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		<description><![CDATA[by Mike Adams, NaturalNews The news you are about to read puts everything else in the category of “insignificant” by comparison. Concerned about the 2012 U.S. presidential election? Worried about GMOs? Fluoride? Vaccines? Secret prisons?None of that even mattersif we don’t solve the problem of Fukushima reactor No. 4, which is on the verge of [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://freewestradio.com/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/db395_Fukushima-Japan-Nuclear-Radiation-Disaster.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-22731" src="http://freewestradio.com/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/db395_Fukushima-Japan-Nuclear-Radiation-Disaster.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="130" /></a>The news you are about to read puts everything else in the category of “insignificant” by comparison. Concerned about the 2012 U.S. presidential election? Worried about GMOs? Fluoride? Vaccines? Secret prisons?<strong>None of that even matters</strong>if we don’t solve the problem of Fukushima reactor No. 4, which is on the verge of a catastrophic failure that could unleash enough radiation to<strong>end human civilization</strong>on our planet. (See the numbers below.)</p>
<p>The resulting releasing of radiation would turn North America into a “dead zone” for humans… mutated (and failed) crops, radioactive groundwater, skyrocketing infant mortality, an explosion in cancer and infertility… this is what could be unleashed at any moment from an earthquake in Japan. Such an event could result in the release of<strong>85 times the Cesium-137 released by the Chernobyl catastrophe</strong>, say experts (see below). And the Chernobyl catastrophe made its surrounding regions<strong>uninhabitable by humans for centuries</strong>.</p>
<p>Yet, astonishingly, the usual suspects of deception are saying absolutely nothing about this problem. The mainstream media (the dying dinosaur media, actually) pretends there’s no problem with Fukushima. President Obama says nothing about it. Federal regulators, including the NRC, are all but silent. It’s as if they think their silence on the issue somehow makes it go away.</p>
<p>Perhaps these professional liars in the media and government have become so used to idea that they can simply spin their own reality (and get the public suckers to believe almost anything) that they now believe they can ignore the laws of physics. That’s why they have refused to cover the<strong>low-level radiation plume</strong>that continues to be emitted from Fukushima.</p>
<p><big>“It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of Japan and the whole world depends on No.4 reactor.” – Mitsuhei Murata, Former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland and Senegal, Executive Director, the Japan Society for Global System and Ethics</big></p>
<p>Mr. Murata’s stunning statement should be front-page news everywhere around the world. Why? Because<em>he’s right</em>. If reactor No. 4 suffers even a minor earthquake, it could set off a chain reaction of events that quickly lead to<strong>North America becoming uninhabitable by humans</strong>for centuries to come. Imagine California, Oregon and Washington states being inundated with radiation — up to<strong>85 times the radiation release from Chernobyl</strong>. We’re talking about the end of human life on the scale of continents.</p>
<p>Here’s how this could happen, according to Mr. Robert Alvarez, former Senior Policy Adviser to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Security and the Environment at the U.S. Department of Energy:</p>
<p><em>“The No. 4 pool is about 100 feet above ground, is structurally damaged and is exposed to the open elements. If an earthquake or other event were to cause this pool to drain this could result in a catastrophic radiological fire involving nearly 10 times the amount of Cs-137 released by the Chernobyl accident. The infrastructure to safely remove this material was destroyed as it was at the other three reactors. Spent reactor fuel cannot be simply lifted into the air by a crane as if it were routine cargo. In order to prevent severe radiation exposures, fires and possible explosions, it must be transferred at all times in water and heavily shielded structures into dry casks. As this has never been done before, the removal of the spent fuel from the pools at the damaged Fukushima-Dai-Ichi reactors will require a major and time-consuming re-construction effort and will be charting in unknown waters.”</em>(<a href="http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/nuclear-expert-fukushima-spent-fuel-has-85-times-more-cesium-released-chernobyl-%E2%80%94-%E2%80%9Cit-woul" target="_blank">http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/nuclear-expert-fukushima-spent-…</a>)</p>
<p>Note: He says “10 times” the Cesium-137 of Chernobyl. Others say up to 85 times. Nobody is 100% certain of what would actually occur because this has never happened before. We are in<em>uncharted territory</em>as a civilization, facing a unique and imminent threat to our continued survival. And both governments and the corporations that assured us nuclear power was safe are playing their “cover my ass” games while the world waits in the crosshairs of a nuclear apocalypse.</p>
<p>To better understand the severity of this situation, read these facts about Fukushima reactor No. 4 which I have assembled from available news sources:</p>
<p>• Reactor #4 contains 1,535 spent fuel rods which remain highly radioactive.</p>
<p>• These fuel rods currently hold the potential to emit<strong>37 million curies</strong>of radiation.</p>
<p>• Those fuel rods are stored in a concrete pool located 100 feet above the ground, inside the structurally compromised reactor building, effectively making the pool open to the air.</p>
<p>• The pool holding these fuel rods is “structurally damaged.”</p>
<p>• “If an earthquake or other event were to cause this pool to drain this could result in a catastrophic radiological fire involving nearly 10 times the amount of Cs-137 released by the Chernobyl accident.” – Mr. Robert Alvarez, former Senior Policy Adviser to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Security and the Environment at the U.S. Department of Energy.</p>
<p>• “The infrastructure to safely remove this material was destroyed as it was at the other three reactors.” – Mr. Alvarez.</p>
<p>• Just 50 meters from reactor No. 4, a much larger pool of spent fuel rods contains 6,375 fuel rods, all of which remain highly radioactive.</p>
<p>• All these fuel rods are, astonishingly, exposed to the open air. They are not held inside any containment vessel.</p>
<p>• The total number of spent fuel rods across all six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi site is 11,421.</p>
<p>• If reactor No. 4 suffers a structural failure, the release of radiation from the 1,535 spent fuel rods would make it virtually impossible for work to continue on the site, potentially resulting in an inability to halt a massive radiation release from all the other rods.</p>
<p>• In all, the 11,421 fuel rods held at the Fukushima Daiichi facility contain roughly<strong>336 million curies</strong>of “long-lived radioactivity.” Roughly 134 million curies of that is<strong>Cesium-137</strong>.</p>
<p>• “Reactors that have been operating for decades, such as those at the Fukushima-Dai-Ichi site have generated some of the largest concentrations of radioactivity on the planet.” – Mr. Robert Alvarez, U.S. Dept. of Energy</p>
<p>• This amount of Cesium-137 radioactivity held in the full collection of fuel rods at Fukushima is<strong>85 times the amount released at Chernobyl</strong>.</p>
<p>• The release of this amount of Cesium-137 would “destroy the world environment and our civilization. This is an issue of human survival.” (<a href="http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html" target="_blank">http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html</a>)</p>
<p>• The mainstream media operates in a<strong>total blackout</strong>of this news, refusing to even acknowledge the existence of this immediate threat to human civilization.</p>
<p>• The mainstream media is, in large part, owned by General Electric, the very company that designed the Fukushima reactors in the first place. It is clear that GE is diligently running a<strong>total media blackout</strong>on this news in order to cover its own ass and prevent people from asking questions about the faulty engineering and nuclear facility site selection that led to this catastrophe.</p>
<p>“The executive branch and multiple federal agencies, agencies tasked with keeping the American public safe, did their best to hide and to cover-up information about a deadly radioactive plume and ensuing fallout that was headed for the West Coast of the United States from Japan,” says Tony Muga. (<a href="http://theintelhub.com/2012/03/01/plume-gate-shocker-media-silence-raises-troubling-questions/" target="_blank">http://theintelhub.com/2012/03/01/plume-gate-shocker-media-silence-ra…</a>)</p>
