Patriot Network domain captured; a krazy mixed-up knockoff group!

Your PN has after many years of waiting obtained the patriotnetwork.net web address. Traffic from it will now be redirected to our site, PatriotNetwork.info, which remains unchanged. This will help spread our name abroad and reach more people oppressed by tax goons. (You are doing everything you can toward that end, right?)

Hey, just for fun I tried searching our organization's name to see what other groups are using it. There are always a few, and certainly before the days of internet they had no way of knowing of our multi-decade career in choosing their name. So far it's been no problem -- they've been in agreement with our worldview. Currently by sheer tragicomic irony, though, the first Google result (we are the second) is this Bizarro thing:

http://www.truepat.org/

Its founders are an evolutionist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBx2Y5HhplI

.....who wants to tax the rich more, and a Chinese Bonesman who was a Slick Willy speechwriter!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Liu

This is unbelievable. Here's the book the group's based on:

http://www.newamerica.net/publications/books/true_patriot/

By an eerie coincidence, three of the reviewers (Stern, Lakoff and Stein) have Irish names, just like the abovementioned Mr. Hanauer. Anybody have a guess as to what that might signify? The fourth reviewer is Howard Dean, disgusting 2004 candidate for the Dummacrat presidential nomination.

Wish I had time to check out the owners of those Irish names (one appears to be a unionist, hmm) but no doubt there would be more irony and laffs beyond them, rabbit-trail-wise.

It's no laughing matter, though, the power these high-rollers have to force-feed their Kool-Aid to the sheeple. They're hijacking the word "patriot" with buzz like "moral code" and "civic virtue and responsibility that fueled the country’s founders".... and starting off by claiming that these things have been "hijacked" by the "right". Yeah, sure, guys -- and "equality" is what the Founding Fathers were really after, as per one of your tenets. Sure.

All of which is further evidence that we in your PN are not only the true true Patriot Network but are on the side of true freedom and true decency and true healthy order. Accept no substitutes for bedrock principles!

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If not a smoking gun, the smell of gunpowder re Obirth

https://theobamahustle.wordpress.com/
BREAKING NEWS – Hawaii state registrar Alvin Onaka
has publicly certified to AZ SOS Ken Bennett
that Barack Obama’s HI birth certificate is legally non-valid
and the White House image is a forgery

A credible- and professional-looking account, that. Wikipedia attests that Anaka is the official in question and (what!?) adds "Onaka gained national attention as the person who, along with Hawaii Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino,[3] verified Barack Obama's original birth records in Hawaii, and as the one who certified the birth certificate[4] released by the Obama campaign in 2008 and the 2011 certificate released by the White House." Now he's turning state's evidence?

It's great and exciting, especially if it actually gets somewhere.... but what can ever be done about people referring to Obummer as President even as they're concluding an earthshaking article demonstrating that he's a fake. a fraud, a ringer, a shyster? As he does at the above link.

Is there an emoticon for "shrug shoulders, slap forehead" anywhere?

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Fuel insanity makes for freakish headlines

I deeply resent -- well, I personally hate -- this ethanol bunk at the gas station.

It wasn't enough that they System had played 42 different mind games on us over gasoline, from the highly questionable shortages of the 1970s (higher prices, color flags indicated supply in front of each gas station, people shooting each other while waiting in the line burning gas by the hour) to the so-called war on terror (supposedly fought for to protect us, but roundly defended in terms of prices at the gas pump) to today's gas price nightmares.

That wasn't enough. They had to suddenly determine that what we'd been missing all this time was some nice Mazola oil in the tank.

There was lots of yap for a few years. Then suddenly gas was ubiquitously combined with Mazola. Surely it should be optional in this freest country in the world whether or not to buy the mixture, but whoa, how could I forget, we're not free anymore -- we had to give up our freedoms to save our freedoms! So now a mixture of gasoline and Mazola is what you get at the pump.

If you don't like having every decision made by Big Mother, you have as much choice to opt out as you do from having fluoride in your tap water. Wait, I stand corrected -- we still have freedom of choice with both! What am I thinking -- you can sure as shootin' have real gasoline sans Mazola and all the fluoride-free water you want..... if you're willing, respectively, to pay 25c more per gallon of gas and spend a few hundred on a water filtration system. Filtering H2O takes time, mind you, so there will be a slight delay of two hours for every pint you plan to drink.

Fidel Castro called it a sin to use food for fuel. This was deemed a crazy extremist view because he's a brutal communist dictator, right? Actually, I fear for any society that doesn't have his common sense on this one issue......

http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/hemet/hemet-headlines-index/20121228-hemet-cooking-grease-theft-suspects-caught.ece
Fast-food owner nabs McBiofuel Bandit suspects

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Ever checked Simon Black out?

