The NATIONAL STRIKE, April 15th – 18th, is NOT ABOUT tax evasion, anarchy, hatred, or political affiliation. It’s about clarification, education, accountability and integrity. Video at bottom of article.

Tax Free 15 – The Strike is about realizing that a well thought out and documented plan for global government has been in place for over 100 years, and in order to reach that goal, no country or people, could be left strong enough to think for themselves or remain independent of policies enacted by federal and local governments, all working together to achieve the bottom line; all funded by banking schemes and the families behind them, who own the banks and world governments already.

The Strike is about personal sovereignty, with the freedom to think for ourselves. We must recognize that we’ve all been exploited, lied to, and encouraged to give away our power to others who will make decisions concerning our lives, without our consent or approval: enforced through the military or police, if we refuse to comply. Our country spends over a billion dollars a week on war, while we lose our retirement funds, pension plans, health care benefits, and the purchasing power of our dollars, with our government using us for collateral on their huge debt, signing away our land and our future in order to keep borrowing.

The Strike is about our sons and daughters, taught to pledge their lives in defense of our country, sent to invade and occupy foreign lands without an official declaration of war by our congress, which is the only government body with the power to officially do so. “Here is a shocking statistic that you won’t hear in most western news media: over the past nine years, more US military personnel have taken their own lives than have died in action in either the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. These are official figures from the US Department of Defense, yet somehow they have not been deemed newsworthy to report. Last year alone, more than 330 serving members of the US armed forces committed suicide – more than the 320 killed in Afghanistan and the 150 who fell in Iraq (see wsws.org)”*taken from: http://www.infowars.com/a-sign-of-empire-pathology-more-us-soldiers-commit-suicide-than-killed-in-action/

We have lost our ability to think for ourselves, and believe we must be protected and taken care of by our government, instead of become self-sufficient within our communities. This is about enslavement, incrementally, with media brainwashing and misdirection on a global scale. Fluoride in our water, first used in Soviet Gulags and then Nazi concentration camps, was found to make prisoners more docile………….search that one for yourselves and do it before full internet censorship is called for in the name of fighting “terrorism”.

We have been trained to accept numerous toxins in our food supply: dyes, genetically manipulated food that is unlabeled, milk, related to every form of cancer and juvenile diabetes ( The China Study, by T. Collin Campbell”) is still actively promoted by well meaning but clueless celebrities, for whom profit is more important than learning about what they are actually promoting. Money has become our God.

Pharmaceutical companies do not make money off of healthy people with the full power of mental acuity. Think about all the drugs in your bathroom cabinet, and the fact that while doctors easily hand out prescriptions for those, the FDA is actively persecuting natural and holistic remedies, and limiting our access to them. Follow the money trail and open your minds. Could all of our toxic food also be adding to our problems? What is the FDA doing and how is it they allow this to happen? What about Vaccines? What is really falling from our skies in the form of chem trails? http://www.californiaskywatch.com/ will give you more information on a subject we’ve been taught to dismiss Why is that?

Could weather modification exist? Does our government have the capability of causing earthquakes? http://www.haarp.com/

What is the real story about where all of our tax dollars go?www.whereisthemoney.org & www.thecostofwar.com

Could what we don’t know really be used against us???

Yes. And at the same time they distract us with American Idol, Glenn Beck, Fox, CNN, football games, and all the rest of useless celebrity gossip fed to us 24/7, they are killing us.

This is about propaganda on a global scale, with the objective of total enslavement for those of us who survive, and extermination for those of us who don’t. That is not an exaggeration.

Now I realize that many of those who read this will automatically dismiss it as conspiracy theories from a deranged mind. My challenge is this: Prove me wrong! Search for the Truth yourselves instead of allowing it to be turned into an insult. People speak of a third political party, well I think every political hopeful should first and foremost be a member of the Truther Party! And proud to be one! Seeking the Truth is a goal of people with high morals and integrity, but instead we’ve been trained to ridicule those who have enough courage to do so. That in itself should set off every alarm bell within your mind as an extreme example of doublespeak which must be exposed! We all deserve to take a “Time Out” and look at just how far we’ve fallen!!! We the People need a break in order to find out what’s really going on!!!! It’s time for a Patriotic Holiday for the People, prior to Patriot’s Day, because NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN SAVING OUR COUNTRY AND OURSELVES!

Let’s take April 15-18, turn off our television sets, and do our own homework. Research these seemingly outrageous claims for ourselves. Go towww.taxfree15.com and the links page, follow your instincts, read and watch documentaries with your families, so you can make educated decisions. America: Freedom to Fascism found on the first page is a great place to start.http://www.infowars.com/ and http://www.prisonplanet.tv/ have up to date real news and well documented films available. http://realityreport.tv/ is another great site.

At the very least ,you know in your hearts that something is terribly wrong with our country and our world, and our government has refused to listen to us or address our concerns.

As long as we go about our lives as usual, as long as we continue to give away our power by accepting what others tell us, instead of researching for ourselves, and as long as we continue to be deceived by partisan politics, we’ll continue to be part of the problem instead of part of the solution, paying the ultimate price with our children, many of whom are too young to research for themselves. They depend on us.