<p>He goes on to state “The evidence obtained in the FOIA request indicates that right from the start, the NRC had a clear idea of the significance of the disaster that was unfolding, but concealed the truth from the American public. The results of the plume and fallout can be measured in the rise of infant mortality rates: cells of unborn and newborn children are dividing at a much higher rate than those of a mature adult, thus the amount of damage is greatly increased and hence more detectable. Conservative estimates place the number of stillborn following the Fukushima accident at over 18,000.”</p>
<p>See the FOIA documents here:<br /><a href="http://www.houseoffoust.com/NRC/ML11269A172.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.houseoffoust.com/NRC/ML11269A172.pdf</a></p>
<p>and here:<br /><a href="http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1205/ML12052A106.pdf" target="_blank">http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1205/ML12052A106.pdf</a></p>
<p>The conspiracy cover-up of the radioactive plumes still being emitted from Fukushima is now being called “Plume-Gate.” This issue needs to be front and center on all our radar screens. There may quite literally be nothing more important for the survival of the human race than dealing with this runaway issue of Fukushima radiation in the immediate term, and the larger issue of the scientific fraud of nuclear power “safety” thereafter.</p>
<p>As Muga explains, “It is this author’s opinion that any media source not shouting about Plume-Gate as loud as they can are likely controlled by the powers-that-be.” He’s got a point. This<em>should</em>be our No. 1 issue, and NaturalNews is re-shifting priorities right now to help raise the alarm on the impeding Fukushima disaster for the obvious reason that<strong>everything else pales in comparison</strong>to the importance of dealing with this.</p>
<p>Although I hate to call for the UN to do anything at all, as it is a criminal globalist organization engaged in widespread sex slave trafficking, child abuse and mass murder, the UN definitely has some pull with governments around the world. The petition linked below calls for the UN to take immediate, decisive action to deal with Fukushima reactor No. 4 before it’s too late and we all get “Fuk’ed” beyond repair.</p>
<p><a href="http://fukushima.greenaction-japan.org/2012/05/01/an-urgent-request-on-un-intervention-to-stabilize-the-fukushima-unit-4-spent-nuclear-fuel/" target="_blank">http://fukushima.greenaction-japan.org/2012/05/01/an-urgent-request-o…</a></p>
<p>This petition calls for two actions:</p>
<p>1. The United Nations should organize a Nuclear Security Summit to take up the crucial problem of the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 spent nuclear fuel pool.</p>
<p>2. The United Nations should establish an independent assessment team on Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 and coordinate international assistance in order to stabilize the unit’s spent nuclear fuel and prevent radiological consequences with potentially catastrophic consequences.</p>
<p>Here at NaturalNews, although we hold the UN in contempt for its globalist actions and crimes against humanity, we nevertheless support this particular petition and the urgent effort for the UN to actually do something positive for a change. In fact, if the UN ignores this issue, that itself would be the greatest crime of all against humanity, for failure to solve this reactor No. 4 situation could mean the end of human civilization as we know it.</p>
<p>NaturalNews will continue to cover this issue, especially focusing on reactor No. 4. We are reaching out to Higgins and Gunderson to conduct more interviews on this subject. Watch for more coverage here at NaturalNews.com.</p>
<p><strong>Sources include:</strong><br />
Japanese letter:<br /><a href="http://akiomatsumura.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Letter-to-Prime-Minister-Noda-by-Amb-Murata.pdf" target="_blank">http://akiomatsumura.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Letter-to-Prime-M…</a></p>
<p>Fukushima Update<br /><a href="http://fukushima.greenaction-japan.org/" target="_blank">http://fukushima.greenaction-japan.org/</a></p>
<p>Arnie Gunderson – one of the most important scientific voices of truth and reason on this issue<br /><a href="http://www.fairewinds.com/" target="_blank">http://www.fairewinds.com/</a></p>
<p>Alexander Higgins:<br /><a href="http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/03/01/plumegate-media-silent-feds-fukushima-coverup-88832/" target="_blank">http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/03/01/plumegate-media-silent-fe…</a></p>
<p>Tony Muga, The Intel Hub:<br /><a href="http://theintelhub.com/2012/03/01/plume-gate-shocker-media-silence-raises-troubling-questions/" target="_blank">http://theintelhub.com/2012/03/01/plume-gate-shocker-media-silence-ra…</a></p>
<p>Learn more:<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/035789_Fukushima_Cesium-137_Plume-Gate.html#ixzz1uh6GLTur">http://www.naturalnews.com/035789_Fukushima_Cesium-137_Plume-Gate.html#ixzz1uh6GLTur</a></p>
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		<title>Resist by Boycotting Your Bank!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take Your Money Out of the Bank Now! People don’t understand how they are fleeced through interest on fictional debt. by Anthony Migchels, HenryMakow The current austerity program is an assault by the Money Power. What is worse: even without the credit crunch, we are paying trillions per year in interest for absolutely nothing. The solution [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span><strong>Take Your Money Out of the Bank Now!</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span>People don’t understand how they are fleeced through interest on fictional debt.</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.henrymakow.com/take_your_money_out_of_the_ban.html" target="_blank">by Anthony Migchels, HenryMakow</a></p>
<p><span><strong><a href="http://militantlibertarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/banks.jpeg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-22728" src="http://freewestradio.com/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/db395_banks-99x150.jpg" alt="" width="99" height="150" /></a>The current austerity <strong>program is an assault by the Money Power.</p>
<p></strong>What is worse: even without the credit crunch, we are paying trillions per year in interest for absolutely nothing.</p>
<p>The solution is simple: quit their banks.</p>
<p></strong><br />
The Money Power’s goals are obvious. It is not just the massive multi trillion wealth transfer that is under way. It is about bringing the West down a few notches. The US seems strong with a nominal $30,000 per capita GDP, but when the dollar devalues against the Brazilian Real and the Chinese Yuan, things will quickly look different. It will also be the end cheap raw materials.</p>
<p>The reason this crisis exists is because the banks, politicians, the media and economists are colluding in fooling the many into believing we need banks for our money supply. Most of them probably even believe this is true themselves.</p>
<p></span></p>
<p><span>They say we need the banks, because otherwise the real economy would have no money to trade with.</span></p>
<p><span>All this is complete and utter rubbish, of course. If banks can create credit, then anybody can. That’s just common sense.</span></p>
<p>Just imagine: we are led to believe that we need to cough up trillions just to have a means of exchange that is completely paper/computer based. I.e., almost free of cost.</p>
<p><span>Banking is part of the Babylon Mystery and bankers believe we are still enthralled with their ‘fractional reserve banking’ sleight of hand.<br /></span></p>
<p><span>And they are right. Although people are waking up, they still don’t get it.</span></p>
<p><span> A good example of this is the ‘take your money out of Bank of America’ of last October. Bank of America decides to rake in an extra $60 per year with a silly fee. This upsets people.</span></p>
<p><span>While they are paying $300k interest over 30 years on their $200k mortgage. Which the bank created out of nothing the moment they borrowed it.</span></p>
<p><span>Meanwhile, <a href="http://realcurrencies.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/on-interest/" target="_blank">45% of our disposable income is lost</a> to pay for capital included in the prices we pay for our daily needs.</span></p>
<p><span>In other words: Penny wise, pound foolish.</span></p>
<p><span><br />
