Obama Handing U.S. Sovereignty to United Nations? The UN and Interpol: How the UN Will Gain Power.

 

Watch for it, because it is bound to come.

While you weren’t looking, Obama signed Executive Order 12425 giving Interpol immunity from American laws.

***Make sure to read this blog ALL THE WAY THROUGH.  Connections of Pachuri and Soros to the United Nations Millennium goals!**

An article written by Barry Napier on December 30, 2009  should BE READ by EVERY American.  Realize what Obama is doing when YOU aren’t looking:

It is interesting that the man who cast aside the US Constitution like a rag, and imposes his own laws without consent, has agreed to allow an international police authority to overrule the US government.

Barack Obama signed an Executive Order giving express permission for Interpol to supersede the laws and police authorities of the USA.

Some have seen this as heralding loss of sovereignty. The truth is, the USA already lost it when it voted for Obama. Before the election he promised to hand over sovereignty to the UN, and this will indeed occur if the people allow him to carry on implementing his own Executive Orders without the consent of Congress or the people!

Interpol

Interpol operates with the consent of 188 member countries (so far). Its aim is to combat international crime and seek cross-country police cooperation. This is based on the “limits of existing laws in different countries and in the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (which has itself caused more mayhem than it is worth). Its constitution prohibits being involved in political, military, religious or racial conflict. Tell that to the fairies!

In 2005, Interpol briefed members of the UN’s Security Council Counter Terrorism Committee on its work to combat terrorism and its “growing cooperation with the UN in a range of anti-crime areas”. But, what is considered to be ‘crime’? Whatever the UN decides it will be.

Interpol has an office in the UN’s New York building. The links between Interpol and the UN are very strong, if not interwoven. Interpol spokesmen say that Interpol can give “teeth and real impact to Security Council Resolutions”.

According to Interpol’s Article 2, Interpol is looking for “new opportunities” to expand its operations within the UN. In other words, Interpol is to be the police eyes and ears of the UN worldwide. Doesn’t this sound rather familiar? (If it doesn’t, read up on Soviet KGB operations). Remember, too, that anti-environmentalism is being called ‘terrorism’. 

Interpol has a worldwide anti-terrorism network. Yet, Obama is nestling up to terrorist organisations and countries. This means that the central theme of ‘terrorism’ will change dramatically under Obama. Also, Obama is planning to make the owning of small arms illegal, effectively making US people defenceless, not just before criminals but also before government. Interpol will be used to discover and arrest those who own small arms.

Another aim of Interpol is to provide support for UN peacekeeping missions. Anyone who knows the truth recognises that these UN peacekeeping missions are anything but! They are killing sprees, with UN troops at the helm, making sure Marxist regimes stay in power, or gain power. How can Interpol claim neutrality when it assists UN troops in murderous ‘peacekeeping’?

This is of prime importance when Interpol says that another area of crime it wishes to obliterate is “Genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity”. Yet, the UN Charter includes the notion of genocide, its troops are guilty of war crimes, and the UN says that anti-greens are acting against humanity!

Anti-Greens are ‘Criminals’

According to Interpol, “Environmental crime is a serious and growing international problem… it is not limited to criminals polluting the air, water and land and pushing commercially valuable wildlife species closer to extinction; it can also include crimes which speed up climate change… and exhaust essential natural resources.” What did Interpol say about not being involved in politics?

Very clearly, Interpol is working behind the scenes to identify ‘criminals’ who oppose climate change plans by the UN! Can’t you see what is going on? Can’t you see that we are seeing the creation of a Marxist regime far greater than the Soviets could have dreamt of? Far greater than the one now existing in China?

Interpol speaks of these ‘crimes’ as being harmful to the economy and security… blatant political propaganda dressed up in police uniforms! What has a police organisation got to do with the economy? The economy is to do with politics!

The organisation says that organised crime is behind anti-green activities. This tells us which way Obama and the UN are moving to silence their foes. “In this way we can contribute to the ongoing conservation of the world’s environment, biodiversity and natural resources.”  This is nothing but police being used as the strong-arm men of the UN to silence anti-green activity. What has a police organisation to do with ‘conservation’ and ‘natural resources’? Nothing! But, under the UN, Interpol will make very sure people like me are eliminated. (Of course, before that, they will ensure that our names are ridiculed and our protests are muffled, which works just as well).

One must ask Interpol why it doesn’t investigate the CRU at East Anglia University, or other scientists about their fraud, or Greenpeace about its sabotage… or Obama and Brown taxing the people fraudulently.

“Corruption undermines political, social and economic stability”. In which case, why isn’t Interpol investigating every country involved in the recent Copenhagen Summit, or that imposes tax based on fraudulent green claims? It is evident that Interpol is not genuine!

UN and ‘Natural partners’ (un.org 11th October, 2009)

The UN already has its own police force (UNPOL) – did you know that? But, Interpol will take precedence. The UN’s Secretary General says that the “only way to succeed is to join forces.” Succeed at what? The UN has no place in the world, but it acts anyway! Wherever it goes it creates, not reduces, conflict, often to the point of murder, rape and pillage… and I am taking here about UN troops.

The UN Security Council, supposed to look after peace and reduce tensions, is dominated by Islamic countries that hate Israel. Every meeting starts with hateful statements against Israel. Every meeting begins with demands to sanction Israel. Therefore, Interpol is part of this hate campaign against the Israeli nation, by siding with Islamic extremist governments who make their own ‘laws’ against Israel! What you think of Israel is not the issue. The real issue is that if the UN gets away with this, the next one to suffer could easily be YOU.

Singapore Summit

On 11th October, 2009, Interpol’s Secretary General met with the UN’s Secretary General in Singapore. In the meeting praise was given to police forces joining together to fight organised crimes worldwide. This is fine. But, they don’t need the UN for this! The UN is a Marxist organisation, corrupt and trouble-making.

The opening speech spoke of a new era when Interpol will work with the UN by “entering into a strategic partnership to promote state stability, and, in turn, global law and order.” Police forces can do this on their own – they don’t need the sticky fingers of the UN.

Law officers are seconded to Interpol for particular operations, so, in theory, there are no actual ‘Interpol officers’. But, with the USA being handed over to the UN by Obama, it makes no real difference – the UN will control what local officers, FBI, etc., do. UN Dispatch.com (23rd December) says that all this is just ‘fear mongering’. Is it? Given Obama’s lamentable record in his first year of office (assuming he is there legitimately, of course), we have every right to be concerned.

The Norwegian UN mission (Norway-un.org 16th April 2009) states: “the role of the police is considered pivotal in consolidating peace and building sustainable security.” Perhaps Norway should go back a few years and remember how this worked when Hitler decided to make his land-grab! In every country Hitler took, the ‘pivotal’ force was the national and local police forces. They made sure Nazi plans were adhered to, and arrested anyone who didn’t make the grade, often leading to their deaths. Fear mongering?

No, it is a step closer to “common goals of global security and peace”. The best peace we can have is to retain national borders and national policing. The worst move is to bring in the UN and its notion of Marxist world government.

Secretary General of Secrecy

It is no coincidence that this joining of the UN and Interpol should come under the Secretary-Generalship of Ronald K Noble. He is a tenured professor of law at New York University, and previously worked as the US Dept of Treasury as First Undersecretary for Enforcement. He has held many law-related positions in the US and has Obama’s right hand.