We have the God given Rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. If those ideals are important to us, if the fact that our constitution has been trampled is important to us, if Truth is important to us, especially since it is now being used as insult, instead of as a badge of courage and honor, than we must heed a call to peaceful non-compliance and action. If not for ourselves, then for our children and unborn descendants, who we’ve already condemned to debt slavery through our lack of challenging our government gone wild, and holding those accountable who have gambled on our compliance and won.

If these words have fanned the flame of freedom and true patriotism within your soul, stand with us. The four strike days are actually only 2 work days, Thursday and Friday, and then the weekend, with Patriot’s Day following on Monday the 19^th. This gives everyone time to research my allegations, for even if only half of what I claim is true, it is way beyond acceptable and must be addressed. Set aside what you think you know in order to take the time with your families to learn and study history, our Constitution, and read the words and quotations of the people in power to learn what they really say about us.http://www.taxfree15.com/ has an education page with quotations listed.

If our Constitution is important to you, then check out the Articles of Freedom athttp://www.articlesoffreedom.us/

National Strike Guidelines:

April 15-18 we are calling out to every individual, sovereign being in this country as well as around the world, who believes that true freedom, peace, and prosperity is important, to stand with us by withdrawing as much labor, support, and money as possible, from governments gone wild globally, for four consecutive days. If you feel that your job or schooling is necessary, then participate in the other steps.

Step 2 is an economic boycott of all corporate sponsored products and events during that time. Don’t buy anything, unless it’s from a locally owned Mom & Pop shop. Keep your money in your pocket and help us send a clear message to the offshore bankers who own our government that “WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR DEBT!

This step is encouraged to happen the 15^th of every month, as a reminder of our goal and to garner support until our numbers and our message is no longer able to be ignored by the privately owned media, and “We the People” take our rightful place as the overseer’s of our lives and our governments .

Step 3 is to withdraw our money from large corporate banks: Citi Bank, Bank of America, etc, and consider supporting small local banks or credit unions, or even starting our own community banks. Think about getting off the grid, storable food, water filters, and what you need in order to protect your homes and your families.

Last but not least, ask WHY? Why are we allowing our government to spend over a billion dollars a week on war while they take our homes and want to tax us for breathing?

Why are we allowing our Constitution to be ignored?

Why are we supporting politicians who lie to us? Education is key! Please take the time to read this article and forward the link:

http://pupaganda.com/originals/Unplug_the_signal.html

NOW PICK UP THE PHONE AND ASK YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THESE SAME QUESTIONS! TELL THEM YOU SUPPORT THE STRIKE, AND ACCOUNTABLITY TO THE PEOPLE! IF YOU BELIEVE RESTORING OUR CONSTITUTION IS A GOOD IDEA, TELL THEM THAT & ADD YOUR NAME TO THE PETITION THAT WILL BE SERVED ON PATRIOTS DAY AT ALL STATE CAPITOLS! www.articlesoffreedom.us

Participate in the online educational programs about the Constitution and the Articles of Freedom that will be offered during the NATIONAL STRIKE days. What could be more Patriotic than well educated Americans, empowered, and standing for Freedom, together, as we rebuild our country from the inside out? And how can we educate ourselves unless we step back and grant ourselves the opportunity to do that TOGETHER, AS ONE PEOPLE?

Now you know the reasons for our strike. As long as we continue to go about business as usual, nothing will change. A peaceful disruption of our daily lives is necessary and urgent considering the threat of another war and more taxes based on the lies of global warming, another topic that must be explored before we pay for the privilege of breathing or believe our exhalation is toxic, while overlooking private planes and limousines used by politicians at our expense, literally! It is time to turn off our televisions and turn our attention to online sources of real education.

DON’T BUY, DON’T COMPLY, ASK WHY???

NATIONAL STRIKE & EDUCATION DAYS APRIL 15-18TH.

JOIN US! STAND FOR PEACE & FREEDOM!

SUPPORT OUR CONSTITUTION AND OUR RIGHTS TO OVERSEE GOVERNMENT, WHICH IS SET UP TO PROTECT, NOT EXPLOIT US!

And that’s all there is to it! Feel free to use this article as you see fit. Encourage people to join us on our weekly conference calls Wednesday evenings at 7 pm pacific, and Saturday mornings 11 am pacific. 712-775-7200 access code 431669#

POWER TO THE PEOPLE THROUGH PEACEFUL UNITY!

According to news reports, the U.S. military is shipping “bunker-buster” bombs to the U.S. Air Force base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The Herald Scotland reports that experts say the bombs are being assembled for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

The newspaper quotes Dan Piesch, director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the University of London: “They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran.”

The next step will be a staged “terrorist attack,” a “false flag” operation as per Operation Northwoods, for which Iran will be blamed. As Iran and its leadership have already been demonized, the “false flag” attack will suffice to obtain US and European public support for bombing Iran. The bombing will include more than the nuclear facilities and will continue until the Iranians agree to regime change and the installation of a puppet government. The corrupt American media will present the new puppet as “freedom and democracy.”

If the past is a guide, Americans will fall for the deception. In the February issue of the American Behavioral Scientist, a scholarly journal, Professor Lance DeHaven-Smith writes that state crimes against democracy (SCAD) involve government officials, often in combination with private interests, that engage in covert activities in order to implement an agenda. Examples include McCarthyism or the fabrication of evidence of communist infiltration, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution based on false claims of President Johnson and Pentagon chief McNamara that North Vietnam attacked a U.S. naval vessel, the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist in order to discredit Ellsberg (the Pentagon Papers) as “disturbed,” and the falsified “intelligence” that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction in order to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

There are many other examples. I have always regarded the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City as a SCAD. Allegedly, a disturbed Tim McVeigh used a fertilizer bomb in a truck parked outside the building. More likely, McVeigh was a patsy, whose fertilizer bomb was a cover for explosives planted inside the building.