People still don’t understand how they are fleeced through interest on fictional debt.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span><strong>FACING REALITY</strong><br /></span></p>
<p><span><br />
Of course, it was good to see people finally showing some teeth.</span></p>
<p><span>Boycotting the banks is the blindingly obvious approach. If somebody is enslaving you with interest and fractional reserve banking while destroying the economy by not lending why would you patronize his business?</span></p>
<p><span><strong>To say this is irresponsible as it will worsen the crunch is ridiculous: propping up a system that only exists to enslave us is irresponsible, not disconnecting from it.</strong></span></p>
<p><span>But only few even within the Free Media are willing to accept this simple conclusion.</span></p>
<p><span>The fact of the matter is: many are still enthralled with the ‘magnificent edifice of international finance’, as Rothschild mouthpiece the Economist once called it.</span></p>
<p><span>It is unfortunate that there is still widespread misunderstanding about both money and our real problem with it.</span></p>
<p>People do not yet understand how pervasive the enslavement through interest really is.</p>
<p><span>That’s why they fall for the notion that Gold will solve our problems. But what does it matter whether we pay all this interest for Gold or for paper based credit? The Money Power owns both and all the interest will end up in the same place.</span></p>
<p><span>The mind control of the rich, the social conditioning to accept the current order and its despicable ‘morality’, to defend it at the cost of oneself and one’s loved ones is very profound and pervasive in our beliefs. They are not easily uprooted, not even by the ‘Internet Reformation’.</span></p>
<p><span>In the mean time we are ignoring the real solution: interest free money. Either debt free, in the form of Social Credit, which would work out like a ‘<a href="http://libertyrevival.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/milton-friedman-supported-the-citizen-dividend/" target="_blank">Citizens Dividend</a>‘.<br />
Or interest free credit, through Mutual Credit.</span></p>
<p><span>These solutions are real and we can implement them today.</span></p>
<p><span>We would no longer pay interest on a mortgage, which would also mean much lower rent.</span></p>
<p><span>We would pay 45% less for what we need, because there would be no  capital cost included in prices.  World Government would be dead and Big Business would face the competition of well funded small business.</span></p>
<p><span>Washington and Brussels are owned by the Money Power in the City of London. But </span><span>the main reason we are not doing this is the people don’t understand the problem and therefore the solution.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span><strong>FIGHT BACK!</strong><br /></span></p>
<p><span><br />
We don’t need to wait for reform on a national level. <a title="The Swiss WIR, or: How to Defeat the Money Power" href="http://realcurrencies.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/the-swiss-wir-or-how-to-defeat-the-money-power/" target="_blank">We can create our own currencies</a>. High powered currencies, not just the simple barter units<a href="http://www.google.nl/url?sa=trct=jq=esrc=sfrm=1source=webcd=1ved=0CGEQtwIwAAurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld-europe-12223068ei=dK6jT6fNK4X98QPOp8SkCQusg=AFQjCNEiLzqXmEPOvVLheJziiVLWPkHD-Q" target="_blank"> that are now starting to float everywhere in the world</a>. We can create extremely effective, interest free credit based units, convertible to dollar or euro providing us with a printing press with which we can buy back the world interest free.</span></p>
<p><span>But these will take time to build up. Meanwhile, the obvious thing to do is pull our money out of the banks.</span></p>
<p>We should not have one dime in that system. Every dollar we put in the banking system gives them a dollar income per year. Remember that. The system, through fractional reserve banking, multiplies your dollar by ten and takes interest over each of them.</p>
<p><span>Real interest rates (including credit cards) are probably close to 10% and that means they make a dollar per year over every dollar you have in your account.</span></p>
<p><span>And you can maintain an account for monthly payments, just keep its balance at almost zero. Pay your bills and take out the rest.</span></p>
<p><span>Force the FED and ECB to print ever more for bailouts.</span></p>
<p><span>Pay cash only. Don’t support their cashless society. Liquidate all your paper assets, both to blow up the system and to minimize your own exposure to the implosion.</span></p>
<p><span>Let them squirm and lie ever more transparently with every new bailout that they need to force upon us. Let them show their hand. We’re not going to ‘repay’ odious debt.</span></p>
<p><span>We’re not afraid. We don’t need them.</span></p>
<p><span>Let them eat cake.</span></p>
<p><span>This article on <a href="http://realcurrencies.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/take-your-money-out-of-the-bank-now/">Anthony’s website</a></span></p>
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		<title>Pfizer and Merck under investigation for colluding with Obama Administration on health care overhaul</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ethan A. Huff, NaturalNews Most Americans have no idea what truly went on behind closed doors during the crafting and illegitimate passing of Obamacare, also known as thePatient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But a congressional investigation currently underway is seeking to unearth the dirty details, including how drug giants like Pfizer Inc. and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/035812_Pfizer_Obamacare_collusion.html" target="_blank">by Ethan A. Huff, NaturalNews</a></p>
<p><a href="http://freewestradio.com/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/10482_Healthcare-Bailout.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-22737" src="http://freewestradio.com/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/10482_Healthcare-Bailout.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="112" /></a>Most Americans have no idea what truly went on behind closed doors during the crafting and illegitimate passing of Obamacare, also known as the<em>Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act</em>. But a congressional investigation currently underway is seeking to unearth the dirty details, including how drug giants like Pfizer Inc. and Merck  Co. greased the financial wheels to make sure their pharmaceuticals received preferential treatment as part of the health care overhaul.</p>
<p>As reported by Bloomberg, Republicans from the House Energy and Commerce Committee have been toiling for roughly a year now to obtain key documents, emails and other pertinent information exposing the truth about Big Pharma’s role in the creation of Obamacare. But to date, neither the Obama White House nor Big Pharma has cooperated in any significant way in releasing<em>any</em>of this information, according to the committee.</p>
<p>“This has been like pulling teeth, trying to get information,” said Congressman Michael Burgess (R-Tex.), to Bloomberg. Besides Pfizer and Merck, drug companies Amgen Inc., Abbott Laboratories and AstraZeneca are also being pressed by Rep. Burgess and his allies for information, as are industry lobbyists, lawyers, and several doctor and hospital groups.</p>
<p>What is it they hope to find? To start, it is already clear that Big Pharma agreed to provide price discounts on drugs in exchange for their being covered as part of Obamacare. But other secret deals between Obama and the drug industry were likely made as well, and Rep. Burgess wants to know what those were and under what terms they were negotiated.</p>
<p>“For [Big Pharma], the ACA (Obamacare) is a gift, bringing in anywhere between 30 – 40 million people who could not previously afford pharmaceuticals,” Peter Pitts from the<em>Center for Medicine in the Public Interest</em>is quoted as saying by Medical Marketing and Media.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, at least 26 U.S. states are currently challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare, and the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of Obamacare in late June.</p>
<p>This potential nullification of Obamacare at both the state and federal levels would obviously also nullify the special deals made between the Obama White House and Big Pharma. But for the time being, full disclosure and transparency — which was the hallmark rhetoric of the Obama campaign from the beginning — is in due order.</p>