We ameriKans lead such cushy, pampered lies, I mean lives, that it's possible to lean on TV for everything you know about the rest of the world and die blissfully unaware you've been massively deceived. Here are windows on the many matters abroad that put ameriKa to shame:

http://lewrockwell.com/black-s/black-s146.html
Tell Me Again… Which of These Nations Is Communist?

There is not the slightest shred of an excuse for the gigantically bloated bureaucratization and institutionalization of ameriKan life. This always makes life grossly more expensive and ever less human, more Orwellian and Kafkaesque. And as bad as things are now, what happens when you let as set of tax "cuts" expire and massively increase them at the same time? That must be why the fedgov is buying nine figures worth of bullets. We have met the enemy, and they think it's us.

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Brits don't want TV fool Piers Morgan back

http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=152116
Title: Brits Petition Government: We Don’t Want Piers Morgan Back

This doesn't happen everyday, does it? A media darling is in deep yogurt for possible involvement in this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Morgan#Phone_hacking_allegations

Note mention of Hugh Grant and Charlotte Church.....Let's not forget to check the Lew Rockwell site every day: 

http://lewrockwell.com/mcmaken/mcmaken148.html
I Hate Piers Morgan, But He Shouldn't Be Deported

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Ray Stevens still at it

http://conservativevideos.com/2012/12/ray-stevens-politically-incorrect-celebration-of-christmas/
Ray Stevens’ Politically Incorrect Celebration of Christmas

I love good music, especially if it's politically incorrect, but truthfully a good sermon sounds as good to my ears as a Beethoven symphony. Here's one from before the election that will remain relevant for a long, LONG time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvRvBqx1uAI
America will Burn in One Hour

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Crazy economic politics bedevil France too

A tragicomic case of Obama-style bait-and-switch politics has unearthed:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324640104578161043120422214.html
Paris in the Dark Ages

So -- how does it actually work? The politicians promise us the world when running for office, and then when they get elected they skid to a halt or 180-degree turn. Do you think they never mean a word of their pretty rhetoric, or they set up in the halls of power and are bought off -- or maybe coerced? A combination of all three, no doubt.

Behold, just as the Beltway BS artists always have the same solution to things -- bleeding taxpayers yet more for than they are already, and hrrumphing yet more about the supposed need for citizens to tighten their belts and do without. No doubt the intended psychological effect is an echo of the noble, heroic epoch known as World War II.

Oh, how people sacrificed for "our boys" back then! Rations, millions of families put on hold, whole industries turned over to production of planes and tanks for the good of all humankind. WW2 was actually an orgy of lying propaganda by shills, but since it's still glorified today (hooray for us, we killed six million evil Germans) it makes a terrifically handy paradigm of what working people must go through for the rest of time until the politicians find their copy of the Constitution (or the Fed goes bankrupt).

It's not for nothing that demons like Hillary channel FDR and company..... the article is about France's Environmental and Energy Minister Delphine Batho. Isn't it amazing how few Frenchmen are in on the running of France anymore? We suffered through five insufferable years with its Hungarianoid president Sarkozy, and he was succeeded by a fellow liberal wacko named Hollande, both bearing alien place names.

Ms Batho looks like a berserk nut in her curiously staged photo at the above link. The name appears as alien to the French tongue as they get; do you suppose she's related to this monster?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory

 Pardon my cynicism......

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Christmas defenders bloom better this year

A happy pseudo-Nativity season to you all!

Christmas haters and destroyers are a serious problem for civilization. The record would appear to show that people innately need religion. Every study done seems to indicate that having some improves life satisfaction and even physical health. In any case, it would be easier to change the law of gravity than to stamp this instinct out of people. Even atheists are taking to defending the holiday and its traditions against its numerous assailants.

For some reason, it seems there is more defending going on this year than usual. It's partly no doubt because the greatest musical radio station of our time, WMUU, has left the airwaves, leaving in its wake an odd mixture of truth and neocon nonsense called Conservative Talk 94.5. Two much-worshiped semi-hemi-conservative Jews -- Dennis Prager and Michael Medved -- take up most of its airtime. They never stop stumping for their own tribe, but have done surprisingly good work defending Christmas too. Whether this is how the station is going to be or it's merely the "bait" part before a "switch" phase takes up the rest of time, it's an unexpected nicety.

Other examples are all around us. There are even three Christmas-friendly links at the militantly atheist FreedomsPhoenix.com just now. Titles below -- visit the page for their actual links and much, much more.