A number of experts dismissed the possibility of McVeigh’s bomb producing such structural damage. For example, General Benton K. Partin, who was in charge of U.S. Air Force munitions design and testing, produced a thick report on the Murrah building bombing which concluded that the building blew up from the inside out. Gen. Partin concluded that “the pattern of damage would have been technically impossible without supplementary demolition charges at some of the reinforced concrete bases inside the building, a standard demolition technique. For a simplistic blast truck bomb, of the size and composition reported, to be able to reach out on the order of 60 feet and collapse a reinforced column base the size of column A7 is beyond credulity.”

Gen. Partin dismissed the official report as “a massive cover-up of immense proportions.”

Of course, the general’s unquestionable expertise had no bearing on the outcome. One reason is that his and other expert voices were drowned out by media pumping the official story. Another reason is that public beliefs in a democracy run counter to suspicion of government as a terrorist agent. Professor Laurie Manwell of the University of Guelph says that “false flag” operations have the advantage over truth: “research shows that people are far less willing to examine information that disputes, rather than confirms, their beliefs.” Professor Steven Hoffman agrees: “Our data shows substantial support for a cognitive theory known as ‘motivated reasoning,’ which suggests that rather than search rationally for information that either confirms or disconfirms a particular belief, people actually seek out information that confirms what they already believe. In fact, for the most part people completely ignore contrary information.” Even when hard evidence turns up, it can be discredited as a “conspiracy theory.”

All that is necessary for success of “false flag” or “black ops” events is for the government to have its story ready and to have a reliable and compliant media. Once an official story is in place, thought and investigation are precluded. Any formal inquiry that is convened serves to buttress the already provided explanation.

An explanation ready-at-hand is almost a give-away that an incident is a “black ops” event. Notice how quickly the U.S. government, allegedly so totally deceived by al Qaida, provided the explanation for 9/11. When President Kennedy was assassinated, the government produced the culprit immediately. The alleged culprit was conveniently shot inside a jail by a civilian before he could be questioned. But the official story was ready, and it held.

Professors Manwell and Hoffman’s research resonates with me. I remember reading in my graduate studies that the Czarist secret police set off bombs in order to create excuses to arrest their targets. My inclination was to dismiss the accounts as anti-Czarist propaganda by pro-communist historians. It was only later when Robert Conquest confirmed to me that this was indeed the practice of the Czarist secret police that the scales fell from my eyes.

Former CIA official Philip Giraldi in his article, “The Rogue Nation,” makes it clear that the U.S. government has a hegemonic agenda that it is pursuing without congressional or public awareness. The agenda unfolds piecemeal as a response to “terrorism,” and the big picture is not understood by the public or by most in Congress. Giraldi protests that the agenda is illegal under both U.S. and international law, but that the illegality of the agenda does not serve as a barrier. Only a naif could believe that such a government would not employ “false flag” operations that advance the agenda.

The U.S. population, it seems, is comprised of naifs whose lack of comprehension is bringing ruin to other lands.

The scheduled start of drilling this month by China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) in Iran’s South Pars gas field could be both a harbinger and explanation of much wider geopolitical developments.

First of all, the $5 billion project – signed last year after years of foot dragging by western energy giants Total and Shell under the shadow of US-led sanctions – reveals the main arterial system for future world energy supply and demand.

Critics have long suspected that the real reason for US and other western military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan is to control the Central Asian energy corridor. So far, the focus seems to be mainly on oil. For example, there have been claims that a planned oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea via Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea is the main prize behind the US’s seemingly futile military campaign in those countries.

But what the CNPC-Iranian partnership shows is that natural gas is the bigger prize that will be pivotal to the world economy, and specifically the dual flow of this fuel westwards and eastwards from Central Asia to Europe and China.

Michael Economides, editor of the Huston-based Energy Tribune, is one of a growing number of industry observers who is convinced that natural gas will supplant oil as the primary energy source, not only in the coming decades but over the next several centuries.

He points to the recent forecast by the International Energy Agency (IEA), based in Paris, which has dramatically revised its estimates of recoverable global natural gas reserves by 100 per cent. Economides ascribes this huge upgrade to rapid technological improvements in tapping hitherto inaccessible gas fields. He says that the IEA estimates of natural gas amount to 300 years of supply at current world demand. “If one only just fantasises any future contributions from the orders-of-magnitude larger resource in the form of natural gas hydrates, it is easy to see how natural gas is almost certainly to evolve into the premier fuel of the world economy,” he adds.

The rising importance of natural gas as an energy source has been steady and inexorable over many years. Between 1973 and 2007, oil’s contribution to world energy supply dropped from 46.1 per cent to 34.0 per cent, with the increasing use of natural gas accounting for that decline, according to the IEA. Other sources, such as the US-based Energy Information Administration (EIA), predict that global natural gas consumption will treble between 1980 and 2030, by which date it will mostly likely become the primary energy source of choice for industrial and public needs.