<p><strong>Sources for this article include:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-04/obama-deal-with-drugmakers-said-to-be-probed-by-house.html" target="_blank">http://www.bloomberg.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/medicine-and-politics-america/2012/jan/15/obamacare-healthcares-new-world-order/" target="_blank">http://communities.washingtontimes.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-files-amicus-curiae-brief-with-u-s-supreme-court-challenging-constitutionality-of-obamacare/" target="_blank">http://www.judicialwatch.org</a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/faithandjustice/2011/10/jay-sekulow-update-on-legal-challenges-to-obamacare.html" target="_blank">http://blog.beliefnet.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.infowars.com/arguments-on-obamacare-conclude-scotus-decision-due-by-late-june/" target="_blank">http://www.infowars.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.mmm-online.com/obamacare-reconsidered-a-pretty-good-deal-for-the-drug-industry/article/233750/" target="_blank">http://www.mmm-online.com</a></p>
<p>Learn more:<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/035812_Pfizer_Obamacare_collusion.html#ixzz1uh7PhKqa">http://www.naturalnews.com/035812_Pfizer_Obamacare_collusion.html#ixzz1uh7PhKqa</a></p>
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		<title>What Will They Say To Say To Shadrach, Meshach, And Abednego?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Chuck Baldwin Let me start with a story. A man who had survived the great Johnstown flood died and went to Heaven. And not long after, all of the inhabitants of Heaven were allowed to take center stage and tell everyone about the most significant event that had happened to them while on Earth. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/archives/4823" target="_blank">by Chuck Baldwin</a></p>
<p><a href="http://militantlibertarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/061.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-22744" src="http://freewestradio.com/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/71377_061-246x300.jpg" alt="" width="246" height="300" /></a>Let me start with a story. A man who had survived the great Johnstown flood died and went to Heaven. And not long after, all of the inhabitants of Heaven were allowed to take center stage and tell everyone about the most significant event that had happened to them while on Earth. The man couldn’t wait to tell everyone about his surviving the great Johnstown flood. After a long wait in line, it was finally his turn. The man was so excited to tell everyone his story. But just as he was climbing the stairs to the platform, an angel leaned over to him and whispered, “Don’t forget; Noah is in the audience.”</p>
<p>I am reminded of that story when I read the Scriptural passage in Hebrews 12: “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses.” The witnesses the Apostle speaks of are the great champions who have gone on before us, which are mentioned in chapter eleven. Included by implication in the great “Hall of Faith” of Hebrews 11 are the three young Hebrews: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (verse 34, “Quenched the violence of fire.”)</p>
<p>So, what was it that got these three young men included in this list that along with the likes of Abraham, Moses, and David? You’ll find their story in Daniel chapter three. In a nutshell, they refused to bow down to the image of the king. In other words, THEY DISOBEYED A CIVIL GOVERNMENT THAT HAD BECOME TYRANNICAL. And for refusing to submit to the king, they were thrown into a burning fiery furnace.</p>
<p>Come to think of it, many of the people named in the Hebrews 11 “Hall of Faith” got there because of civil disobedience. Speaking of Moses, the Scripture says, “By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king.” So, when did Moses forsake Egypt? When he killed the Egyptian taskmaster who was beating a Hebrew slave to death. That’s when!</p>
<p>Rahab is also mentioned in this Biblical “Hall of Faith.” Who was Rahab, and what did she do? She was a prostitute who lied to government soldiers and helped the Hebrew spies escape the city of Jericho. Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthae are also listed. Who are they, and what did they do? They were men who led armed rebellions against oppressive governments to which they had been subject.</p>
<p>Daniel is inferred in Hebrews 11 when it says, “Stopped the mouths of lions.” What did he do? He refused to submit to his civil government when commanded to not pray aloud (for only thirty days). And for refusing to submit to his government, he was cast into a den of hungry lions. Yes, God delivered Daniel from the lions and the three young Hebrews from the burning furnace of fire. But the point is, they each DISOBEYED civil government, and God brags on them for it in Hebrews 11.</p>
<p>So, what are all these “Romans 13-ers” going to say to Daniel, Moses, and Gideon when they get to Heaven? What are they going to say to Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego? What are they going to say to those men who “overthrew kingdoms” (Heb. 11:33), “waxed valiant in combat” (vs. 34), and “turned to flight . . . armies”? (Armies are government-sanctioned, government-supported, government-ordered entities–vs. 34.)</p>
<p>I cannot count the number of times I have heard some TV or radio preacher say something to the effect, “Well, I’m glad we were given freedom here in the United States, but our Founding Fathers were wrong to rebel against the British Crown. According to Romans 13, they should have submitted to King George.” Barf! Gag! Spit! What hypocrisy!</p>
<p>To all of the Romans 13 Pharisees out there, I say, if you are really going to believe and preach that garbage, at least be honest enough to stop celebrating Independence Day on July 4. It was the day when men became traitors to Great Britain and officially declared a revolutionary war. And stop flying the Stars and Stripes in your church auditoriums. It was the flag of rebellion. How dare you say America’s founders violated Romans 13 in one breath and with the next breath say you thank God for the freedom that was purchased AT THE SACRIFICE OF THE BLOOD OF THE MEN YOU SAY VIOLATED ROMANS 13! Pardon me, but I just cannot think of anything that is more hypocritical than that!</p>
<p>And remember this about Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: it was AFTER they disobeyed their king and were thrown into the furnace of fire that they met the Son of God. It was King Nebuchadnezzar who said, “I see four men loose . . . the fourth is like the Son of God.” (Daniel 3:25)</p>
<p>Think about it: where did Moses meet the Lord? In the wilderness by a burning bush after he had defied Egyptian tyranny by killing an Egyptian taskmaster who was beating a Hebrew slave to death. Where did Gideon meet the Lord? In a threshing floor as he willowed his grain in defiance of evil civil authority. When did Stephen meet the Lord? When political and religious leaders were stoning him to death for refusing to submit to their iniquitous injunctions. And think of this, too: where did the Lord Jesus meet man? On a bloody Roman cross–being placed there by the civil and religious rulers of His day.</p>
<p>Most Christians today are looking to meet the Lord in a heated or air conditioned church sanctuary with padded pews and ornate windows, with an orchestra playing and a choir singing, and fried chicken waiting for them after the service. But that’s not where you’re going to find the Fourth Man.</p>
<p>When you resist the religious Pharisees who are trying to intimidate and coerce you into submitting to their legalism and tyranny, then you will see the Fourth Man. When you resist the power establishment that demands that you accept their politically correct philosophies and ideologies, then you will see the Fourth Man. When you refuse to be bought, bribed, or bullied by the “good old boy” network that seeks to control you, then you will see the Fourth Man. When you resist your family and friends who try to shame you into abandoning the principles of liberty and freedom that God, Himself, has planted in your heart, then you will see the Fourth Man. When you are threatened and persecuted and you say, “I must obey God rather than men,” then you will see the Fourth Man.</p>
<p>Do you really think you’re going to find the One who went to a bloody cross in a meadow of roses? The only roses He knew were the ones whose thorns were smashed on his skull. You won’t find him in a garden, unless it’s the Garden of Gethsemane. You’ll find the One who went to the Cross in the same place that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego found Him: in the Burning Fiery Furnace.</p>
<p>God said told us that when we pass through the floodwaters, and when we walk through the fire, we would find Him to be with us. (Isaiah 43:2)</p>