This man is complicit in the aim of Obama to keep documents from the sight of Americans, by claiming protection for Interpol officers who are now able to work with diplomatic immunity. Thus, any documents Obama wants hidden can simply be given to Interpol! In this way Obama jumps over the head of the Constitution, and Interpol are not held to the Freedom of Information Act. This is all going on underneath your noses! I wonder if this is where Obama’s birth certificate will be going?

During Hitler’s time, Interpol was under the command of the SS. (Freedomswings.wordpress.com). The FBI sought membership of Interpol in 1938, despite it being riddled with, and ruled by, the SS. Thus, today, only the type of socialism has changed… Interpol is now under Marxist rule. The continued membership of the USA in Interpol, and the new status of Interpol as diplomatic, with immunity, means that Obama can operate under the radar as much as he likes, by placing documents with Interpol. And Interpol can be used as the bully-boys of state, with no come-backs.

Interpol will work alongside the UN’s stormtroopers, as enforcers of UN laws and whims. It has immunity in the USA – no doubt it will gain immunity in many more countries as they mimic Obama’s duplicity. They will investigate and arrest any who dare to oppose UN policies, whether social, criminal or economic, including anti-greens. Watch for it, because it is bound to come.

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If the Socialists/Communists can’t gain control of the United States one way, they will try another.

It is called Eco-Socialism.

From the Committees of Correspondence and Democratic Socialism (offshoot of Communist Party USA):

 

Eco socialism means approaching environmental needs from a socialist perspective. Not just analyzing climate change from a Marxist perspective, but recognizing that an applied socialist approach is necessary to prevent catastrophic climate changes that will harm us all.

 

Today, most socialist organizations recognize green organizing must be an essential part of their work. Most have started promoting both practical short term efforts to preserve our ecosystem and long term efforts to reform our political economic systems so that we may best survive the changes that are already underway andthe greater changes that threaten.

http://cc-ds.org/discussion/Why_eco-socialism.pdf

Obama is hell-bent on turning America’s sovereignty over to the United Nations.

UN to Review Progress on the Millennium Development Goals
at High-level Meeting in September 2010

“Time is short. We must seize this historic moment to
act responsibly and decisively for the common good.”

With only six years until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon chose these words to strongly urge Governments to engage constructively in the preparations for a high-level meeting in September 2010 to review progress towards the MDGs and other international development goals.

The UN General Assembly took a decision in July 2009 to hold such a high-level plenary meeting at the opening of its 65th session in 2010. At the Assembly’s request, the Secretary-General has issued a report setting out a proposed format and modalities for the event, which are expected to be agreed through consultations before the end of 2009. The Assembly has encouraged all countries to be represented at this important meeting at the level of Heads of State and Government.

In the 2009 Millennium Development Goals Report released earlier this year, the Secretary-General noted: “We have made important progress in this effort, and have many successes on which to build. But we have been moving too slowly to meet our goals”. The 2010 high-level meeting, he hopes, will not only result in a renewal of existing commitments but also can decisively galvanize coordinated action among all stakeholders and elicit the funding needed to ensure the achievement of the Goals by 2015.

Read the United Nations Millenium Development Goals:

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/sept_2010_more.shtml

NOW FOR THE UNITED NATIONS CONNECTIONS OF SOROS and PACHURI:

 
The Millennium Project was commissioned by the United Nations Secretary-General in 2002 to develop a concrete action plan for the world to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and to reverse the grinding poverty, hunger and disease affecting billions of people. In 2005, the independent advisory body headed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs, presented its final recommendations to the Secretary-General in a synthesis volume Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The bulk of the Project’s work was carried out by 10 thematic Task Forces, each of which also presented its own detailed recommendations in January 2005. The Task Forces comprised a total of more than 250 experts from around the world including: researchers and scientists; policymakers; representatives of NGOs, UN agencies, the World Bank, IMF and the private sector.

After the presentation of the Millennium Project’s final reports, the secretariat team worked in an advisory capacity through to the end of 2006 to support the implementation of the Project’s recommendations, with special focus on supporting developing countries’ preparation of national development strategies aligned with achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/index.htm

The advisory body headed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs: WHO is Professor Jeffrey Sachs?

Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. From 2002 to 2006, he was Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015. Sachs is also President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization aimed at ending extreme global poverty.

http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/1804

AND WHO IS ON THE EXTERNAL ADVISORY BOARD OF THE EARTH INSTITUTE?

The External Advisory Board provides guidance regarding priorities in science, public policy, and teaching, among other issues for the Earth Institute. The Board meets annually in New York City.

Board members INCLUDE:

Dr. Rajendra K Pachauri

Dr. Rajendra K Pachauri was born in Nainital, India, on 20 August 1940. He assumed his current responsibilities as the head of TERI (Tata Energy Research Institute) in 1981, first as Director and, since April 2001, as Director-General. TERI generates unparalleled and original research, and from that provides professional support in the areas of energy, environment, forestry, biotechnology, and the conservation of natural resources to government departments, institutions, and corporate organizations worldwide.

**Part of Climategate scandal***

AND NONE OTHER THAN:

 

Mr. George Soros
President Soros Fund Management

George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary on August 12, 1930. He survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest and left communist Hungary in 1947 for England, where he graduated from the London School of Economics. Today Soros is President and Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC, a private investment management firm that serves as principal advisor to the Quantum Group of Funds, a series of international investment vehicles. The Quantum Fund is generally recognized as the most successful investment fund ever, returning an average 31% annually throughout its 32-year history.

Soros is also Chairman of the Open Society Institute and the founder of a network of philanthropic organizations that are active in more than 50 countries. Based primarily in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union—but also in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the United States—these foundations are dedicated to building and maintaining the infrastructure and institutions of an open society. In 1992, Soros founded the Central European University, with its primary campus in Budapest.

Soros is the author of seven books, most recently “George Soros on Globalization” (Public Affairs, March 2002). His articles and essays on politics, society, and economics regularly appear in major newspapers and magazines around the world. Soros has received honorary degrees from the New School for Social Research, the University of Oxford, the Budapest University of Economics, and Yale University. In 1995, the University of Bologna awarded Soros its highest honor, the Laurea Honoris Causa, in recognition of his efforts to promote open societies throughout the world.

http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/1006

So George Soros who is tied to the United Nations in one form or another is part of the Earth Institute and an arm of eco-socialism.

Interpol will be used as the United Nations foot soldiers that will be immune from American law thanks to Obama’s Executive Order.

America:  ARE YOU GETTING THIS?

And Congresses’ reaction to this?…………….crickets……………..crickets………crickets.

Eric Holder’s Firm May Have Represented Undie Bomber Mastermind Before His Release

 

Eric Holder’s past gets muddier by the minute.  Holder tied to FARC, was participatory in the pardon of Marc Rich and now this:

Jim Hoft writes on December 30, 2009:

The leaders of the Detroit undie bomber’s Al-Qaeda group are Gitmo Grads and may have been represented by Eric Holder’s firm before their release.

Two Gitmo grads rehabilitated in Saudi Arabia rejoined the jihad and made a movie earlier this year.