There are sound scientific reasons why natural gas (methane) is becoming the kingpin of fossil fuels. Firstly, it has a much greater calorific value than either oil or coal. That is, more heat is produced per unit of fuel. Secondly, it is a cleaner fuel, emitting 30 per cent less carbon dioxide when burned compared with oil and 45 per cent less compared with coal. Thirdly, gas is more efficient for transport, both as a raw material in compressed form along land-based pipelines, and as a fuel to drive transport.

All energy industry agencies recognize that far and above the premier sources of future natural gas are the Middle East and Eurasia, including Russia. The US-based EIA puts the natural gas reserves in these regions as nine and seven times those of North America’s total – the latter itself being one of the world’s top sources for that fuel.

Within the Middle East, Iran is the undisputed top holder of gas reserves. Its South Pars gas field is the world’s largest. If converted to barrel-of-oil equivalents, Iran’s South Pars would dwarf the reserves of Saudi Arabia’s giant Ghawar oilfield. The latter is the world’s largest oilfield and since it came into operation in 1948, Ghawar has effectively been the world’s beating heart for raw energy supply. In the soon-to-come era of natural gas dominance over oil, Iran will oust Saudi Arabia as the world’s beating heart for energy.

Both Europe and China stand to be arterial routes for Iranian and Central Asian gas generally. Already, the infrastructure is shaping up to reflect this. The Nabucco pipeline is planned to supply gas from Iran (and Azerbaijan) via Turkey and Bulgaria all the way to Western Europe (signaling an end to Russian dominance). Iran also exports gas via pipelines separately to Turkey and Armenia and it is also following up export deals with other Gulf countries, including the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Another major arterial route is the so-called peace pipeline from Iran to Pakistan and on to India, through which Iran will export this fuel to two of the region’s most populous countries. But perhaps the most tantalizing prospect for Iran is the 1,865-kilometre pipeline that supplies natural gas from Turkmenistan through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan into China and is due to operate at full capacity in 2012. Turkmenistan shares a 300-kilometre border with Iran to its south and already has a gas export deal with Tehran. If the Iranian-Chinese South Pars gas field development can be incorporated into the above transnational pipelines that would confirm Iran as the beating heart of a world economy in which gas is the primary energy source. This is amplified further by rapidly growing demand for gas by China which the EIA predicts could be dependent on imports for over a third of its natural gas consumption by 2030.

In this context of a major realignment in the world’s energy economy – one where there will be a continuing diminished role for the US – Washington’s blustering rhetoric about democracy and peace and war on terror or alleged Iranian nuclear weapons can be seen as a desperate attempt to conceal its fear that it stands to be a big loser. Encircling Iran with wars and threatening gas supplies to possibly the world’s top future gas customer – China – is the real deal. US actions are more accurately seen as putting a knife to the energy arteries of a world economy that it will no longer be able to dominate.

A further twist in this tale is the position of Russia. With its own vast reserves of natural gas, it can be seen as a competitor to Iran. Arguably less well positioned than Iran to supply both Europe and China, Russia is nevertheless a major player and has been assiduously courting China with an export deal since 2006. However, as Economides observes, “negotiations between the two countries have been on and off and, especially, the pipeline construction has been painfully slow”.

But Russia’s ambitions to expand its natural gas exports may explain why it has shown itself to be such a mercurial ally to Iran. Moscow’s ambivalent position towards US-led sanctions against Iran, suggests that Russia has its own agenda for hampering the Islamic republic as a regional energy rival.

Days after our tough talking Vice President Joe Biden returned from his trip to Israel with a handful of broken glass, the Obama administration announced that it has blocked delivery of armaments slated for delivery to the state of Israel.  This announcement brought cheers and jeers from opposite ends of the political spectrum while leaving those in the middle, well…perplexed.

The diplomatic theatre going on between Israel and the Obama administration has everybody fooled.  But this entire political circus is purely for public consumption.  The short-term goal is to create the illusion that there is a riff between the two nations, while the larger scheme is intended to give Israel complete inculpability when the U.S. finally decides to strike Iran.  The move yesterday by the Obama administration to divert delivery of 387 bunker-busters from the state of Israel to the island of Diego Garcia is just another slight-of-hand maneuver in the shell game that is being played out in the days leading up to the inevitable attack on the Islamic state.

Quoting from a Thursday article in the World Tribune “In January 2010, the administration agreed to an Israeli request to double the amount of U.S. military stockpiles to $800 million. Officials said the bunker-busters as well as Patriot missile interceptors were included in the agreement.” Now, are we expected to believe that it was Israel’s announcement to construct new illegal settlements in disputed East Jerusalem that has compelled the administration to go back on its promise?  Give me a break!  Is Israel’s expansionist campaign something new?  They’ve never stopped building.  They’ve never stopped destroying.  They’ve never stopped killing.  They have been engaged in an ongoing military adventure that has violated the human rights and cost thousands of Palestinian lives for as long as this writer has been alive.