<p>Of course, let me be careful to say that real Christians are peacemakers. They desire to live a quiet and peaceable life with their neighbors, their civil authorities, and even with other nations. They readily recognize and respect lawful, God-ordained authority. But, at the same time, they will not surrender that which is holy and give it to swine! They absolutely will not become toadies for unlawful government that attempts to usurp the God-given authority and jurisdiction to which it has been divinely assigned!</p>
<p>I am often reminded of this quote from Mahatma Gandhi: “There are, I am sorry to say, many Temples in our midst in this country which are no better than brothels.”</p>
<p>Gandhi’s quote could be said of many so-called churches in America today, for they, too, have become little more than glorified brothels that pimp for the government. “Submit! Obey! Don’t resist!” they constantly preach. I wonder what they will say one day to Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego?</p>
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		<title>UN Global Governance Funded by Climate Change Policies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Susanne Posel, ActivistPost The European Union is clamping down on China and India’s carbon emissions, claiming that the Kyoto protocol is outdated. The argument between under-developed nations and industrialized countries has spawned a demand for responsibility for carbon emissions while the fear-mongering of man-made climate change moves into the political areas. After failing to convince [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2012/05/un-global-governance-funded-by-climate.html" target="_blank">by Susanne Posel, ActivistPost</a></p>
<p><a href="http://freewestradio.com/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/25f45_environmental-300x262.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-22751" src="http://freewestradio.com/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/25f45_environmental-300x262.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="175" /></a>The European Union is clamping down on China and India’s carbon emissions, claiming that the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/09/climate-change-china-india-carbon-emissions">Kyoto protocol is outdated</a>.</p>
<p>The argument between under-developed nations and industrialized countries has spawned a demand for responsibility for carbon emissions while the fear-mongering of man-made climate change moves into the political areas.</p>
<p>After failing to convince the scientific communities that this propaganda holds up while real world empirical data holds evidence that the projections have been derived from fraudulent computer models, the alarmists are seeking governmental approval. Because scaring elected officials into mandating climate change policies ratified by the UN is easier than changing the general population’s perspective.</p>
<p><a name="more" id="more"></a>In 1997, the Kyoto protocol was formulated from the UN Rio+20 Earth Summit just five years prior. Technological advancing nations like China and India were left out of the obligated countries to curb emissions outputs.</p>
<p>World leaders backed by the UN are prompting questions about the applicability of the Kyoto protocol as unfair, while China moves ahead to become another industrialized country.</p>
<p>In a two-day meeting preceding global climate change talks, Connie Hedegaard, the European climate chief said, “Countries have recognized that the old division between developed and developing countries – there are limits to how useful that is in the 21st century.”</p>
<p>A new global treaty is championed as the answer to carbon emissions. While scientific data shows that carbon dioxide has nothing to do with the temperature of the earth, climate change alarmists are using this manufactured threat to usher in global treaties to usurp nations’ sovereign right to conduct business, as well as force governments to pay a global “carbon tax” as a funding source for development and manufacturing for products the alarmists plan on selling to nations and individuals as a necessity for the coming “global warming age”.</p>
<p>By November of this year, Hedegaard hopes to see a new treaty ratified that will begin a new era of falsified claims that the control over man is an imperative to save the planet.</p>
<p>Hedegaard said: “We need to set out a work program [for drawing up a global agreement] and how to get there.”</p>
<p>The European Union is developing strategies to securitize under-developed countries to coerce their governments into adopting the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/10/scientists-focus-environmental-dilemmas">new global agreements </a>to be signed by 2015 and fully implemented by 2020.</p>
<p>China is weary of such global agreements as they mask the global governance agenda. One governing body, which has been slated as the UN, will regulate and classify countries under a new agreement binding obligations to force tyrannical ruling over what are now independent nations.</p>
<p>Climate change alarmists have banded scientists together for their continued assault against governmental roles in the created “global dilemmas” of clean water and energy use.</p>
<p>Statements to governments from alarmist-backed scientists are admonishing world governments to “engage the international research community in developing systematic, innovative solutions” to these pressing problems.</p>
<p>These scientists believe that water and energy securitization by international bodies will assist in the proper management and distribution of resources to those who need them.</p>
<p>While clean water supplies are dwindling, the cost of these endeavors should be allocated into a global taxation as to equally distribute the financing. The scientists urge centralized governments to plan, invest and enforce measures to mitigate the destruction of natural resources by natural disasters.</p>
<p>Public health management is an imperative as the world’s population growth has exceeded the international communities’ expectations. There is a call for development and manufacturing of greenhouse safe products; however, the allocation of funding toward research for finding a way to mitigate or even stop climate change effects seems to be left out.</p>
<p>The business of climate change is expected to be quite lucrative for those successful at convincing authoritative bodies that these technologies must be purchased by their nation and mandated for use by their citizens.</p>
<p>In the end, the cost of climate change trickles down to the citizens.</p>
<p>The scientists demand international cooperation and an agreed-upon methodology that is overseen by a central governing body. This will ensure that nations adhere to the agreement.</p>
<p><em>Susanne Posel is the Chief Editor of <a href="http://occupycorporatism.com/"><strong>Occupy Corporatism</strong></a>. Our alternative news site is dedicated to reporting the news as it actually happens; not as it is spun by the corporately funded mainstream media. You can find us on <strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Corporatism/227213404014035/">our Facebook page</a></strong>.</em></p>
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		<title>Religions And Political Parties: What’s The Difference?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Clint Richardson In my last article, I revealed that the Social Security System has been implemented in over 130 countries, that it is run by the United Nations and World Bank, and that it was created by the League of Nations 8 years before it was implemented in the United States. I then referred [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://realitybloger.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/religions-and-political-parties-whats-the-difference/" target="_blank">by Clint Richardson</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://realitybloger.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/social-security-the-international-mark-of-the-beast/">Link here</a></p>
<p>Surprised by the response, I was truly disappointed at the comments left by readers. I found the rigidness of their religious dogma disturbing to say the least, literally bypassing the facts presented in lieu of correcting biblical citations and interpretations. And thus, I started thinking about how religion often takes people away from not only knowledge itself – but from God Himself; how the legal system takes the simplicity out of God’s law to <em>do no harm</em>; how corporations like pharmaceuticals take God’s natural healing out of medicine; and – depending on which of the over 1,000 one true religions they are a member of – how similar the joining of a religion is to the joining of a political party. And so I came up with the following list…</p>
<p>?</p>
<p>Religion and Political Parties<br />
What’s the Difference?</p>
<p>?</p>