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Entertainment: Christmas Music Streaming
THREE KINGS & DICTATORSHIP AT CHRISTMAS
12 Gold Bugs Bring Christmas Cheer

Bizarre tax and economic news from Argentina

Argentina is blessed with absolutely wonderful people but hateful politicians. La Fernández has an abysmal reputation as did her widower before her. Whatever is needed, these demons do the exact opposite with remarkable consistency -- why does that sound familiar?

It would be quite easy to imagine her and her cronies staging this revolt for their own selfish, cynical, tyrannical gain.

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/20403806/looting-leaves-2-dead-in-argentina#axzz2Fj7d1xjg
2 dead as supermarket looting spreads in Argentina


"Thousands of people marched in front of the presidential palace earlier this week demanding the elimination of income tax, which many lower-paid workers never had to pay before but must now after receiving a salary hike earlier this year." Oh, boy, talk about a shell game!

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A logic festival on gun issues

We mentioned "values clarification" the other day. Here's a great example of what valid applications could be made of that weaponized buzz.

http://ericpetersautos.com/2012/12/19/if-guns-are-bad/
If Guns Are “Bad”….

See, that's all it takes to defuse and defang any "politically correct" argumentation. Explain the fallacies, dissect the lies, and kick the stinking mess out the door.

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The shooting, the shooting

Basic facts -- obvious, elementary facts:

All of these shocking crises are engineered by the system. Why would they do that? The same reason they throw these so-called wars: trouble and chaos are the perfect cover for pushing the "new" world order forward.

So many perpetrators ending the spectacle in suicides, from Jonestown to Newtown, is too many. Heck, THREE would have been too many, much less 34 years' worth!

There are always multiple shooters beyond those alleged -- partly, I have no doubt, to ensure the patsy does get suicided.

There is often.... or always.... ample evidence of sophisticated conspiracy, as in CIA, Mossad or what have you. Police arriving late -- instant destruction of destruction of evidence -- no investigation of obvious basics.

To the extent that these incidents are what they appear to be -- lone nuts going berserk (even if by threes, as with Columbine) -- "Psych meds linked to 90% of school shootings" 
http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/psych-meds-linked-to-90-of-school-shootings/#SVXigioG4L19SLMj.99

But where would that strange pattern come from? Who's been doping children, especially boys guilty of being boyish, for something like 25 years? Parents, schools and doctors. It was actually 25 years ago that I saw this in a Catholic school in upper-crust Summit, NJ -- the kid had nothing wrong with him, but the truth is no defense.

Then there's the other half of the one-two punch -- the way eggheads are classifying everybody as insane until proven otherwise, and patterning children in deep disturbance from a tender age:

Congress Should be Looking at The "VALUES CLARIFICATION" CURRICULA IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS THEMSELVES Before Blaming Guns for School Shootings
http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=152013

I can't believe this "values clarification" garbage is still going on. The smarminess and schoolmarminess of the very phrase makes me want to throw up. Sure, who appointed you school mercenaries to shape anybody's attitudes, much less to depress youth with dismal, fateful subjects lots of grownups aren't ready for? Tell me that junk isn't straight from hell, will you!

Here's another buzzterm of the type that becomes ubiquitous as soon as it's hatched:

Here Come the Grief Counselors, Over the Hill, Pouring Into Newtown, Connecticut
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/rappoport3.1.1.html

.............Speaking of conspiracies, not conspiracy THEORIES, how about Boy George Bush's performance from the 54:45 point on?

Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq war
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yowqX2ngHl4

Isn't it nice to know that once upon a time the Smirking Chimp himself was quite sane on this topic? Too bad it was (clearly) on the campaign trail. How stupid were voters to listen to a word he said at that time after his imp of a father gave us that "no new taxes" line of pure bull?

Bush-41 even warned ameriKa about trying to give the whole Middle East a makeover, but that didn't faze Juniorkins, for the astonishing simple reason that Junior wasn't paid by the Israel lobby to listen to him.

HuffPost actually posted another good article:

11 Secret Documents Americans Deserve to See
http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/11-secret-documents-americans-deserve-to-see-121210?news=846439

Don't miss the one comment added -- "There are Lincoln documents that are still classified. About a decade ago, a congressional commission voted to keep them classified for yet another 50 years." The stuff goes back at least that far.... well, Freemasonry hijacked George Washington a century or more earlier.

What I happen to be hearing:

America will Burn in One Hour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvRvBqx1uAI

Whoa, "Laura Ingraham could be on the CIA payroll"? Pastor, are you forgetting that since the wars turned out the be the catastrophes we all warned, she and her fellow neocon media darlings are now acting as if they don't exist? I'm proud to say that I happened to be hearing her hateful, bestial show at the exact moment of her epiphany, since which she's become recognizably human -- but wait till the next RepubliCON president wants to throw another war for Israel. She'll be first in line to lick the dirt out from between his toes.