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Sufyan al-Azdi al-Shahri (right) and former Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi appeared in a threatening Al-Qaeda movie earlier this year. Said Ali al-Shihri (or al-Shahri) passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with Al Qaeda in Yemen. (AFP)

The two set up their base in Yemen.

This week Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen, claimed responsibility for Friday’s attempted bombing of a Delta Airlines plane as it approached Detroit on a flight from Amsterdam with almost 300 people on board. The terror group released its message on several Al-Qaeda-linked websites. Two former Gitmo grads lead this Al-Qaeda organization in Yemen.

There are questions on whether Eric Holder’s former law firm represented these Al-Qaeda leaders in Yemen who were the masterminds behind the attempted Christmas plane bombing.
Jammie Wearing Fool reported this from Pipeline News that Holder’s law firm may have represented the former Gitmo detainees who are Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leaders.

There is an additional and intriguing angle involving Yemen, creating a confluence between, that country, Ft. Hood and the Obama administration, in that U.S. AG Holder’s former law firm, Covington & Burling, represented a number of Yemeni detainees who are/were being held in GITMO.

It was meddling by committed lefty attorneys which made military prosecution of the GITMO detainees so difficult. Relentless pressure applied by these advocates is what ultimately led to the Hamden decision [Hamden vs. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557, 2006] in which the military tribunal system established by the Bush administration – relying upon long historical precedent – was overturned on a 5-3 Supreme Court decision, which for the first time in American history applied principles codified in the Geneva Accords to terrorists to which Geneva was long understood not to apply.

As we noted in a February piece [Former Partner Of Eric Holder's Law Firm Represents Cole Bomber And 14 Other GITMO Detainees, http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=holder1id=2.9.09%2Ehtm ] the involvement in this process by Holder’s old law firm was substantial.

After a year in office we all know that Barack Obama is the most radical anti-American president in US history.
But the fact that his Attorney General’s former firm may have represented Al-Qaeda killers who are now planning attacks against innocent Americans takes it to a whole new level.

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THEN ADD THIS:

AG Eric Holder’s Law Firm Represented 18 Gitmo Detainees After Volunteering to Give Them Free Legal Assistance, Filed Endless Lawsuits in US Courts…

Link

These lawsuits filed against the American people led to the delay of Bush’s military-trials, accounting for the ”eight years of delay” the Obama administration has used as justification for the 9/11 plotters being tried in civilian court…unreal….

(NRO)- Of all the infuriating aspects of the decision to transfer five 9/11 war criminals to civilian federal court, the one that grates most is the contention that the Obama administration is finally moving forward after “eight years of delay” — as Attorney General Eric Holder put it at his Friday press conference — during which the Bush administration managed to complete only three military-commission trials.
 
This is chutzpah writ large. The principal reason there were so few military trials is the tireless campaign conducted by leftist lawyers to derail military tribunals by challenging them in the courts. Many of those lawyers are now working for the Obama Justice Department. That includes Holder, whose firm, Covington & Burling, volunteered its services to at least 18 of America’s enemies in lawsuits they brought against the American people. (During 2007 alone, Covington contributed more than 3,000 hours of free, top-flight legal assistance to our enemy detainees.)

Rest here>>>

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End note:

This deserves a vote of “no-confidence” in this Administrations’ efforts to protect Americans from terrorists hell-bent on destroying America.

You?

Eric Holder’s response?…………..crickets………………crickets………….crickets.

FDIC as QUANGO (quasi autonomous non-governmental organization)? Sheila Bair of FDIC Mixes with Unions and Activists Against Banks.

 

What does Sheila Bair of the FDIC have in common with the SEIU?

First this:

An article, written by Grant Ellis at American Thinker about the FDIC and its agenda.

December 30, 2009

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is the federal agency that insures bank deposits. Basically, they backstop banks to ensure that depositors don’t lose their money (up to a limit) if the bank fails.  Given that the FDIC is “on the hook” for the insured deposits under the control of banks, the agency takes great interest (no pun intended) in the financial health of banks. Ultimately, through examination and regulation, the FDIC determines when a bank has failed and it then arranges the auction that sell the assets of the failed bank to a healthy bank or even a private equity group. Good so far.

Now it seems that the FDIC is no longer satisfied with its role as referee. In fact, it wants to be a player. As delineated in the WSJ article FDIC to Seize Slice Of Bank-Stock Rallies, the FDIC is going to require the buyers of failed banks to fork over a cash “bonus”, AFTER the auction/acquisition, based on the buyers stock value which typically rallies following the acquisition. To be even-handed about it, the FDIC will also agree to share in any post-acquisition losses.

At first blush, the FDIC’s interest in capitalism  may seem sensible, particularly given that the reserves it holds for deposit insurance purposes have dwindled under the weight of 140+/- bank failures in 2009. In other words, why not skim off a little “profit” to replenish reserves that are otherwise taxpayer funded? The problem, as noted above, is that in so doing, the FDIC becomes a player on the same field it regulates. This opens a Pandora’s conflict-of-interest Box of potentially epic proportion. Here are but a few of the concerns:

•·       The FDIC’s role in bank closing could be called into question if it stands to “profit” on the stock rally of the acquiring bank. Perhaps better stated, the FDIC may be perceived as acting to close a bank on motives that are not purely regulatory.

•·       The FDIC’s willingness to “share” in post-acquisition losses actually puts taxpayers “on the hook” in a way that does not seem to fit FDIC’s insurance function.

•·       The auction price offered for failed banks, otherwise guided by free-market capitalism will undoubtedly be skewed by the FDIC’s participation in post-acquisition stock performance.

•       Shareholders of the acquiring bank, as investors, are entitled to the proceeds of any post-acquisition stock rally and likewise should be responsible for any post-acquisition stock losses (it’s called capitalism).

The FDIC has no business (literally) expanding its Glass-Steagall charter as regulator/insurer. In so doing, the federal government becomes an insurgent, corrupting free-market capitalism as it has done by seizing parts of publicly traded “too big to fail” financial institutions and manufacturers.

Congress needs to draw a line here. If it fails to do so, there is little doubt that this sort of federal insurgency will eventually morph into full-blown fascism.

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 Then add this:

 

From the SEIU blog site:

Sheila Bair is an exceptional speaker – I know because she just spoke at the Showdown in Chicago. She talked about the importance of stopping the greedy Wall Street practices like predatory lending, sub-prime mortgages, and lack of regulation that led us into financial crisis.

She also took something from us to give to the ABA. It’s the letter that we tried to give them ourselves yesterday, but they kicked us out. Will they kick Chairwoman Bair out, too? We’ll soon find out.

Here’s the video:

Sheila Bair speaks to the Showdown in Chicago rally prior to them marching in the streets against the ABA meeting in Chicago in October 27-30 2009.

Dick Durbin was there.  Tom Balanoff was there. Jesse Jackson was there.