<p>Both start out with a corporate charter of beliefs by the leaders of that religion or political party.</p>
<p>These charters and beliefs are claimed by both entities to be divinely inspired.</p>
<p>Both change these charters and beliefs as times change, as technology improves, as law requires it, and as opposing knowledge and books become more accessible to the public at large.</p>
<p>Both are registered with the State via their Articles of Incorporation.</p>
<p>Both write and re-write history; and then edit and interpret their own writings.</p>
<p>They are both a form of control, both in political and moral<em>correctness</em>.</p>
<p>Members of both fear excommunication and public ridicule for questioning or acting against these chartered beliefs.</p>
<p>Political parties make the laws of the land and command consent, while religions teach that members must follow the “law of the land” as God commands.</p>
<p>Both give power to otherwise powerless men, who dress in robes and judge all people.</p>
<p>Political parties call law the Bible. Religions call the Bible the law.</p>
<p>Both must swear upon and to the bible (God) before giving testimony.</p>
<p>Both project a public persona that each is separate from the other…</p>
<p>Yet both are hopelessly intertwined.</p>
<p>You must be registered to both to be a member…</p>
<p>If you are not registered to both, your voice doesn’t count and your vote is not counted.</p>
<p>You are allowed to change political parties or religions at any time – as long as you are in one of them and aren’t thinking for yourself.</p>
<p>Both claim to be transparent and honest, doing their deeds in the light…</p>
<p>Yet both are well known to hide some of their deeds in the dark; without disclosure, and even against the very ethics they set for themselves.</p>
<p>Both claim to be non-profit…</p>
<p>And both avoid taxes on their for-profit ventures.</p>
<p>One allows atonement of sin through faith, followed by probationary good behavior…</p>
<p>The other allows atonement of sin through prison (or execution), followed by probationary good behavior…</p>
<p>And both offer these atoning people free bibles and religious last rights.</p>
<p>Both include many minority races and creeds…</p>
<p>And both focus those cultural differences into one divinely inspired political focus – to the detriment of any minorities who won’t consent or believe.</p>
<p>Both are non-governmental corporations that heavily influence government and politics.</p>
<p>Both have a list of ten things for which many of their beliefs are influenced in a major way…</p>
<p>Both preach these rights, ethics, morals, and family values virtually non-stop…</p>
<p>Both continuously break their promises to uphold these or live by example.</p>
<p>Both have been caught many times over in pedophilia related activities…</p>
<p>Both are very protective of this fact and the people involved in these activities…</p>
<p>Both have public relations officers to handle the public’s outrage at these actions so as to ensure the continuity of the corporation…</p>
<p>And both are protected from these crimes and from any major public scrutiny or punishment by the court system (BAR) and in the mainstream media (Public Opinion).</p>
<p>Both are the subjects of countless jokes made in poor taste.</p>
<p>Both rely on the ignorance of their members with regards to their business related and political activities…</p>
<p>And both despise watch-dog groups.</p>
<p>Both accept and rely on donations.</p>
<p>Both have leaders that wear expensive suits and receive very good pensions.</p>
<p>Both promise hope and change to the poor and working class, but never quite deliver.</p>
<p>Both offer a welfare system that’s never quite enough to really make a difference in society… other than to maintain the poverty level.</p>
<p><em>“In God We Trust”</em> is the credo of both – after all, it says so on the thing they both worship the most.</p>
<p>Both have national and international rules and codes…</p>
<p>Both have members who do not question these rules or their leaders for fear of public ostracizing and ridicule.</p>
<p>Both have a healthy fear of some of the other well-connected-to-each-other members.</p>
<p>Both adhere to strict political correctness in public…</p>
<p>Yet both talk badly about other members behind their backs, and sometimes even in public forums or elections.</p>
<p>Both affect the lives of every person in the world… whether those people are members or not.</p>
<p>Both claim that they know what is best for We, the People.</p>
<p>Both declare that they are the one true and only way to salvation…</p>
<p>Both promise this eventual salvation from tyranny and evil – if only their members will have faith in them and wait patiently, for long enough…</p>
<p>Of course, both have been making this promise for many, many, many generations.</p>
<p>Both blame every other political party or religion for all of the problems in the world.</p>
<p>Both influence and help to define and legislate the legal definition of marriage…</p>
<p>Both cooperate and promote marriage as a legally binding contract where the State is the third party and legal owner of the fruits (children) of that marriage…</p>
<p>And both veil this legal contract in God’s will and blessing; providing marriage “ceremonies” and “services”.</p>
<p>Both claim that the constitution of the United States was divinely inspired, despite the opposite opinions of the personal writings of many of the founding fathers (prophets) that signed it.</p>
<p>Sadly, both believe and falsely preach that the right to congregate in public and worship comes from the constitution and “Bill Of Rights” instead of from God Himself.</p>
<p>Both are effusively and irrevocably supportive of the illegal “State” of Israel.</p>
<p>Both define Jews as the chosen people.</p>
<p>Both are more afraid of AIPAC and the ADL than of the devil himself.</p>
<p>Both are heavily influenced by the United Nations.</p>
<p>The CIA and other government agencies have infiltrated both.</p>
<p>Government regulates both.</p>
<p>And yet both pay little or no taxes to government.</p>
<p>—?—</p>
<p>And after all of this… do you still wonder who came up with the<br />
rule that you shouldn’t discuss religion or politics in mixed company?</p>
<p>—?—</p>
<p>Next article: Priests And Politicians: Is There A Difference?</p>
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		<title>How to prepare for the collapse even on a tight budget</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jonathan Benson, NaturalNews Preparing for the inevitable collapse of society as we know it can be a daunting task, particularly when it means forking over wads of cash to purchase expensive preparedness supplies in the midst of a flailing economy. But Brandon Smith fromAlt-Market.comhas put together a helpful piece entitledThe Poor Man&#8217;s Guide to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/035808_preparedness_budget_collapse.html" target="_blank">by Jonathan Benson, NaturalNews</a></p>
<p>Preparing for the inevitable collapse of society as we know it can be a daunting task, particularly when it means forking over wads of cash to purchase expensive preparedness supplies in the midst of a flailing economy. But Brandon Smith from<em>Alt-Market.com</em>has put together a helpful piece entitled<em>The Poor Man&#8217;s Guide to Survival Gear</em>that we think might be useful in helping our readers to make informed, rational, and frugal preparedness purchasing decisions.</p>
<p>With so many companies and stores now selling preparedness supplies &#8212; heck, even warehouse wholesaler Costco now sells an emergency food kit &#8212; it can be confusing to sort through and discern which supplies are actually useful, and which ones are just overpriced, fear-based hype. To help simplify this process, consider the following useful tips:</p>
<p>A &#8220;bug-out&#8221; bag, complete with warm, weatherproof, and water-resistant clothing is an absolute must for any preparedness situation. But these items can be costly if you do not know what to look for, and where to look for it. Smith recommends buying military surplus goods like an Alice Pack (<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=alice+packs&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a#q=alice+packs&amp;hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;hs=Vxm&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;prmd=imvns&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=shop&amp;ei=KVqkT-qUNJOctweVtLzmBA&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=mode_link&amp;ct=mode&amp;cd=6&amp;ved=0CEsQ_AUoBQ&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&amp;fp=6940d47c3c1bc011&amp;biw=723&amp;bih=739" target="_blank">http://www.google.com</a>), for instance, which is a far cheaper bug-out bag than, say, a designer hiking backpack you might find at a place like REI.</p>
