Washington’s warning, see the article “Library of Congress: George Washington Warns of Illuminati”

“I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.” —Thomas Jefferson, dent of the United States (1801–1809) and principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776), in a letter written to John Taylor on May 28, 1816

“A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.” – John C. Calhoun, Vice President (1825-1832) and U.S. Senator, from a speech given on May 27, 1836

Note that it appears that Washington’s and Jefferson’s concerns regarding bankers and separation of the people from the government was realized by 1836.  This fact was confirmed in a letter written by FDR in 1933 (see below) in which he wrote that “a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.”  Jackson was the seventh president of the United States (1829-1937).  Calhoun served as Jackson’s vice-president from 1829-1832.

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.  To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography, 1913 (Appendix B)

“A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men… [W]e have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.” – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, The New Freedom, 1913

“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something.  They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, The New Freedom, 1913

“The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation… The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both parties, … and control the majority of the newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of office public officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. It operates under cover of a self-created screen [and] seizes our executive officers, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public protection.”  – New York City Mayor John F. Hylan, New York Times, March 26, 1922

“Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a Government board, has cheated the Government of the United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt…Mr. Chairman, when the Federal Reserve act was passed, the people of the United States did not perceive that a world system was being set up here… and that this country was to supply financial power to an international superstate — a superstate controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure.” – Congressman Louis T. McFadden, from a speech delivered to the House of Representatives on June 10, 1932

“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945), in a letter to Colonel Edward M House dated November 21, 1933, as quoted in F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945.

“Today the path to total dictatorship in the U.S. can be laid by strictly legal means… We have a well-organized political-action group in this country, determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party state… It operates secretly, silently, continuously to transform our Government… This ruthless power-seeking elite is a disease of our century… This group…is answerable neither to the President, the Congress, nor the courts. It is practically irremovable.” – Senator William Jenner, 1954 speech

“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.”  —J. Edgar Hoover, The Elks Magazine, 1956

“The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings… Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe… no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of “clear and present danger,” then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent… For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.” — John F Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, from a speech delivered to the American Newspaper Publishers Association on April 27, 1961 and known as the “Secret Society” speech (click here for full transcript and audio).

“The Rockefellers and their allies have, for at least fifty years, been carefully following a plan to use their economic power to gain political control of first America, and then the rest of the world.  Do I mean conspiracy? Yes, I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.” Congressman Larry P. McDonald, November 1975, from the introduction to a book titled The Rockefeller File.

“There exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.” – Daniel K. Inouye, US Senator from Hawaii, testimony at the Iran Contra Hearings, 1986

The Federal Reserve

“A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves…” – John C. Calhoun

“… owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“… one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Bank.“  – Louis T. McFadden

In an interview with Jim Lehrer that was aired on PBS’ News Hour on September 18, 2007 that you can watch on YouTube, formal Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said, essentially, that the Federal Reserve was above the law and that no agency of government can overrule their actions:

Jim Lehrer: “What is the proper relationship, what should be the proper relationship between a chairman of the Fed and a president of the United States?”

Alan Greenspan: “Well, first of all, the Federal Reserve is an independent agency, and that means, basically, that there is no other agency of government which can overrule actions that we take. So long as that is in place and there is no evidence that the administration or the Congress or anybody else is requesting that we do things other than what we think is the appropriate thing, then what the relationships are don’t frankly matter.”

The fact that the Fed is above the law was demonstrated by current Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, during his appearance before Congress on March 4, 2009 (as shown in this video). Senator Bernie Sanders asked Bernanke about $2.2 trillion in American tax dollars that was lent out by Federal Reserve. Bernanke refused to provide an answer:

Senator Sanders: “Will you tell the American people to whom you lent $2.2 trillion of their dollars? … Can you tell us who they are?”

Bernanke: “No”

David Rockefeller and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

“We have a well-organized political-action group in this country, determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party state…” – William Jenner

“The Rockefellers and their allies have, for at least fifty years, been carefully following a plan to use their economic power to gain political control of first America, and then the rest of the world.” – Larry P. McDonald

In 1921 the stockholders of the Federal Reserve financed an organization called the “Council on Foreign Relations” (CFR).  A full discussion on the CFR is beyond the scope of this article.  Suffice it to say that the CFR likely plays a prominent role in the invisible government that we have been warned about. The CFR is alleged to be the arm of the Ruling Elite in the United States. Most influential politicians, academics and media personalities are members. The CFR uses its influence to push their New World Order agenda on the American people.

David Rockefeller, Sr is the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family. He is the only surviving grandchild of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil.  Rockefeller began a lifelong association with the CFR when he joined as a director in 1949.  In Rockefeller’s 2002 autobiography “Memoirs” he wrote:

“For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as internationalists and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure — one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”

James Warburg, son of CFR [Council on Foreign Relations] founder Paul Warburg, delivered blunt testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17, 1950:

“We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest.”

Cognitive Dissonance

“The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.”  —J. Edgar Hoover

Because of a deep rooted beliefs that the U.S. government is “for the people” and the protector of the free world, many will reject the notion of an evil shadow government.  When our beliefs are challenged or when two beliefs are inconsistent, cognitive dissonance is created. It’s human nature to try to hold our beliefs in harmony with our world view and avoid disharmony (or dissonance).

For those of you who having difficulty believing the information presented in this article, I fully  understand.  For the first 57 years of my life, I would not have believed in the possibility that a shadow government could exist.  Three years ago my world view changed. While on vacation in Mount Shasta, I came across a book titled “Global Conspiracy” that seemed strangely out of place in a metaphysical book store.  I had never heard of the author before – some guy named David Icke.  I scanned through the book and frankly didn’t believe 99% of what I read.  But, I saw one thing that caught my attention in that I knew that I could easily verify Icke’s assertion.  I did my own research and turned out what Icke had stated was true.  That led me down a rabbit hole and many, many hundreds of hours of independent research.

So, keep an open mind, do your own research, and use discernment.   Beware that there is a ton of disinformation on the internet, much of which is intentionally placed to confuse the public.  At a CFR meeting on geoengineering (see the article “Millions Spent to Confuse Public About Geoengineering“),  M. Granger Morgan stated (it’s captured on video for you to see and hear for yourself):

“First of all, of course, there is a lot of money getting spent to make sure that a very substantial portion of the public stays totally confused about this. And, I mean, it’s been really quite pernicious. But there’s been literally tens of millions of dollars spent on every little thing that comes along that might, you know, relate to some uncertainty.”

What Can We Do?

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead

In addition to doing your own research, please spread the word, and get involved. The http://www.thrivemovement.com/solutions-hub is an excellent place to join with others who are taking positive action steps to expose corruption and to create a world in which we can all thrive. You can watch the full Thrive movie on YouTube here.

About the Author

Ross Pittman is the Editor of ConsciousLife News, where this article was originally featured.

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