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Basic logic and the shootings

There's a very serious problem with basic (!) logic in our society today. Little to none exists.

OK, you still don't want to believe the government (or its hidden handlers) would be so evil as to perpetrate 9/11. But there's ample proof, especially if motive and the perps' prior record and psychology count for anything. Behold, amerika -- the story as matter-of-factly admitted in one of the topmost encyclopedias in the world today:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pnac

Note the subheadings -- "Calls for regime change in Iraq during Clinton years" (who asked THEM?), "Excessive focus on military strategies, neglect of diplomatic strategies" (what DO you know), "Inexperienced in realities of war" (bunch of chickenhawks) and the immortally foul "New Pearl Harbor":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pnac#.22New_Pearl_Harbor.22

There have been many calls for a smoking gun re 9/11, with many insanely fake ones offered. Don't forget that Boy George Bush told the nation that we couldn't afford to wait for the "smoking gun" to appear, e.g. in the form of a "mushroom cloud", woo woo. Translation: We don't need any stinking proof thta those people over there are planning to whack us-- we're ameriKa!" We're ameriKa, so we don't have to play by any rules. Our only rule is in fact play it all by ear at our whim.

We don't have to worry who gets hurt as we work out our manufactured demons on total strangers who never actually did us any harm We have an agenda -- and if the Project for a New American Century is any indication, that agenda is brutal world dictatorship!

See? Reason and even common sense is totally extinct with this crowd. Even now, when the whole thing's a total disaster, there's not a shred of regret or remorse from them. Even when people like Bushy or Tony Bliar admit it's a bust, they just coast to glory on waves of fine-sounding rhetoric! The sheeple, too, are proudly stupid and heartless.

There are not only smoking guns over 9/11 such as the obvious facts about it that TV newscreatures pretend every day on camera they don't see, but what better loaded and pointed gun could one ask to find  in the runup to 9/11? Come on, if we really want to know who did it, let's just stick to the same basic, airtight rules by which any criminal inquiry operates.

Cut to the latest mini-9/11 in the series -- the Newtown, Conn., school massacre. Any fool should know the politicians themselves (with help fropm CIA, Mossad etc.) should be the prime suspects. Sirhan didn't kill Bobby Kennedy, we're now told. "Martin Luther King's" family freely admits that James Earl Ray didn't kill JFK. "Cui bono" -- who benefits from the  lies, coverups and acts of skullduggery?

The above parties tell us in a hundred ways a day that they live to vilify and dispossess us. Here's merely the latest admission that the ruling power mafia lives from crisis to crisis, reaping selfish political advances from (for instance) theschool shootings:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/14/dem-lawmaker-get-gun-control-obama-must-exploit-sh/
Democratic lawmaker: To get gun control, Obama must ‘exploit’ shooting

See? They want to totally destroy whatever wealth and power remains to us, the people. (Or as most people would cobble it together, to "we,the people.) To do it they have to take our guns away. The politicians' knee-jerk response is not to give the psychiatric drug industry a long-overdue investigation but to EXPLOIT these shooting victims' families's suffering! How much more crude, oafish, vicious, un-American, and Neanderthal can it get? How much more purely vulgar?

Quite honestly, I think when any politician says anything so subhuman as Nadler just did, he should be sent straight to the federal gulag, just like they're doing to us now so freely .... over nothing.

Bush-41 wanted a "new world order" and blabbed it in numerous public speeches, as have numerous other top-name public figures. Bubbie Nadler takes the exact same tack with the present scene. But tomorrow will be just another day in war-torn ameriKa. None of the right heads will roll, if any do at all. The chattering classes will go on with the charade that this is life. These patterns from hell wom't be mentioned at even 1% of ameriKan breakfast tables -- certainly not substantively.

The system feeds on fear, and deliberately causes ever more mass fear psychoses. It farms our minds, sprinkling whatever precise recipe of fertilizer is needed for what they want to grow in them. We, the people, are the glorious tapeworm's host bodies -- that's all, period. We aren't even human in their eyes. The real question is whether they even notice our existence at all, or are they more like some virus tooling around inside a person's system -- oblivious to its shape, cerebration, needs or wishes?

Viruses are extremely intelligent in working our chemistry, temperature etc. too. You know, bringing us Change -- and exploiting it to the max.

Logic -- more of it at the basic preschool level could save us big time. But for most people it's too much like work and too little resembles Katie Couric interviewing Britney Spears.

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Pink Floyd, cont.

Oddly enough, the lead story at anunews.net the day after our Roger Waters link is

http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=28764
Hey You

........bringing recognition to the Floyd's fatefully apt political subthemes. Thhat link too features the group's bassist Roger Waters -- but doesn't mention his speech at the UN?! All the better if it means people are waking up to these currents and everything's coming together like the Beatles never chorded it.