<p>Along the same lines, Smith recommends frequenting military surplus stores and suppliers for other necessary goods like waterproof jackets, winter coats, combat boots, and knives. These items can often be found used for a fraction of their original price, and even when new, they are typically far less expensive than similar items found at sporting goods stores and online preparedness websites.</p>
<p>Generating energy for heat and cooking during a crisis is tricky, especially when sources of liquid fuel are in short supply. This is why Smith recommends buying a wood-burning stove like the M-1941 Military Tent Stove. Unless you can afford to invest in solar energy production systems and battery backup generators, wood-burning stoves are a great alternative that will allow you a virtually unlimited supply of free energy for generating heat.</p>
<p>But even solar panels are less expensive than most people probably think they are, as advances in solar technology and more widespread use has led to a continuing decline in production costs, which means less expensive products for consumers. Smith recommends purchasing a 180-watt solar panel, a deep-cycle battery, a charge controller, and an inverter. Such systems can be purchased in a kit for as little as $600, and are capable of fully powering necessary appliances in the event of a crisis.</p>
<p>Be sure to check out Smith&#8217;s full list of preparedness advice and recommendations at:<a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-preparedness/the-poor-man%E2%80%99s-guide-to-survival-gear_12152011" target="_blank">http://www.shtfplan.com</a></p>
<p>You can also check out his survivalist page at:<br />
<a href="http://www.alt-market.com/" target="_blank">http://www.alt-market.com/</a></p>
<p>Also, be sure to check out the Health Ranger&#8217;s internet seminar<em>How To Protect and Defend Yourself</em>. This preparedness course, which isstreamed on demand, will teach you valuable survival skills and how to protect yourself and your family in the event of a collapse:<br />
<a href="http://www.healthrangerlive.com/">www.HealthRangerLIVE.com</a></p>
<p>Learn more:<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/035808_preparedness_budget_collapse.html#ixzz1uh8CNfCO">http://www.naturalnews.com/035808_preparedness_budget_collapse.html#ixzz1uh8CNfCO</a></p>
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		<title>The Greatest Truth Never Told</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 15:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://TheGreatestTruthNeverTold.com The Greatest Truth Never Told (TGTNT) is a video series that has been 7 years in research and development.  It is centered around the truth that humanity has been enslaved over and over again throughout history.  TGTNT lays out the case for even the most cynical and indoctrinated individual that… The paradigm which we [...]]]></description>
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<p>The Greatest Truth Never Told (TGTNT) is a video series that has been 7 years in research and development.  It is centered around the truth that humanity has been enslaved over and over again throughout history.  TGTNT lays out the case for even the most cynical and indoctrinated individual that…</p>
<ul>
<li>The paradigm which we operate under is mathematically going to end.</li>
<li>The end of the world as we know it does not mean it is the end of the world.</li>
<li>The way of life we are currently leading is pulling humanity down and should be shown the door.</li>
<li>We cannot change the world to make our self happy or free.</li>
<li>We must change our self to make the world happy and free.</li>
<li>The awakening process is a very hard road for those with no guidance.</li>
<li>All of the problems we face in the world start and stop within our consciousness.</li>
<li>When you realize that you have this power, nothing can stop this change.</li>
<li>Humanity has the ability to truly free themselves once and for all.</li>
</ul>
<p>And that is just Part 1. of Denial.</p>
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		<title>Wrong Guy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 21:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Agitator Back to Portland. The City Council approved a $250,000 settlement Wednesday to a man mistaken by police as a tagger and was hit with a stun gun over and over. A jury wanted the city to pay for a police officer using excessive force. Police took down Dan Halsted while he was just [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://militantlibertarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Halsted.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-22690" src="http://freewestradio.com/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/70da5_Halsted-300x229.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="229" /></a><a href="http://www.katu.com/news/local/City-to-pay-man-250000-after-police-mistake-him-as-a-tagger-149012465.html">Back to Portland.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>The City Council approved a $250,000 settlement Wednesday to a man mistaken by police as a tagger and was hit with a stun gun over and over.</p>
<p>A jury wanted the city to pay for a police officer using excessive force.</p>
<p>Police took down Dan Halsted while he was just innocently walking home. The officer stunned Halsted five times with a Taser in the back because he thought he sprayed some graffiti.</p>
<p>Halsted was tackled by a Portland police officer in the Northeast Portland neighborhood of Sullivan’s Gulch four years ago.</p>
<p>“I was walking home and all of a sudden a flashlight came on in my eyes and I stopped, and I heard a voice say, ‘Get him!’ And I heard footsteps coming at me, so I turned and I ran.”</p>
<p>In the pitch dark, Halsted thought he was being jumped.</p>
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<p>“I didn’t know what was going on,” he said. “I was screaming to call the police the whole time, and I didn’t realize this was the police because they never identified themselves at all.”</p>
<p>Police had mistaken Halsted for a tagger who hit a nearby building.</p>
<p>“The arresting officer in his police report, he made up a whole other story and said that I had been running down the street with a couple other people.”</p>
<p>That’s the same thing the officer testified to in court when Halsted sued. In reality Halsted had been with friends at the Rose and Thistle Restaurant and was never charged with any crime.</p>
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<p>The unsettling implication lurking beneath this story is that if Halsted <em>had</em> been spraying graffiti, this sort of treatment would have been perfectly appropriate. Also, I love this . . .</p>
<blockquote><p>During the trial, the city’s attorney tried to use Halsted’s classic kung fu film collection against him, saying it proved he was violent.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Of course, taxpayers will pay the award. And as far as I can tell, <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/03/federal_jury_rules_against_por.html#comments">Officer Benjamin J. Davidson</a> is still on the police force. (The article above doesn’t mention his name.)</p>
<p>I was surprised to learn that <a href="http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/31.735">under Oregon law</a>, 60 percent of punitive damages awarded in suits like this go not to the brutality vicitim, but to a fund for crime victims. And another 10 percent goes to . . . a fund for Oregon state courts. Really.</p>
<p>But given that Halsted won in federal court, it isn’t clear to me that Oregon state law would apply to this case. Anyone know?</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Life of Illusion In politics, a partisan is a committed member of a political party. In multi-party systems, the term is widely understood to carry a negative connotation – referring to those who wholly support their party’s policies and are perhaps even reluctant to acknowledge correctness on the part of their political opponents in almost any situation. Partisanship [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://standupforamerica.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/partisan-done-but-you-should-read-the-ending/" target="_blank">by Life of Illusion</a></p>
<p><a href="http://militantlibertarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/republican_democrat_the_donald_tshirt-p235270843726847247zvtdy_400.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-22684" src="http://freewestradio.com/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/6dafb_republican_democrat_the_donald_tshirt-p235270843726847247zvtdy_400-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a>In politics, a <strong>partisan</strong> is a committed member of a <a title="Political party" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party">political party</a>. In <a title="Multi-party system" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-party_system">multi-party systems</a>, the term is widely understood to carry a negative connotation – referring to those who wholly support their party’s policies and are perhaps even reluctant to acknowledge correctness on the part of their political opponents in almost any situation. Partisanship can be affected by many factors including current events, figureheads (presidents), decisions, and even location.</p>