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FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair Addresses Thousands of Taxpayers at Showdown in Chicago in Support of President Obama’s New Consumer Protection Agency

Groups participating in the three days of mobilizations include: A New Way Forward, AFL-CIO, Action Now, Albany Park Neighborhood Council, Alliance to Develop Power (ADP), Americans for Fairness in Lending, Americans for Financial Reform, ARISE Chicago, Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, Central Illinois Organizing Project (CIOP), Center for Community Change (CCC), Change in Terms, Change to Win, Citizen Action, Chicago Coalition of the Homeless, Communities United for Action (CUFA), Community Voices Heard (CVH), Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization (CCISCO), Grassroots Collaborative, Green Party of Nevada, Fuerza Laboral/Power of Workers, Illinois Hunger Coalition, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, Jobs with Justice, Gender Just Metanoia Centers, Inc., Michigan People’s Action (MPA), MoveOn, National People’s Action, Northside Action for Justice, Northside POWER, Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition, People Organized for West Side Renewal (POWER), PUSH Buffalo, Right to the City Alliance, Rights for All People (RAP), Roomdad Productions, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), SEIU Illinois State Council, SOUL, South Austin Coalition Community Council (SACCC), Sunflower Community Action, Syracuse United Neighbors (SUN), Teach Our Children (TOC), The Grassroots Collaborate, UE, UCLA Undergraduate Students Association, Workers United, and Working In Neighborhoods (WIN).

http://www.examiner.com/p-423934~FDIC_Chairman_Sheila_Bair_Addresses_Thousands_of_Taxpayers_at_Showdown_in_Chicago_in_Support_of_President_Obama_s_New_Consumer_Protection_Agency.html

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Sheila Bair, the Chairman of the FDIC is participating in a rally AGAINST the American Banker’s Association…….

Yet, now wants a “piece of the action” in bailing out banks?

A problem here?

YOU DECIDE.

DOJ Issues Gag Order In Black Panther Probe

 

The Judicial Watch blog issues this article: **ALL CREDITS GO TO JUDICIAL WATCH

December 18, 2009

The Justice Department has ordered government lawyers who filed a complaint against the New Black Panther Party for intimidating voters in last year’s presidential election not to cooperate with a nonpartisan civil rights commission investigating how the Obama Administration handled the case.

Federal prosecutors filed a civil complaint in Philadelphia against members of the radical black revolutionary group for bullying voters with racial insults, profanity and weapons. Clad in military attire, the Black Panther thugs were captured on video in front of precincts during the 2008 presidential election. 

But the case was abruptly killed by a top Justice Department official just as a federal judge was preparing to punish the Black Panthers for ignoring the charges and refusing to appear in court. The order came from Loretta King, who at the time was President Obama’s acting assistant Attorney General for the civil rights division. No explanation was offered for the sudden dismissal and outrage ensued among federal prosecutors handling the case. 

Now the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, a fact-finding nonpartisan agency with subpoena power to investigate discrimination complaints—including allegations that citizens are deprived of their right to vote—is digging into the matter. The panel, which has eight commissioners—four appointed by the president and the rest appointed by Congress—then submits reports, findings and recommendations to the White House and legislature.

Last week the commission subpoenaed at least two Justice Department lawyers involved in the Black Panther case and sought documents from the agency to explain why the complaint was dropped, according to a news report published this week. A top Justice Department official ordered the government attorneys’ silence in a letter that said “well-established” and “lawful” Justice Department guidelines prohibit cooperation in the commission probe.

The letter further trashes the Civil Rights Commission and diminishes its mission by saying that it “possesses no authority to initiate criminal prosecution of anyone” and does not have the authority to enforce subpoenas. The commission only has the ability to make referrals and recommendations to the Justice Department, the directive says. 

A member of the Civil Rights Commission challenged the gag order, pointing out that his panel is duly authorized by statute to review and report on enforcement activities of the Justice Department and similar government agencies. The commission’s job, he reminds, is to serve as a watchdog of federal and state enforcement agencies. That is why Congress has instructed all agencies to comply fully with the commission’s request, he said.  [Emphasis added here]

The Civil Rights Commission launched the probe, which could include public hearings in Washington and Philadelphia, to reveal whether the decision to drop the charges against the Black Panthers constituted a departure from prior enforcement policy. It also wants to determine if the Justice Department’s actions might lead to more illegal voter intimidation in future elections.

The Obama Administration clearly doesn’t want the details of this heated case and apparent coverup to be made public. Otherwise, it would allow federal prosecutors to cooperate fully with the Civil Rights Commission’s investigation. Yet another promise of unprecedented transparency has been broken by the commander-in-chief. 

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2009/dec/doj-issues-gag-order-black-panther-probe

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My own end note:

WHAT is the White House afraid of? Could it be the pathway and investigation might lead back to them? To Obama? To David Axelrod? To Rahm Emanuel?

Is Eric Holder connected to the Black Panthers?

Sunshine has a way of being a wonderful disinfectant…….

Pelosi’s Very Private Hawaii vacation

 

Does anyone find this disturbing?  Pelosi in Hawaii; Obama in Hawaii. Is the “conferencing” of the Healthcare bill going on without the rest of Congress’ knowledge?  Where is Harry Reid? Is Rahm there?  This should send up a red flag or two; but will it?

By Thomas Lifson

December 29, 2009

In stark contrast to Sarah Palin, whose Hawaii vacation was photographed and touted in the press, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is enjoying a very private luxurious time at the Four Seasons Hualalai resort on the Big Island. Andrew Walden, editor of Hawaii Free Press, reports:

Guarded by U.S. Capitol Police bolstered by officers on loan from the Hawaii County PD, Pelosi is enjoying what Hollywood Reporter calls: “…a picture-perfect stretch of beach on the Big Island’s chic Kona Coast….a private Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course and Pahu’ia, an award-winning oceanfront restaurant, $40 million worth of enhancements…20 new suites and … its lauded Hualalai Spa.”

 

According to the Hualalai Spa website, Pelosi may, “Enjoy complimentary pre-treatment rituals, relaxing by a quiet stream in the open-air Waiea, or Water of Life, garden. Or savour the lap pool, whirlpools, saunas, steam rooms and cold plunges, all set amidst lush greenery. (Pelosi’s) choice of skin-care and massage treatments may be enjoyed outdoors in our exotic new hales, secluded for privacy…. With the guidance of (her) spa therapist, (Pelosi may) choose from more than 20 local natural ingredients – from Hawaiian sea salt to crushed macadamia nuts – which are custom-blended to create unique personalized treatments.”

 

It is not clear how Pelosi arrived on the Big Isle.  Her controversial military transport is not immediately visible amidst the forest of private jets which now crowd Kona’s Keahole Airport South Tarmac.  Hawaii County is hard hit by shrinking tax receipts caused by the Obama recession, but Hawaii County Police Department spokesperson Chris Loos states that the department was able to aid Pelosi’s security detail without canceling other scheduled enforcement activities.  Loos did not provide an estimate of the expense incurred by the County PD. 

 

Of course, Pelosi is a “progressive” who cares about the little guy, so no media figures think her luxury break is worth mentioning.

 

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/12/pelosis_very_private_hawaii_va.html

 

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End notes:

 

1.  It would be interesting to find out if Rahm Emanuel is one of the “family and friends” members that is sharing Hawaii with Obama.

 

2.  This picture says a thousand words:

Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel

3.  Take a island hopper helicopter and viola……

4.  WHY didn’t Pelosi go to American Samoa with hubby?  Husband has BIG connections to American Samoa.  Or WHY didn’t Pelosi and hubby go to their vineyards?  Bet the water to Pelosi’s vineyards wasn’t shut off for a feeder fish.