Yeah, I remember the Hey You song from their 1979 album, The Wall. If you listen to any FM-style pop radio, and even if you don't, you've probably heard it to -- it sounds (like all their vocals) like a worn-out old duffer with iron-poor blood inveighing trendily (if logily) about the System in a stodgy tempo with accompaniment to match.

Hey, they sounded just like that when (in their twenties) they first hit the big time with their Dark Side of the Moon album, of which I was once an immense fan. Musical weltschmerz and burnout has always been the stock-in-trade of cosmically- or existentially- driven art, not least with English rockers. These Floyd albums are in fact laden with fateful commentary on the times and we must recognize it as an elephantine sort of cry against the soul-deadened empty-suit establishment which is so well-supported with public apathy -- or wild enthusiasm -- or the "quiet desperation" dolefully sung about on Dark Side (that paraphrasing Thoreau).

Since moving on from Dark Side their stuff hasn't meant a whole lot to me but am glad to see it getting recognition as protest music. Would like to think it has spent all these years provoking their fans to deep thought about our matrix, but fear it only inspires listeners to make Pink Floyd ever richer and smoke more dope. You know, and get more depressed.

Youtube has the complete Dark Side album in one video but it seems to start with a muttered expletive.

.........This just in from a reader:

Am just now catching up with your latest at ePC. And I see that Delaware's third largest source of revenue is seizing "unclaimed" private property. Whoa.

Here's another tidbit you may not know about the larcenous looters: some states seize the credit from store gift cards if they go unused for one year. So if Bob (stupidly) buys his brother Jack a $50 gift card from say Lowes for Christmas, and Jack loses it or forgets to use it in time, the state gets the money.

I don't care what anybody says, there is absolutely no way you could ever justify that logically, ethically, or morally.

Same with inheritance taxes, but everybody who's not a collectivist (you know -- all 27 of us) knows about that one already.

The default position is always that government cleans up, isn't it?

..........This from a fellow PN regular. Is Farrakhan crazy or merely "controversial," as truth haters would put it? Let us know if you find anything whatsoever to disagree with in it, please: Could you imagine any Beltway politician saying things in a speech? It's what we hire them to do -- sound the truth and fight for it where the battle is hottest, not run around the world forcing ameriKan "VALYOOZ" on it!

http://youtu.be/dzbVl_IYiWc
Louis Farrakhan On Ron Paul Exposing The Federal Reserve And International Bankers

Sometimes Farrakhan is indeed a hopeless nut. When he's good, he beats most other public figures in his honesty. I have no desire to promote anything Islamic or otherwise foreign to mainstream America, but truth is truth and ANYBODY who stands up for it so boldly as this gets my vote. Say, how 'bout this....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Farrakhan#Farrakhan_and_classical_music

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Staggering video: Pink Floyd bassist address UN re Palestine

Just think..... what life could have been like if rock talents had embraced reality instead of decadence and lostness since Elvis, with three generations of kids religiously aping them.

It is all over for Israeli power abuse and genocide if ROGER WATERS has the ear of the world's pooh-bahs.... speaking in such priceless, moving English..... no frills, no punch line, no puerile gestures of rebellion.... in a suit and tie, and looking quite comfortable with it.

I'm really, really aghast -- thrilled beyond words -- at the existence of this show and the crazy quietude with which Brasscheck served it up. Apparently it's just another day, another video to them? How is it possible? (Oh, that's right -- they're tribesmen themselves ;-)

THE WALL IS BREACHED.  /\/.\/\/.   torpenhow@charter.net

Subject: Some truth about Palestine

Date: 12/16/12 7:05:06 PM

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Pungent headlines at Freedom4um

Yes, that's its name, freedom4um.com. Samples, and all comments here are strictly personal opinions of the blogger:

Be Patriotic: Become a Secessionist

Aren't paradoxes of that nature irresistible? Article is a further exploration of Lincoln, Hamilton et al.

Truth About Antidepressants & Chemical Imbalance, Psychology

The awful truth here is that many of these name-recognition drugs bring absolutely no relief -- or as a brilliant radio commentator put it today on WORD 1330 AM, they're only benefiting the manufacturers and pushers. Oh, what a tragic mess we've made of ourselves if any significant slice of the population feels the need for them.

The Parents of Innocent Drone-Murdered Afghan children feel the Same Pain as the Parents of Those Murdered esterday. Think about it.

Well now, let's not go applying perspective or proportion to the "random" death phenomenon. Don't you know by now we're only supposed to live by feel, and let the military-industrial complex pick our feelings for us?