The whole staged crisis between the U.S. and Israel is to secure delivery of those weapons to a more strategic location.  That’s always been the plan.  If not, why would they even put those munitions into transit at all?  It’s obvious that a direct delivery of those weapons to Diego Garcia would be just too obvious.  But by creating the illusion that those weapons were intended on being delivered to Israel, the contrived “last-minute decision” to divert them to housing on Diego Garcia appears to be merely an innocuous logistics decision.  But it’s anything but innocuous.  When you realize the strategic significance of this move it makes the reality of the world crisis we are now facing even that more ominous.  Diego Garcia is a U.S. air and naval stronghold in the Indian Ocean.  It is a giant, sprawling military complex that was solely responsible for launching air strikes against Iraq during Operation Desert Storm.  More recently, coalition aircraft at Diego Garcia dropped more ordnance on Taliban and Al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan than any other unit during the war on terror.  This is not a place where bombs go to sit in storage.  This is a place they go before they’re launched.

Delivering the bunker-busters to Israel would have been a major strategic blunder.   It would have made Israel appear even that more threatening and lend credibility to both nations’ critics who have been saying all along that there is no clear distinction between Israel and the United States. It would have created a larger crisis throughout the world and lend justification for Iran and its allies to fortify their borders against a well-armed Israel.  The United States and Israel are very conscious of this; and that is why they unilaterally played this out the way they did.  This strategy to make Israel look like an estranged child from its parent gives them complete deniability once the bombs start dropping.  They believe that this staged feud between Israel and the U.S. will put the kibosh on any allegations that the two are working in concert.  But behind the scenes, they hope to provoke Iran into a retaliatory strike on Israel in order to lend justification for their involvement and compel the American people to come to their defense.

But still, many are buying into this illusion that was created to keep one guessing about the true nature of relations between Israel and the Obama administration.  The whole scenario is being played on the American people like a Hollywood script.  It reminds me of the scene from Chinatown when Private Detective J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is slapping around Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) trying to get her to confess what her relationship is to the daughter of millionaire Noah Cross (John Huston).

Evelyn: She’s my daughter.
[Gittes slaps Evelyn]
Gittes: I want the truth!
Evelyn:  She’s my sister…
[slap]
Evelyn:  She’s my daughter…
[slap]
Evelyn:  My sister, my daughter.
[More slaps]
Gittes:  I said I want the truth!
Evelyn:   She’s my sister AND my daughter!

Such is the game being played on us concerning Obama, his motivations and his true relationship with Israel.  He’s a Muslim… He’s a Jew…  He’s black… He’s white… He’s for Israel…He’s against Israel. It’s all drama, intended on keeping the audience confused and deceived as they try to follow a plot as convoluted as one you’re likely to find in the pages of a Raymond Chandler novel.

This whole mystery centered on Obama has been going on from the day he became a strong contender for the Presidency and cumulated during his 2009 Middle Eastern trips to three “so-called” Islamic countries.  This was proof positive to some that he was acting on behalf of the Muslims.  Actually, the opposite was true.  Just look at the three countries he visited during that trip: Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Now why in the world would Obama choose these, and only these three destinations on his Middle Eastern trip?  Surely, the people from war torn regions of Palestine, Iraq and certain African regions would like to hear words of comfort and compassion from a fellow Muslim.  But his mission was not to reach out to defeated Muslims, his was to act as Israel’s envoy to repair relations with a nation it depends upon for trade and to solidify alliances with nations they are hoping to depend upon when they go to war against Iran.

For instance, Israel and Turkey have had a long history of favorable relations.  Turkey is NOT an Arab nation.  It is European.  Though ninety plus percent of the population is Islamic, the government is secular and pseudo-democratic based on European/Anglo principles and intent on smashing any attempt by the religious leaders to usurp their power.  Turkey is an applicant to the European Union.  Turkey is a member nation of NATO.  Turkey is not anti-Christian.  Turkey has a significant Jewish demographic.  Turkey is an ally to the United States and enjoyed a great relationship with Israel until the Israeli Offensive on Gaza.  This is where relations strained and that is why Obama was sent there.  Israel depends on Turkey.  They have been long trading partners both in goods and services as well as weapons and technology.  They had plans and hope to continue plans to build a pipeline to supply oil, natural gas, water, electricity and fiber optic cables to Israel.  Israel’s ability to keep free-trade open with Turkey and secure that pipeline is vital to Israel’s existence.

How about Saudi Arabia and Egypt?  Both countries are western client states and some kind of alliance with them (or at least their neutrality)  is vital once war is finally declared upon Iran.  Both Saudi Arabia and Egypt are Sunni while Iran is Shiite—they are sworn enemies.  Both countries are strong trading partners with the United States and though they do not engage in diplomatic relations with Israel, the United States acts as a conduit to do their bidding.

The strained relations between Israel and the Arab nations is another reason why Israel needs to stay out of the picture when the Iranian conflict gets underway.  If Israel makes a first strike against Iran, or if the United States and Israel strike together, that could cause a severe breach in cooperation from the Arab nations in the region.

Remember what happened shortly after Obama’s Middle-Eastern trip and his so-called “reaching out” to the Muslim world?  A little more than a month later his puppet masters George Soros and Zbigniew Brzenzski attempted to overthrow the Iranian government by way of a “color revolution.”  Now we see yet another hand reaching out in an assumed gesture of peace.  I guess we’ll just have to wait to see how long it takes before that hand turns into a fist…and comes down smacking hard!

by FreeSociety, Docudharma
I am totally shocked by what has happened.

It had appeared that Dennis Kucinich had Obama worried, rather than the other way around.

It appeared with Obama and Kucinich “discussing” Health Care on Air Force 1 no less, that the opportunity existed where Obama might possibly consider making a concession or two, just to secure Kucinich’s vote.