Elitism at its best.  Will the taxpayer be on the “hook” for Pelosi’s Hawaiian vacation too?  Transportation, Security, embodiments, housing, etc.

 

 

AMERICA!  ARE YOU GETTING THE PICTURE YET?

 

Obama Officials, Dems Support Global Socialism

 

December 28, 2009

Cliff Kincaid writes about the connections of the Democrats and the Party of European Socialists and their ideals of Global Socialism.

As AIM has disclosed, there is a secret plan by left-wing non-governmental organizations to bring about this global tax over the next several months.

Former Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean said on December 8 that “cooperation” between European socialists and the Democratic Party has “intensified significantly” over the last several years and involves “regular contact” at “Congress, Senate, party and foundation levels.” He added that “efforts have been remarkable from both sides.”

But at a “Global Progress Conference” in October, President Barack Obama’s pollster, Joel Benenson, acknowledged that socialized medicine in the U.S. faces a serious obstacle. He said that while Europeans are receptive to the expansion of government in their lives, in America there is an anti-government culture which prevents people from “expecting the State to solve their problems.”
“This explains why Obama will find it difficult to implement the social coverage plans such as a broader health service,” Benenson reportedly said.

The conference was held in Madrid, Spain under the patronage of Spain’s socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, whose pro-homosexual and pro-abortion policies have led to street protests by thousands of supporters of traditional values. Zapatero is also under fire for a jobless rate of nearly 18 percent.

Dean’s comments came in a video address in which he joked that his failure to personally attend the Party of European Socialists (PES) convention, which was advertised as a “carbon neutral congress,” was actually a smart move because he avoided flying and contributing to global warming. “We’ve saved a lot of carbon,” Dean said.
In his comments, Dean called for a “long-term global vision” for the transformation of the global economy and mentioned that disgraced Democratic President Bill Clinton had previously spoken at a meeting of the PES-sponsored Global Progressive Forum. The April 2-3 Global Progressive Forum also featured Robert Borosage of the left-wing group that calls itself the Campaign for America’s Future.

The Global Progressive Forum is also sponsored by the Socialist International, whose U.S. affiliate, the Democratic Socialists of America, includes long-time backers of Barack Obama.

“Free-market globalization alone cannot achieve social justice,” Dean told the PES convention.  “What the world needs is a global New Deal.”

He defined this as a “transition to a low-carbon economy” involving “a major transformation in the patterns of production and consumption.” This will include “large-scale investments and mechanisms” to share the costs and the policies, he said. His remarks came on the eve of the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen.

Dean never used the words “world government,” but did declare that “We need a new institutional framework to govern, manage and monitor implementation.”
In order to bring this about, the PES Congress issued a “Call to Action” urging the imposition of a “global financial transaction tax” that would generate hundreds of billions of dollars and “provide funding for long-term public investments, to finance global development and climate change.”

As AIM has disclosed, there is a secret plan by left-wing non-governmental organizations to bring about this global tax over the next several months.

In another PES document, “A New Direction for Progressive Societies,” the group urged a “progressive peace policy” that says “…we fully support the initiative of the US administration in favor of global disarmament” and urges the “deepening [of] transatlantic cooperation with the new US administration.”

“It is our profound conviction that we must secure a Global New Deal for a new global order of social justice, equality, sustainable development and democracy,” the document concludes.
Howard Dean’s involvement with the PES is actually an old story. In our February 14, 2008, column, “Obama’s International Socialist Connections,” we noted that:

“Another group associated with the SI [Socialist International] is the Party of European Socialists (PES), which heard from Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, back in 2006. Dean’s speech is posted on the official Democratic Party website, although the European socialist parties are referred to as ‘progressive.’ Democrats, Dean said, want to be ‘good citizens of the world community.’ He spoke at a session on ‘Global Challenges for Progressive Politics.’”  

Following up, in April 2007, PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen reported that European socialists held a meeting “in the Democrats HQ in Washington,” met with officials of the party and Democratic members of Congress, and agreed that “PES activist groups” in various U.S. cities would start working together.

Photos of the trip showed Rasmussen meeting with such figures as Senator Ben Cardin, Senator Bernie Sanders, officials of the Brookings Institution, Howard Dean, and AFL-CIO President John W. Sweeney, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. The Brookings Institution is headed by former Clinton State Department official Strobe Talbott, a proponent of world government who was identified in the book Comrade J as having been a pawn of the Russian intelligence service.

The “Global New Deal” was also the theme of the October “Global Progress Conference” in Madrid, Spain, sponsored by the Center for American Progress, the IDEAS Foundation, and the Heinrich Boell Foundation, an affiliate of the German Green Party. A summary of remarks said that the conference was perceived to be the “starting point for a new global progressive alliance.”

The Center for American Progress is a George Soros-funded entity run by former Clinton official John Podesta, who co-chaired the Obama-Biden Transition Project.

Obama pollster Benenson has a website which says that he “was the lead pollster and a senior strategist for President Barack Obama during the 2008 election, and he continues in that role today.”

In addition to Obama and various Democratic Party candidates, elected officials, and campaign organizations, his clients have included the AFL-CIO, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Brookings Institution, the Soros Foundation, and the Working Families Party, an ACORN front. 

The Benenson Strategy Group has represented several foreign governments and currently represents British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, a prominent advocate of a global tax who is facing re-election in June 2010. Brown’s socialist Labor Party is a member of the PES.

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They say pictures are worth a thousand words:

Howard Dean and PES President Rasmussen

PES at Democratic National Headquarters

PES delegation with Howard Dean

Tom Daschle (connected to Obama) meeting with PES

PES meeting with Brookings Institute Members

Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fl) meeting with PES Rasmussen

PES President Rasmussen with John Sweeney (Past)President of AFL-CIO and connected to the Democratic Socialists of America

And let’s not forget Carol Browner, an Obama Czar and her connections to Socialists International:

Carol Browner International Socialist and Sustainable World Society Member

**Conveniently “scrubbed” from web when connections were made of Carol Browner to Socialist International.**

 

Michigan Forces Business Owners Into Public Sector Unions. Forced Unionism; Trojan Horse Movement Nationwide?

 

December 25, 2009

The Wall Street Journal prints an opinion piece that should put most Americans on alert. It begins in Michigan; who will be next, New York?

Michigan Forces Business Owners Into Public Sector Unions

After hemorrhaging members for decades, labor unions have hit upon a new way to shore up their annual dues revenue.

By PATRICK J. WRIGHT AND MICHAEL D. JAHR

Flint, Mich.

Michelle Berry runs a private day-care service from her home on the outskirts of this city, the birthplace of General Motors. “The Berry Patch,” as she calls the service, features overstuffed purple gorillas, giant cartoon murals, and a playroom covered in Astroturf. Her clients are mostly low-income parents who need child care to keep their jobs in a city that now has a 26% unemployment rate.

Ms. Berry owns her own business—yet the Michigan Department of Human Services claims she is a government employee and union member. The agency thus withholds union dues from the child-care subsidies it sends to her on behalf of her low-income clients. Those dues are funneled to a public-employee union that claims to represent her. The situation is crazy—and it’s happening elsewhere in the country.