Confirmed: Adam Lanza Was On "Mood Stabilizing" Meds

Oh yes, minor detail. Not only do the drugs not help anybody's mindset, they turn people into Jack the Rippers right and left. Pity the society that's so good at putting a civilized facade on such barbarity towards self and others!

A witness tells WFSB-TV that a second man was taken out of the woods in handcuffs wearing a black jacket and camouflage pants and telling parents on the scene, “I did not do it.”

Two were seen leaving the building who were obviously in cahoots with the perp.
Who really killed the Connecticut children? Antidepressants, School Shooters, & Suicide (Video)

WHAT A COINCIDENCE-The RED HEADED GOOGLE EYED BATMAN KILLER, JAMES HOLMES is the SON of the key witness in the ROTHSCHILD LIBOR Banking Scandal

GEORGE BUSH, 88, PLEADS: LET ME DIE AT HOME!

Why should you have an easier death than the thousands of victims in the "war" on "terror" you are utlimately responsible for starting? You at least will have top-level medical care, because nobody's dropped bombs on any ameriKan hospitals. By the way, you are a despicable mass murderer.

Top 100 Cowbell Songs of All Time

Even that's a pretty complicated subject. What if a song is musically entrancing but lyrical dreck? The story of pop music per se..... I want my Seekers back!

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Enviro-ironies at blacklistednews.com

As I write, it so happens that the top story at that extremely jam-packed site is

Deutsche Bank Offices Raided in Carbon Tax Fraud
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20695042

........and the rest of the page -- the week's stories -- are about the wonders of renewable energy. Mostly. Such as:

Canwea president says prospect for wind energy in Canada are excellent

Rise in renewable energy will require more use of fossil fuels

Energy groups to Obama: Change in wind credit would boost investment

New York State Windpower: Enough Business/Government Cronyism

Rise in renewable energy will require more use of "fossil" fuels 

Oh, what to think? I urgently wish to place some hope in passive energy gathering. I'm not an environmentalist wacko but am bitterly concerned about what the laughably-misnamed fossil fuels, nuclear etc. are doing to us and the entire natural realm. But one hears numerous black marks against the  renewables: they're way too dependent on fickle weather conditions, they're not cost-effective, their power output is pitiful. Wind towers are extremely expensive and shocking owl-killers. I thought the idea was to save the environment?

The cost factor is where the stuff appears to me to fall to pieces once and for all. Solar cells reputedly need replacing every decade or two, maybe less. Making them (and disposing of them?) isn't exactly a green process -- in the age of Clinton I saw a column giving full particulars of the raw materials and smelly processes that went into their labor-intensive production at that time, etc.

How about those wind turbines -- how much do they cost? How much is their upkeep? How many people die erecting, maintaining or removing/replacing them? Will somebody please make a documentary on how they're made, from the mining or formulating of needed raw materials to the full production process to their transportation to the site, et al -- with a carbon footprint analysis for the whole scenario? How long is each supposed to last in our throwaway society? Eventually everything wears out and becomes junk.

These will be a gigantic form of litter: "The blades are usually colored white for daytime visibility by aircraft and range in length from 20 to 40 metres (66 to 130 ft) or more. The tubular steel towers range from 60 to 90 metres (200 to 300 ft) tall" (Wikipedia).

Energy production is a serious problem for humanity, and all other species of life are potential or actual "collateral damage". Surely the real solution is not more of the problem, but less consumption overall.  I'm trying to do my part -- only ran the heat about 30 days last winter, and have just turned it on for the first time since summer this week. Call me a slob if you like, but I find that a great deal of the cleaning that goes on in most households isn't strictly necessary. I never water the lawn -- it looks less classy than my neighbors who do, but I hope they don't find their town suddenly runs out of drinking water one fine day. We've spent at least a decade in a state of drought and haven't had a heavy, lengthy rain in a long, LONG time.

One thing for absolute certain is that politicians don't give a hoot about climate change, real or imagined. And their utopian "carbon credit" schemes (or similar) are nothing but further attempts at hoodooing us into handing more of our money, rights and well-being over to these shysters.

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Tom Sowell on tax reality

Good column because it will get people looking past the clichés, deeper into the real nature of things:
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell121212.php3#.UMpZs2_Ad8E
Taxing the Poor

I like this part -- have been thinking the same myself:
No wonder the Federal Reserve uses fancy words like "quantitative easing," instead of saying in plain English that they are essentially just printing more money.....
Really and truly -- of all our ranks in the truth movement -- well, the select few who read this blog compared to the colossally successful neocon- and dummacrat-oriented sites -- have a lot of you felt like throwing up at the very PHONINESS of such buzzphrases as "quantitative easing"? Ever? Talk to me -- have you? My sanity hinges on knowing that people still have their basic reflexes.