Suddenly, and sadly, Kucinich just gave in, and got absolutely nothing back in return.

While DKos, MoveOn.bored, and mainstream Democrats all publically threatened to oppose Kucinich and get their pay back and revenge on him, it is pretty well established that Kucinich is in a district which knows him well, and that re-elects him every two years — whether or not he faces a Primary challenge. I can’t see Kucinich caving just on something like empty “reelection” bluffs, hot air, and threats of this nature. Kucinich has been through all of that many times before and won the War.

Remember Dennis Kucinich is a guy who stared down the Bank Monopoly in Ohio before and won. He even faced an assassination attempt before and won.  This is a man not easily shaken. So why would Kucinich suddenly be so easily intimidated now?

What threat did Obama issue?  Black Ops? Did his unconstitutional wiretapping program create or fabricate some embarrassing family story or personal smear?  Did Obama threaten Elizabeth Kucinich? Did Obama and Pelosi move to take away Kucinich’s SubCommittee Chair (something they’d never do to Joe Lieberman)? Was Dennis Kucinich’s life directly threatened? FreeSociety :: Why Did Kucinich Cave In To Obama?

In his announcement today, Kucinich said absolutely nothing to endorse the bill on any its so-called “merits”. He even condemned the bill, even as he stated simultaneously that he must submit a yes vote. This makes no sense. Clearly, some unusual, and possibly criminal personal threat was made here.

Dennis Kucinich never just backs down and says “oh well, never mind”…
It is also clear that the U.S. Senate had, and still has, 50 Senators willing to vote in favor of a public option, if the House sends it to them (which Nancy Pelosi has assured they won’t at Obama’s own request).

If the resistence and pressure from the Left had refused to back down, perhaps some improvements could’ve been made to an otherwise terribly bad, awful bill.

But nothing has changed. As Michael Moore pointed out, there is no true “ban on preexisting conditions”. That talking-point is a complete falsehood.  First of all, the clause does not even kick in for 4 whole years, so the Insurance Companies can deny care and eligibility all that they want to for the next 4 whole years.  Secondly, when the clause does kick in, it only imposes just a very small penalty (a fine) if they reject people. So for an Insurance Company, it is going to be much cheaper for them to pay a simple $5000 fine, then it would ever be to cover a citizen with a health problem of any consequence (especially someone with a past cancer diagnosis).  So, this is all just a big lie. There is no “ban on pre-existing conditions”.

The other completely false talking point is that” “the bill will get 30 million new people covered.”  It does nothing of the kind.  All the bill does is to mandate that people write horribly expensive checks to the Insurance Monopolies, and become their victims and slaves — with no choices and no options.  But no actual “care” is ever assured. The Insurance Companies set all the rules, and can continue to deny treatments, deny surgeries, deny tests, and even terminate your entire policy (for a small fine) if you get too expensive.

So the entire rationale for this bill that is being made by Obama, the Democrats in Congress, and even so-called “progressive” groups like MoveOn.dog   is a lie.

It’s a LIE folks. But, unlike others who don’t even bother to read the fine print, Dennis Kucinich knows all of this.

So why did he cave?
Militant Note: He caved because they offered him something.  He’s been in the business too long to have any real dirt, but they probably offered him something else.  What could it be?  Who knows?  Watch for an appointment of one of his kids or grandkids to a high position in govenrment or one of the pharma companies that pushing this health care bill.  Or watch for Kucinitch to suddenly get the Senatorial urge at the next go-round and win the nomination for it.  Maybe Biden is out the door in 2012 and Obama plans to put Big K in his place?  Who knows, but watch for it.  It won’t come tomorrow or next week, but it will come in the next year – after everyone’s forgotten about Dennis’ sudden change of heart on health care screwjobs reform.

by Steve Watson

A Democratic Congressman has stated that he will refuse to vote yes on the pending health care reform bill, declaring that the legislation represents a vastly bloated giveaway to insurance companies and big pharma.

Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) asserts that the Senate bill bankrolls the very companies that president Obama says are taking advantage of the American people.

“We’ve paid the ransom, but at the end of the day the insurance companies are still holding the hostages,’’ Lynch said in an interview with The Boston Globe yesterday.

“This is a very good bill for insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies. It might be good for Nebraska, I don’t know. Or Florida residents. But it’s not good for the average American, and it’s not good for my district. Or for Massachusetts.’’ Lynch added.

“The insurers still rule,” Lynch said. “Were just pumping subsidies into the current system, but that won’t drive down costs.”

The Congressman says he also opposes the way in which the House Democrats intend to pass the legislation, bypassing a traditional vote and opting for the so called Slaughter rule of “Deem and Pass”.

Lynch, has said that the parliamentary move would be “disingenuous” and would fundamentally harm the credibility of Congress.

He added that the move “may be unconstitutional.”

“It’s a stretch,” Lynch said. “I think it hurts our credibility to try to pull a prank like that. We should stand up and tell voters where we stand.”

As we reported yesterday, president Obama glossed over questions surrounding the process, stating “I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about what the procedural rules are in the House or the Senate.”

Unlike his Democratic colleague from Ohio, Dennis Kucinich, Lynch has stuck to his guns despite a meeting with Obama.