A year ago in December, Ms. Berry and more than 40,000 other home-based day care providers statewide were suddenly informed they were members of Child Care Providers Together Michigan—a union created in 2006 by the United Auto Workers and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The union had won a certification election conducted by mail under the auspices of the Michigan Employment Relations Commission. In that election only 6,000 day-care providers voted. The pro-labor vote turned out.

Many of the state’s other 34,000 day-care providers never even realized what was going on. Ms. Berry tells us she was “shocked” to find out she was suddenly in a union. The real dirty work, however, had been done when the state created an “employer” for the union to “organize” against.

Of course, Michigan’s independent day-care providers don’t work for anybody except the parents who were their customers. Nevertheless, because some of these parents qualified for public subsidies, the Child Care Providers “union” claimed the providers were “public employees.”

Michigan’s Department of Human Services then teamed with Flint-based Mott Community College to sign an “interlocal agreement” in 2006 establishing a separate government agency called the Michigan Home Based Child Care Council. This council was directed to recommend good child-care practices—and not coincidentally, to serve as a “public employer.” Although the council had almost no staff, no control over the state subsidies and no supervision of the providers’ daily activities, it became the shell corporation against which the union could organize.

Thus the state created an ersatz employer and an ersatz “bargaining unit” against which what was essentially an ersatz union could organize.

Today the Department of Human Services siphons about $3.7 million in annual dues to the union—from the child-care subsidies. The money should be going to home-based day-care providers—themselves not on the high end of the income scale. Ms. Berry now sees money once paid to her go to a union that does little for her. She says she is “self employed and wants nothing to do with the union.”

The union claims it is working for Ms. Berry and others like her by pressing the legislature to increase child-care payments. But lobbying is not an activity that requires compulsory unionism.

Sherry Loar, who owns a day-care center in Petoskey, Mich., is the lead client in a lawsuit brought against the Department of Human Services in state court by the legal arm of the Michigan-based Mackinac Center, a free-market think tank for whom we work. (Ms. Berry is petitioning to join the suit.) The case is based on the grounds that state law presumes that no one is subject to public-sector bargaining unless state legislation has made them so, and in this case, there is no legislation—only the flimsy interlocal agreement. “I’m not opposed to unions,” Ms. Loar says, “everything has a place. But when we enter my door, this is my home.”

The larger question, not part of this lawsuit, is whether this sort of unionization violates the U.S. Constitution. The freedom of association clause prevents compulsory unionism except, courts have determined, when it is necessary for “labor peace.” But in this case, whom would the day-care providers riot against? The parents?

The federal question may be raised soon, as other states have pursued similar unionization schemes over the past decade, primarily at the behest of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the Service Employees International Union, better known as the SEIU. Fourteen states have now enabled home-based day-care providers to be organized into public-employee unions, affecting about 233,000 people. And nine have done so with home health-care providers. The idea to unionize in this way was hatched in California, though ironically Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed legislation to unionize child-care providers.

It’s telling that in several states that have gone down this road, state and federal subsidies are the source of the union dues. In Michigan, the scheme is essentially throwing a cash lifeline to unions like the UAW, which are hemorrhaging members.

There’s another, ironic twist to the story in the Great Lakes state. Last month the Michigan Economic Development Corporation granted a for-profit SEIU subsidiary, the SEIU Member Action Service Center, a $2 million refundable tax credit to locate a new business facility in the state that will provide administrative services for the union and other local labor organizations. The subsidy strikes us as inappropriate because it categorized the SEIU subsidiary as a business and occurred just before the 5,000 member SEIU local 517M granted the state wage concessions. Shamelessly, the SEIU requested the credit because Michigan has high labor costs.

Some states are redefining straightforward terms—a union as a business, an employer as an employee—primarily to aid organized labor. This highlights the need to re-examine public-sector collective bargaining. Shielded from market pressures, public employee unions have driven up taxpayer costs for decades. Now labor leaders are shanghaiing entrepreneurs such as Ms. Berry and Ms. Loar into government unions because their clients receive government aid. Who will be next? Grocers? Landlords? Doctors?

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End note:

When unions become too big, i.e. SEIU, AFL-CIO, UAW et.al, the power turns into a euphemism of control through money.  It no longer is a union for the workers, but a union siphoning funds for the union bosses, the stewards, etc.

Are the unions one “arm” of the octopus that is surrounding and eventually squeezing our government into something we no longer recognize?

“Arms of the octopus”: Thoughts to ponder.

Obama Czars

The Executive Branch infiltrating the Legislative Branch. The three major players in the “Conference Healthcare Bill” are Pelosi, Reid and OBAMA.

Treasury Department giving blank check to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to overtake the housing market.

Unions.  Anna Burger and Andy Stern are “in love” with China and its major union.

Executive Branch overtaking the Auto Industry (GM – “Government Motors”)

Federal Jobs is only job sector “exploding”. What about the blue collar and white collar workers?

National Civilian Security Force.

Robert Creamer (Rep. Jan Shakowsky’s husband), David Axelrod, John Podesta and the Center for American Progress.

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***Rep. Jan Shakowsky D-Il. received the Deb’s Award from the Democratic Socialists of America for her work within the DSA.

 

Capital Limits Quietly Removed for Fannie, Freddie: Government Takeover of Major Sectors Continues

 

December 28, 2009

Jared Law brings another “YOU CANNOT POSSIBLY BE SERIOUS!!!” Moment to light.

Dec. 28, 2009, 4:25 p.m. EST
U.S. may prop up housing further via Fannie, Freddie
Unlimited support may presage more aggressive action in mortgage market

 
By Alistair Barr, MarketWatch

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The government’s decision to provide unlimited support to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac probably presages more aggressive action to prop up the U.S. housing market.

The government may put a mortgage-modification effort, called the Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, into overdrive in coming years, pushing for reductions in the principal outstanding on home loans overseen by Fannie (NYSE:FNM) and Freddie (NYSE:FRE) , Bose George, an analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, wrote in a note to investors Monday.

The U.S. Treasury Department said on Christmas Eve that it lifted $200 billion caps on the amount of taxpayer money that can be pumped into the ailing mortgage giants over the next three years.

Neither institution is near its $200 billion limit — Treasury has put $60 billion into Fannie and $51 billion into Freddie since it seized the failing companies in September 2008.

However, Treasury said the promise of unlimited government money “should leave no uncertainty about the Treasury’s commitment to support these firms as they continue to play a vital role in the housing market during this current crisis.”

Fannie shares jumped 21% to close at $1.27 on Monday, while Freddie shares soared 27% to $1.60.

KBW’s George initially found the extra support “perplexing,” he said, because Fannie and Freddie are unlikely to need more than $200 billion of government money each.

During the depths of the recession in March 2009, the Government Accountability Office estimated that the bailouts of the two companies would cost taxpayers $389 billion, the analyst noted. Since then, house prices have stabilized and have begun to creep up in some areas.

Instead, unlimited taxpayer support will give the government “more flexibility in potentially taking more aggressive action to support the housing market,” George wrote.

It appears that the Commisars/Czars in this administration are planning for a total government against private ownership of real estate here in America. This is VERY DISTURBING!