.........Here's a  creative, affective presentation of the Kennedy assassination file
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/assassination-studies-1/evidence-of-revision-film-1.html
Evidence of Revision: Film 1 -- The Assassinations of Kennedy and Oswald

Why does mere creativity and affectivity excite me when we need ever stronger smoking-gun facts? Because those things are what people live and feeeeeeel by, that's why. There may be exciting "new" facts in the second half or so -- didn't have time to view or hear the whole video.

.........Bonus video: An oracle on Republicans from Pastor Manning!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2MYIBPGiH0
A Snowball's Chance in Hell

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The weird news category -- and tax madness -- are in full bloom again

First, nuttynewstoday.com. This item is especially tragicomic

http://nuttyfacts.blogspot.com/2012/12/breyers-doesnt-make-ice-cream-anymore.html

.......when you contemplate one of the  totally artificial ingredients the writer randomly cites as replacements. Note the extreme irony of the first use listed for this one:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propylene_glycol

Namely as a "feedstock" --  not for farm animals much less humans but "for the production of unsaturated polyester resins". No doubt, those resins will be the most elegant nourished on the planet after eating this stuff -- but what's happening to the human diet meanwhile? This seems like a good tie to mention my favorite soft drink ingredient of all, via a can of orange pop from the dollar store -- "glycerol ester of wood rosin." Wonder why it isn't sold in spice shops? 

 

......I think we've heard the next two subjects before, but isn't it good to at least see them making news again -- the second via newsoftheweird.com:

http://www.nuttynewstoday.com/2012/12/526421-family-farms-threatened-by-democrats-new-death-tax/

526,421 family farms threatened by Democrat’s new death tax

As a service to taxpayers, the IRS's longtime policy is to pay tax refund claims promptly and only later to refer the refund files for possible audits and collection, in the event of overpayments or fraud. This policy, though, means that ordinary taxpayers are treated better than the nation's wounded warriors who file disability claims with the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA's assumption seems to be that wounded veterans are cheating -- and thus most veterans receive at least five evaluations, and each one reviewed over a several-year period, before full benefits can be awarded. (Even though some temporary financial relief is available before final determination, veterans complain that the amount is almost never enough for complicated rehabilitation programs and other support.) [Washington Post, 11-11-2012]

One more for the road from NuttyNewsToday:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/632281-family-farms-threatened-by-new-death-tax/article/2515658#.UMeRqKViZjY

The Continuing Decline of American Manufacturing: A Drug Enforcement Administration agent told the Associated Press in October that factories in Mexico have recently been supplying American markets with especially potent and inexpensive methamphetamine. "These are sophisticated, high-tech (businesses) ... that are operating with extreme precision," said agent Jim Shroba. The 90 percent-pure product offers "a faster, more intense and longer-lasting high." Many Americans, meanwhile, continue to make small batches of inferior meth in 2-liter soda bottles. [Associated Press via Knoxville News Sentinel, 10-11-2012] 

In case you missed it previously, here's a good, healthy link on politics and economics. In Columbia there stands a great organization called the South Carolina Policy Council. Dr. Clarkson informed me our mutual friend Dr. Henry Jordan was instrumental in getting it going. Here is its president at work pressing for resolution of at least some of the mammoth corruption bedeviling the Palmetto State: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24r898Zvk28&feature=youtu.be 

Ashley Landess Testifies before House GOP Ethics Study Committee (Nov. 8, 2012)

Spread the word about the SCPC and help drum up support for it..... but always remember that your Patriot Network is your first loyalty re donations, please. Urgently needed!

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Good things / small packages

Things are looking up!

They've JAILED the bankers. There is great relief and genuine, well-founded hope for truly positive and desirable change among the people, because they see their politicians actually serving them, not other fatcats. Everywhere there is excitement that the country is getting beyond the lies and betrayals the rest of the "free world" lives by (not to mention the fear of what other countries may think of one's leaders' supposed radicalism) and beginning to actually do some living again as a stable, viable healthy society.

In Iceland, that is.

http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=151768
Guest Post: The Icelandic Success Story
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-08/guest-post-icelandic-success-story

........Here is another way cool page:

http://webabuser.blogspot.com/2011/10/history-of-banksterism-48-bc-to-present.html 
The History of Banksterism: 48 B.C. to Present Day

It includes a painting of Christ flailing the moneychangers out of the temple -- an image seen more and more in the blogosphere today. Rightly so!