“The president was courteous and generous with his time,” Lynch said. “The president asked me if there was anything he could do that I should tell him, and I told him, ‘I have been over this bill and I still wasn’t satisfied.’ ”

“I continue to be opposed to the bill,” he said.

Kucinich had said he opposed the bill, citing the exact same points as Lynch, however, a 40 minute jaunt on board Airforce One with the president, in addition to veiled threats directed his way by Obama swayed Kucinich to change his mind.

“There doesn’t appear to be any way to put reform into this bill,” Lynch said. “It’s a very poor bill.”

“If they put reform back in the health reform bill, that would change my position,” he told reporters yesterday.

When reminded yesterday of Senator Ted Kennedy’s advice to not let the “perfect be the enemy of the good,’’ Lynch told reporters: “There’s a difference between compromise and surrender, right? And this is a complete surrender of all the things that people thought were important to health care reform.’’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team, as well as Obama himself are intensely lobbying individual representatives before Sunday’s anticipated vote as they seek to win the 216 votes needed to pass the measure. According to reports, the Democrats are still six votes short.

Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU.

The notification came in a letter dated January 6, 2004, addressed by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and CIA Director George J. Tenet. The ACLU described it as a fax sent by David Addington, then-counsel to former vice president Dick Cheney.

In the message, the officials denied the bipartisan commission’s request to question terrorist detainees, informing its two senior-most members that doing so would “cross” a “line” and obstruct the administration’s ability to protect the nation.

“In response to the Commission’s expansive requests for access to secrets, the executive branch has provided such access in full cooperation,” the letter read. “There is, however, a line that the Commission should not cross — the line separating the Commission’s proper inquiry into the September 11, 2001 attacks from interference with the Government’s ability to safeguard the national security, including protection of Americans from future terrorist attacks.”

The 9/11 Commission, officially called the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, was formed by President Bush in November of 2002 “to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks” and to offer recommendations for preventing future attacks.

Read the rest at this link.

Washington is out of control. It does as it likes, without restraint. It spends American money and American lives to fight remote wars for which it cannot provide a plausible reason. It determines what our children will be taught, who we can hire and fire, to whom we can sell our houses, whether we can defend ourselves, even what names we can call each other. The feds read our email and track the web sites we visit, make us hop around barefoot in airports at the command of surly unaccountable rentacops. They search us at random in train stations without even a pretense of probable cause. We have no influence over them, no way of resisting.

Except, perhaps, to ignore them.

Washington has learned to insulate itself from interference by the population. Huge impenetrable bureaucracies beyond public control make regulations that amount to laws, spending God knows how much money to do God knows what for the benefit of the interest groups that run the government. These bureaucrats cannot be fired and usually cannot be named. Congress, like the bureaucracies, serves not the United States but the big lobbies. The looters of Wall Street wreck the lives of millions, and get millions in bonuses for doing it instead of the end of a rope.

Further, the federal government simply doesn’t work. It is clogged up, constipated, gridlocked, using antiquated technology to do badly things it ought to do and things it oughtn’t. In large part this is because federal hiring rests on the desires of racist and feminist lobbies instead of suitability for the work to be done. Whole departments—HUD, Education—do much harm and little good. IRS is ruthless, incompetent, and unaccountable, the tax laws burdensome and crafted for the benefit of special interests and of Washington. I can change my address with my bank online in five minutes and know that it has been done; IRS requires a paper form and six to eight weeks to effect the change, and you don’t know whether it has been done. The goons of TSA leer at our daughters with their porno=scanners. The VA can easily take six months to provide a veteran’s records, when it could be done online in five seconds. The Pentagon spends a trillion a year, precious little of which has anything to do with defending America, but can’t defeat a small group of badly outnumbered men armed with rifles and RPGs; the intelligence agencies were unable to warn them of the prospect.

The government doesn’t work. It is broken. It can’t be fixed. It can’t be fixed because only those within it could, and their interest lies in not fixing it.

The only remedy short of armed rebellion is civil disobedience at the level of the states. Clear constitutional justification for refusal to obey Washington lies in the Tenth Amendment:

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

A great many states now begin to do a great many things counter to Washington’s wishes. I think it wise to keep resistance within the framework of the Constitution, but the entire question comes down to a blunt truth: No law extends beyond the lawmaker’s power to enforce it. Congress can pass a law against gravitation, but can’t prevent things from falling when released from a height. The federal government made alcohol illegal but, in the face of massive public disregard, couldn’t make it stick.

What happens if, as may happen, California legalizes marijuana—not just for contrived medical purposes, but legalizes it, period? I search in vain for the Marijuana Clause in the Constitution. The feds do not have the manpower to enforce federal laws within California without the help of the police of California. What happens if a state passes a law saying that its citizens cannot be forced to buy health insurance? What can Washington do? It can persecute individuals, but a state, or thirty states, are another thing. The FBI can arrest any one person, but it cannot arrest Wyoming.

Much depends on how sick people really are of the ever-growing thicket of laws, regulation, imposed political correctness, surveillance, and having to live according to the dictates of remote elites with whom they have nothing in common.

At bottom, Washington’s power is economic.  The feds rely for control on taxing money from the states and giving some of it back in exchange for obedience. They cannot arrest Wyoming, but they can deny it federal highway funds. This technique provides de facto control over everything from kindergarten to MIT.