 

Blank check sends Fannie, Freddie soaring
By Chris Isidore, senior writerDecember 28, 2009: 4:30 PM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Shares of mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac soared Monday after the Treasury Department announced what essentially amounts to a blank check for their bailouts.

Treasury lifted a $200 billion limit on the amount it was ready to pump into each of the two mortgage firms after the markets closed Thursday. Fannie Mae (FNM, Fortune 500) shares leapt 21% Monday to $1.27, while shares of Freddie Mac (FRE, Fortune 500) jumped 27% to $1.60.

While the support from Treasury would appear to be a vote of confidence for the firms, the companies’ leaders apparently have no interest in owning the stocks themselves…

It’s Not Socialism (or “Progressivism”). It’s Communism.

 

December 27, 2009

Alan Caruba writes a piece that educates those Americans that have had their heads in the sand.

Pay attention and read with due diligence; your future is now.

It’s Not Socialism. It’s Communism.

Virtually the entire agenda of American environmental organizations has been focused on an attack on private property rights and denying Americans access to their vast reserves of energy.

If you felt a frisson of fear on news that the Senate had passed Obamacare the day before Christmas, then you now know what it was and is like to live in a dictatorship. The voice of the People was ignored in a demonstration of raw political power.

There was a time when Americans took Communism seriously. It challenged us in the form of the Soviet Union and we witnessed its takeover of China.

In Europe, uprisings against Soviet rule were crushed in East Germany in 1953, Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, and Poland in the 1980s gave proof that only oppression can sustain this failed economic and political system. President Reagan gave voice to it when he called the Soviet Union an “evil empire.”

The McCarthy hearings in the 1950s proved a setback for efforts to learn how thoroughly infiltrated the U.S. government had become by Communists, not because Sen. Joseph McCarthy was wrong, but because he proved a poor spokesperson for the cause. He was easily criticized for his bombast, but the declassification of the Venona papers, secret communications between Soviet spymasters and their agents, revealed he may well have underestimated the threat.

Later, the Russian Federation declassified former Soviet spy agency records that further confirmed that many Americans, dedicated Communists, were working to undermine our government.

The price America paid in part for the Great Depression of the 1930s was the undermining of faith in the Capitalist system among many Americans.

Unions arose, not just in response to worker grievances, but also because their leaders were frequently sympathetic to Communism. The FDR and subsequent administrations introduced Social Security and Medicare, tapping into the fears of those who had experienced the Depression with programs that vastly expanded the federal government, characterizing them as the ultimate “safety net.” Then Congress plundered the trusts that were supposed to fund both programs. Both programs are insolvent.

A recent study by Paul Hollander, a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, was published by Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty & Prosperity. It is titled, “Reflections on Communism: Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall.”

The celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall earlier this year was attended by many world leaders with the notable exception of President Barack Obama. For a man who has visited more foreign nations in his first year in office than any previous President, the decision to avoid this significant anniversary was taken as one more signal of his true political and economic agenda.

We know that he was greatly influenced by Marxists or people who viewed Communism sympathetically, not the least of which were his grandparents who introduced him to a mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Communist Party USA.

Obama wrote that he was drawn to Marxists among his teachers in college. He began his political career in the home of former Weatherman Bill Ayers. These days he is praised by Communists in Cuba and Venezuela. He sided with a Leftist former president of Honduras who tried to illegally alter its constitution. The Hondurans had the courage to cast him out.

The specter of Communist subversion of the U.S. Constitution is staring us in the eye with the so-called healthcare “reform” of Medicare; it includes all manner of provisions that are unconstitutional and would expand federal government control over one-sixth of the nation’s economy. The bribery and thuggish pressures and threats against Democrat Senators and Representatives to pass the bill reveal a political leadership more devoted to ideology than the will of the People.

Specifically, President Obama’s drive for a single payer system is the direct result of the influence of Dr. Quentin Young, a retired physician with a long history of commitment to Communism. In 1995, Dr. Quentin was among those who met in the Hyde Park home of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn to launch Obama’s political career.

As Prof. Hollander points out in his study, “Not only individual intellectuals but entire professional associations have expressed favorable attitudes toward communist systems” citing the Latin American Studies Association that has “repeatedly taken positions supportive of Castro’s Cuba and Sandinista Nicaragua.” In 1990, the Organization of American Historians defeated a motion that expressed regret that the organization “never protested the forced betrayal of the historian’s responsibility to truth imposed upon Soviet and East European historians by their political leaders.”

The recent United Nations’ Climate Change Conference refused to take notice of the revelations that the data on which the “global warming” theory is based was falsified by a handful of meteorologists and climatologists in an effort to impose a global governing system. The interim first Secretary General of the UN was Alger Hiss, an American and secret Soviet agent

It did not escape notice that Venezuela’s communist dictator, Hugo Chavez, received a rousing ovation when he spoke at the conference or that President Obama continues to repeat the lies surrounding the discredited “global warming” fraud.

Virtually the entire agenda of American environmental organizations has been focused on an attack on private property rights and denying Americans access to their vast reserves of energy in the form of coal, oil, and natural gas, thus undermining U.S. growth and prosperity.

Unlike Prof. Hollander who escaped Hungary following the crushing of the 1956 revolution by Soviet forces, “Western intellectuals who remain attracted to communist ideals never had the disillusioning experience of living in an actual communist or socialist society.”

Among them we must number much of the nation’s media that has been a party to political and environmental deceptions, and the Hollywood community that has produced many films to influence public opinion about the earlier efforts to address Communist activities and later Green issues with a very Red agenda.

The Medicare “reform” expands “socialism” in America, but it is an example of naked Communism at work. It is a bill put together behind closed doors and so extensive its control of the lives of Americans literally determines who lives and who dies. It will wreck the best healthcare system in the world albeit one that has its flaws.

It is authoritarianism at work, the kind we associate with regimes in Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, and everywhere else Communism has been imposed on captive nations.

Healthcare “reform” is not about uninsured Americans. It is not “socialism.” It is Communism, effectively putting the entire nation’s healthcare system under state control. It must be defeated just as past generations of Americans knew the threat of Communism and devoted the nation’s treasure and even their lives to defeat it.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/18338

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End notes about this article: **ALL CREDITS for the above article goes to the author and Canada Free Press.**

(or Progressivism) added to title due to fact the far left liberals utilize that word.

“Progress”…..”Looking forward”…..”Historic” other key words.

Emboldened and italicized words mine for focal points.

For those of you seeking more information about the Communist/Socialist connections to Obama, these sites are a wealth of information.

http://www.theobamafile.com

AND

http://www.newzeal.blogspot.com  (Right side bar)

 

To look up specific connections:

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org

and

http://www.muckety.com

 

America: You have been given the information……educate yourselves.

 

 

 

Not One (Red) Nickel for California

 

December 27, 2009

Ralph Alter writes an opinion piece about the default of a failing budget in California. The word (Red) was added to the title and in the end notes you will see why.

There isn’t a single compelling reason to provide the girly-man of American gubernatorial fiscal responsibility, Arnold Schwarzenegger, with a nickel from our federal coffers. His failing California remains the poster-child for liberal fiscal insanity and it’s time for the free-range chickens to come home to roost.