<p>In the United States,  “partisan” has come to refer to an individual with a psychological identification with one or the other of the major parties.</p>
<p><em>“I have no objection. Let the electorate see the real reason a lot of republicans oppose Obama.”</em></p>
<p>I shouldn’t be offended since I’m not a Republican, but I do oppose Obama and don’t think that comment reflects well on me and most who have and are speaking out on today’s issues.  The TeaParty was vocal about fiscal responsibility and was called racist.  Please, let the electorate see the real reason a lot of democrats support Obama.  The price of gasoline alone is issue enough to call for his being thrown out.  He railed against Bush when oil prices spiked, by his own words and standards, Obama should be thrown out of office.  He is constantly attacking the “fat cats” on WallStreet while showing compassion for the man on the street suffering thru these hard times.  But who is more responsible for those hard times, WallStreet or OvalStreet?  The guy in the oval office, wearing out our printing presses with “qualitative easing”.  How much has the value of the dollar dropped since he took office?  WallStreet didn’t cause that and the decrease in what you can buy for a dollar.  The one defense I will offer for WallStreet is at least they are honest in what they seek, it’s all about the money!</p>
<p><em>HOWARD STERN: Who should be the next President of the United States Elle MacPherson, go ahead.</em></p>
<p><em>ELLE MACPHERSON: I think Obama’s going to do it.</em></p>
<p><em>STERN: You like Obama?</em></p>
<p><em>MACPHERSON: Yeah, I’m living in London and I’m socialist. What do you expect?(1)</em></p>
<p>Obama has made some promises and like others before him, failed to keep many.  Myself, I don’t care or mean to harp about  those he was wrong or nieve to make.  In many cases, he simply cannot fund/spend money as he would like without the agreement of both Congress and the Senate.  He wanted to spend more on cancer research, but could not get the support.  I don’t blame him for trying and failing on cancer.  I do blame him for promising to reduce the deficit and balance the budget, then submit a budget that achieves said balance and deficit goals some ten years after he’s out of office.(3)  I think Bush spent too much on the “War On Terrorism”, but let’s be honest, this was life and death.  Blame Bush for using 9/11 to incite the masses, but Congress and the Senate voted for the war.  That means we legally committed our solder’s to go in harm’s way.  That also means any person of conscience does not begrudge them whatever bullets or bandages they request.  Sure we get hosed sometimes like a MASH episode, draw a line thru the M16 and write pizza oven in and you will receive.  The thing is, Obama has spent, not on war, but on his agenda.  Oh, but thousands are dyeing in the streets of America. There is some truth to that, I remember Chicago had over 300 in its morgue, way more than they could processes.  They had to put two bodies in some coolers which broke some state laws but was mandated by other state laws.  Something about identifying/notifying and retaining the deceased body until efforts had been satisfied.  So to be very non-PC, how does ObamaCare fix the homeless or the drug addicts?  It has been US law that if they presented themselves to an emergency room, including the free ambulance ride, they would receive treatment.  Again, harsh reality, all the money in the world could not save Whitney Huston, Michael Jackson or Elvis.  So what are the visible results of Obama’s trillions of spending vs GWB’s trillions?  I’m still irritated (not surprised) at the thousands of dollars of increased health insurance costs I’ve paid since this came out, where are the promised “savings”?</p>
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<p><em>The jobs-killing Obamacare law contains 20 new or higher taxes on American families and employers. Many of these tax increases fall on families making less than $250,000 — a direct violation of candidate Obama’s promise not to raise “any form” of taxes on these families. This Friday marks the second anniversary of Obamacare being signed into law. The Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments about the constitutionality of Obamacare next week.</em></p>
<p><em>Out of the 20 new or higher taxes in Obamacare, there are four that most hurt young adults and children. Every single one of these taxes violates President Obama’s <a href="http://www.atr.org/obamas-tax-pledge-documentation-a5282" target="_blank">“firm pledge”</a> not to raise any form of taxes on families making less than $250,000.(oops, sorry, new ‘puter just erased instead of copied.  Source was the Daily Caller)</em></p>
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A sad truth to me, Obama did tell us what he hoped to do, the masses just heard what they wanted, with no thought to the cost.  I talk to a wide variety of people, and even the poor blacks are unhappy with the high gas prices.  They tell me they are not sure if they will vote for Obama again, or don’t answer.</p>
<p><em>Before catapulting to prominence, the president complained that thanks to constraints instituted by our Founders, “The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice.”  Obama’s justice ensures not that transactions are freely entered and fairly measured, but that bureaucrats enforce results fancied per the fluttering fashions of political correctness.</em></p>
<p><em>Still, most Americans would deny Obama’s Marxist outlook, mistaking the term’s meaning as synonymous with Stalin or Mao.  Marxist theory informed many of history’s most murderous tyrants, but Obama’s brand is the emasculated theorizing of the faculty lounge.  He neither intends similar mayhem nor has such means in our constitutional republic.</em></p>
<p><em>Further confusion revolves around textbook definitions as production remains primarily private.  We still exhibit generally free markets, although our economic liberty rapidly erodes</em>. If<em> socialism connotes complete public ownership of society’s productive infrastructure,</em> and <em>capitalism represents purely private property with minimal state interference,</em> then <em>few examples of either exist. (4)</em></p>
<p><em>Boehner thought he had worked out a deal with Obama, a deal which included $800 billion in additional revenues, largely from future growth. This would be worked out through projections involving a “macro estimate”:</em></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“(T)he macro estimate was essential to Boehner; he needed it to make the argument that a decent chunk of the additional revenue could come through growth and stepped-up compliance, and thus Congress wouldn’t need to actually raise anybody’s rates to get it done. Boehner left that Sunday meeting convinced that Geithner, in particular, understood and accepted this condition.</em></p>
<p><em>But in his counteroffer, Obama had reversed the formulation so that the tax revenue figure – now at $1.16 trillion – would be the minimum that rewriting the code could achieve (a floor), rather than a maximum (a ceiling). With a slight turn of phrase, he rejected Boehner’s entire premise that growth could be counted on to deliver some of the revenue. (did it again, this is from American Thinker)</em></p>
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<p>  There are Republicans out there that would vote for George Zimmerman if he were in the primary!  And there are Democrats who will vote for Obama and never question if he’s right or wrong by their personal beliefs.  There are also true “Progressives”, who in MHO, are trying to walk us down the path to socialism.  I don’t see the extremists on the right having as much sway, but could be blinded by my own bias.  What about liberal bias?  Do you assume ignorance rather than look in the mirror?  If you believe in AGW and think we must drastically reduce our use of fossil fuels, are we going about it in the right way?  Seems to me even if you force the USA to stop, China and India will simply surpass us and the earth continues on its path while we give up our way of life?  China has dropped most of their green energy projects and has scaled up their coal use and imports.  Is it OK to mine coal in the US if it is exported to China?</p>
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