Now, if Idaho passes a law (I’m making this up) saying that no restrictions on the ownership of guns will be enforced within the state, Washington might choose discretion over valor and ignore it. Legalizing marijuana, however, or refusing to accept compulsory medical care, would be a direct if not necessarily intentional challenge to the power of the central government. The feds could not afford to let either of these things slide. The danger of the precedent to the grip of the governing classes would be too great. A deadly serious confrontation would ensue.

What could, or would, the federal government do in response to defiance? Send the Marines to occupy Sacramento? Or the FBI to arrest Arnold and the legislature of California?

Or cut off California’s financial water? No bailout for the state’s tottering economy, no more fat subsidies to the universities, and so on?

The question is how ugly might things get. Washington may be able to make the states back down. It may not. The peril for the feds is that it might occur to the states that, while they get their money from Washington, Washington gets its money from the states. The central government depends absolutely on the states, whereas the states would get along swimmingly without the current central government.

How tired are Americans of a dysfunctional, oppressive Washington, unconcerned for its citizens, unaccountable and tending fast toward the totalitarian, that sprawls across the continent like an armed leech of malign intent? That is the question. The first time a populous states says “No,” if such a state ever does, we will get the answer. The United States has been free, prosperous, and reasonably well governed for a long time. It no longer is. Things go downward, within and without.

Nothing lasts, change comes, and things break. We shall see. Give it five years.

As they whip for the health care bill, Democratic leaders pack a mean one-two punch of populist rhetoric and the hefty financial backing of the drug industry.

In the heated yearlong health fight, President Obama has often accused his opponents of willful misrepresentation, even as he and his allies have endlessly repeated the biggest whopper of all — that the bill would rein in the special interests.

The Obama team regularly dismisses opponents as industry lackeys. The Democratic National Committee blasted out e-mails this week warning that “for every member of Congress, there are eight anti-reform lobbyists swarming Capitol Hill” and “Congress is under attack from insurance lobbyists.”

But drug industry lobbyists, according to Politico, spent the weekend “huddled with Democratic staffers” who needed the drug lobby to “sign off” on proposals before moving ahead. Meanwhile, we learn that the drug lobby is buying millions of dollars of ads in 43 districts where a Democratic candidate stands to suffer for supporting the bill. The doctors’ lobby and the hospitals’ lobby are also on board with the Senate bill.

So the battle at this point is not reformers versus industry, as Obama would have you believe. Rather, it is a battle between most of the health care industry and the insurance companies.

(And the insurers are not opposed to the whole package. On the bill’s central planks — limits on price discrimination, outlawing exclusions for pre-existing conditions, a mandate that employers insure their workers and a mandate that everyone hold insurance — insurers are on board. They object mostly that the penalty is too small for violating the individual mandate.)

Pharmaceuticals are a far more entrenched special interest than the insurers.

Of all the single-industry lobbies in Washington, the largest is the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America. PhRMA spent $26.2 million on lobbying last year — that’s nearly three times as much as the insurance lobby, America’s Health Insurance Plans, which spent $8.9 million.

If you include individual companies’ lobbying, pharmaceuticals blow away the competition, beating all other industries by 50 percent, according to data at the Center for Responsive Politics.

Given this Big Pharma clout, it’s unsurprising that the bill Obama’s whipping for — Senate bill — has nearly everything the drug companies wanted: prohibiting reimportation of drugs, preserving Medicare’s overpayment for drugs, lengthy exclusivity for biotech drugs, a mandate that states subsidize drugs under Medicaid, hundreds of billions in subsidies for drugs, and more.

PhRMA chief Billy Tauzin, who was vilified by Obama on the campaign trail, worked out much of this sweetheart deal in a West Wing meeting with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Tauzin visited the White House at least 11 times. He left his imprint so deeply on the current bill that it should probably be called BillyCare rather than ObamaCare.

Recall that pharmaceutical executives and political action committees dug deep trying to save the flailing candidacy of Democrat Martha Coakley in Massachusetts — a race that was explicitly a referendum on health care. She took in more than 10 times as much drug company cash as Republican Scott Brown.

This week, PhRMA, through a front group called Americans for Stable Quality Care, is rolling out millions of dollars in advertisements for the Democrats’ jury-rigged package consisting of the BillyCare bill and some as-yet-undetermined “budget reconciliation” measure. The ads reportedly will target wavering Democrats.

But supporters of BillyCare will continue to attack opponents as shills for insurance companies, demonizing, as Obama puts it, “those who profit from the status quo.”

Let’s look at those profits. Drug makers’ combined profit margin last year was 22.2 percent, compared with insurers’ 4.4 percent. Drug maker Merck’s net income, $12.9 billion, exceeds that of the 10 largest insurers combined.

Pfizer, which netted $8.64 billion last year, gave its CEO, Jeff Kindler, a 12.5 percent salary increase, bringing his compensation to $14.9 million. Pfizer, in a federal filing, attributed the raise partly to Kindler’s work “developing and advancing U.S. and global public policies that serve the overall interests of our Company,” including his “constructive participation in the U.S. legislative process.” Kindler contributed the maximum to Obama’s election, and Obama raised more money from the drug industry than any candidate in history.

On this bill, Republicans side with insurers, and Democrats mostly side with the richer and more powerful drug makers. The difference: Republicans didn’t cut a backroom deal with the insurers. Obama will still play the populist card, even as the drug lobby is his ace in the hole.

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