Investor’s Business Daily reports that:

“Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has an idea: He wants President Obama to give him $8 billion – or else, he says, he’ll kill or slash most of the state’s welfare programs, cut pay for 200,000 state workers and end two tax breaks for big corporations.”

 

It’s clearly time to start killing and slashing. For decades California has enabled its spendthrift legislators, feather-bedding public-sector employee unions and welfare recipients (comprised of both native-born and illegal immigrants) to the tune of a $21 billion annual deficit with no sign of sufficient tax revenue in sight. Meanwhile the confiscatory tax policies and unfriendly business environment of the Granola State continue to hemorrhage both businesses and jobs to more enlightened states.

According to the IBD, California is home to more than 1/3 of the nation’s welfare recipients. Their abysmally underperforming schools are home to the 2nd highest paid teachers in America. Despite their utter ineptitude, the state legislators are:

“the country’s highest-paid state legislators, pulling down nearly $100,000, with $30,000 in tax-free money for their “expenses” and a state-provided car for their use.”

 

In addition, California is rated 48th out of the 50 states in terms of tax-competitiveness with over $493 billion worth of new tax regulations for businesses since the year 2000. Where is the light at the end of this tunnel?

Why should taxpayers from states like my home state of Indiana chip in to support Californians in the manner to which they have become accustomed? Governor Mitch Daniels has striven to create a climate of encouragement for both new and established businesses here while consistently exercising fiscal restraint. Why should we contribute to ensure expensive gold-plated retirement packages for the “the public employee unions that have systematically looted the public” coffers of California and now come looking for more sensible Americans to fund their fiscal insanity

Let ‘em hit the wall and file bankruptcy. It’s time for the insolvent public sector in California to start turning away welfare recipients, closing government offices, and defaulting on public employee union benefits including pensions until they can be renegotiated in the light of fiscal responsibility to all Californians, not just the special pleaders.

End notes:

1.  Obama will bail out California; because the liberals (Progressives) need the votes in 2010 and 2012.

2.  California has Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Lee, Maxine Waters, Lynn Woolsey, Diane Watson, Xavier Becerra, Judy Chu, Sam Farr, Bob Filner, Michael Honda, George Miller, Laura Richardson,Lucille Roybal-Allard,  Linda Sánchez, Pete Stark, and Henry Waxman as Representatives in the Congressional Progressive Caucus.  (Progressives = Socialists/Communists). List of ALL Progressive Representatives/Senators can be found HERE.

3. In order “to bring new life to the progressive voice in U.S. politics,” the Progressive Caucus has worked closely with Progressive Challenge, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies. Progressive Challenge is a coalition through which the activities and talking points of leftist groups are synchronized and harmonized with one another, producing coordinated, mutually-reinforcing propaganda from some 200 seemingly-unconnected groups.

In 2005 the Progressive Caucus crafted its “Progressive Promise” document, which advocates socialized medicine; radical environmentalism; the redistribution of wealth; higher taxes; the elimination of numerous provisions of the Patriot Act; dramatic reductions in the government’s intelligence-gathering capabilities; debt relief for poor countries; and the quick withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. These measures, says the Progressive Caucus, would help “re-build U.S. alliances around the world, restore international respect for American power and influence, and reaffirm our nation’s constructive engagement in the United Nations and other multilateral organizations.”

Until 1999 the Progressive Caucus worked in open partnership with Democratic Socialists of America. After the press reported on this link, the connections suddenly vanished from both organizations’ websites.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6497

4.  When Schwarzenegger tried to rescind the state dollars supplementing the SEIU worker pay, Andy Stern went whining to Obama and you know what the end result was.  The Unions in California are part of the “bleeding” process of California’s budget. 

5.  Illegal immigration is rampant in California; open borders essentially and “sanctuary” cities, i.e. San Franscisco.  The illegals drain the welfare system, utilizing Emergency Rooms as indigents and demand education of their children in American schools.

6.  Cutting off water to growers in the valley to “save” a feeder fish.

7.  The Communist Party’s response?  MORE TAXES.  From the Communist Party website People’s World: 

Though Schwarzenegger and legislative Republicans – most of whom have signed a “no new taxes” pledge – are adamantly opposed to increasing revenues through new taxes, the California Tax Reform Association takes a different view. It lists 10 policies it calls “low hanging fruit in the tax system,” that it says would raise $20 billion.

One is an oil severance tax that could bring $1.2 billion; California is the only oil-producing state that doesn’t have such a tax. Another is reinstating top-income tax brackets that were in effect under previous Republican governors, bringing in $4 billion that could grow to $6 billion. Also: closing “secret corporate tax loopholes,” ending corporate property tax loopholes, broadening the sales tax base to include entertainment-related items and digital products, increasing tobacco and alcohol taxes, and improving tax collections.

Other efforts seek to change the state’s requirement of a two-thirds majority to raise taxes or pass budgets. University of California professor George Lakoff, renowned for his study of the use of language in politics, is spearheading an effort to gain signatures for a constitutional amendment stating that budgets and taxes would be decided by majority vote. Democrats in the legislature have authored bills to end the supermajority requirement. Others seek to undo the limits on corporate real estate taxes imposed by Prop. 13, passed in 1978, while keeping protections for home owners.

Let California figure it out; file bankruptcy and restart their own economy once again.

WHY should the taxpayers in 49 other states foot the bill in taxes to pay for California’s bailout? 

Most taxpayers are already pissed about paying for Sen.Ben Nelson’s Nebraskan deal for Medicaid for his yes vote on the healthcare bill.

America are you getting the picture yet?

First California; then it will be New York, Michigan, etc.

Economic collapse Cloward-Piven style:

The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inadequacy of the welfare state. Cloward-Piven’s early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. “Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules,” Alinsky wrote in his 1972 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judaeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system’s failure to “live up” to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist “rule book” with a socialist one.

The authors noted that the number of Americans subsisting on welfare — about 8 million, at the time — probably represented less than half the number who were technically eligible for full benefits. They proposed a “massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls.”  Cloward and Piven calculated that persuading even a fraction of potential welfare recipients to demand their entitlements would bankrupt the system. The result, they predicted, would be “a profound financial and political crisis” that would unleash “powerful forces … for major economic reform at the national level.”

Their article called for “cadres of aggressive organizers” to use “demonstrations to create a climate of militancy.” Intimidated by threats of black violence, politicians would appeal to the federal government for help. Carefully orchestrated media campaigns, carried out by friendly, leftwing journalists, would float the idea of “a federal program of income redistribution,” in the form of a guaranteed living income for all — working and non-working people alike. Local officials would clutch at this idea like drowning men to a lifeline. They would apply pressure on Washington to implement it. With every major city erupting into chaos, Washington would have to act.

This was an example of what are commonly called Trojan Horse movements — mass movements whose outward purpose seems to be providing material help to the downtrodden, but whose real objective is to draft poor people into service as revolutionary foot soldiers; to mobilize poor people en masse to overwhelm government agencies with a flood of demands beyond the capacity of those agencies to meet. The flood of demands was calculated to break the budget, jam the bureaucratic gears into gridlock, and bring the system crashing down. Fear, turmoil, violence and economic collapse would accompany such a breakdown — providing perfect conditions for fostering radical change.

Read about the entire Cloward-Piven strategy here: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6967