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More on the the politicians' "job creation" mind game

Mind Games. It was the title of a clangorously ironic song by John Lennon years ago. Looking back on its lyric from today's remote world, it's surprising how apt it is to now:

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Mind-Games-lyrics-John-Lennon/8BC6A933577F16B148256BCA00080390

Politicians work via mind games -- that's for sure. And for way too long, they've been dinning in our ears the big fat LIE that government or ANYBODY needs to "create" jobs in a viable economy. It's one of the many things that was never mentioned or even imagined in the America we left behind us, but that people live by today.

One of the big, painfully obvious reasons the economy is wrecked is that politicians and their cronies in mega-business have destroyed the dollar. I hardly think that when these same parties talk of giving us new jobs there's an iota of sincerity in it. Certainly Ron Paul has never indulged in this sickeningly smarmy cant.

It is imperative for us the people to realize that as soon as bureaucrats start talking "job creation" as a political goal, the game is already lost. JOBS HAPPEN NATURALLY in the course of natural economics, or THEY DON'T HAPPEN. When they don't, it's a virtually sure thing it's due to manmade plagues such as socialism and runaway union power abuse.

Strangely, I feel like a voice crying in the wilderness on this. Politicians and even my fellow (?) conservatives will talk about "job creation", which major party will do better at it etc, but I don't recall hearing one commentator shoot down the very concept. It's nice to be vindicated by a headline like this when it finally happens:

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/73-new-jobs-created-last-5-months-are-government
73% of New Jobs Created in Last 5 Months Are in Government

So -- what's so bad about that as long as jobs are coming available? Nothing -- for a few minutes. Sure, what's wrong with one more little case of.... government spending?

Lennon recorded Mind Games in 1973. By 1980 he was dead, and don't you doubt for a minute the System murdered him. Maybe he had realized he'd been its too-willing tool and was planning to expose it. Little hints keep coming forth that he was increasingly seeing through it.

There's always the chance he was a mind-control subject, a cultural Manchurian candidate who maybe came to. Michael Jackson would be a parallel case:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Don%27t_Care_About_Us
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/usshowbiz/article-2042867/Michael-Jackson-death-trial-La-Toya-blasts-doctor-Conrad-Murray-Twitter-court.html

Readers' comments below this piece score LaToya for seeking publicity, but I've got news for you, "big conspiracy" is the last phrase entertainment stars ever voluntarily utter.

Rocking that boat can be very bad for business.  

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How could DeMint do it?

The U.S. Senate is one of the most noxious entities on the face of the earth. The House is bad enough, but for some reason Senators are often far more leftist than Representatives.

When a recognizable human being is elected to the U.S. Senate it's so rare you almost feel like, well, writing your Congressman to urge that the date become a national annual observance. One was never sure what to make of Jim DeMint. He was so well-acclaimed, yet seemed such a cream puff of niceness. And he has turned out to be a conservatiberal, sometimes aggravating us beyond words, but often meriting a B where an A was desperately needed.

I've finally gotten used to the idea that we're better with him than without him, and now he's quitting Washington to head the equally iffy Heritage Foundation. I remember when Heritage came about -- it was touted as a return to political sanity, but has had more than a streak of neoconservatism about it since before that word was common. It could use some strong, unequivocal paleo-conservative leadership, and it's too bad Jim isn't made of such stuff -- because you can't live on crème de menthe and gefiltefish.

Truly awful is his choice of successor -- because, as this message from Talbert Black of Palmetto Liberty PAC points out, the latter endorsed the troublesome Speaker of the SC House of Reps:

Hi nelson,
Short and to the point... Tim Scott endorsed Bobby Harrell just before this year's elections.
Thought you might want to know.
Here is the video.  http://youtu.be/RpPdY6w94_c
Enjoy!
Talbert Black Jr.

Now here's an article one is tempted to call GREAT. It's epic in sweep and uses past insanities and crimes to throw light on today's tinsely glories:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/12338-trial-run-for-interventionism
Spanish-American War: Trial Run for Interventionism

It's a great privilege to often have business at PN headquarters. One of the many reasons is the subscriptions the boss has got. The New American is about the best on her coffee table. Every single issue brings a feast of information, history, and opinion in four colors on glossy paper, all done brilliantly (except for its too-frequent neocon spasms). Get to know the New American. Urge your local library to subscribe so you won't have to. I believe if three people request it do so, libraries are duty bound to oblige. Well, I heard it somewhere.

The New American is magnificently conservative if you can get past the fact that it carefully avoids the biggest subject on the socio-political map. And in that, it's not alone.

To close off our day's exploration, I thought was preciously ironic that Charter.net's homepage news feed took this picture of decadent pop star Avril Lavigne and titled it Celebs with crazy appearance fees.



Get it -- crazy appearance fees?

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Here's a great commentary on a major development that may be the beginning of the end for ameriKa's Middle Eastern headache.

Major.   /\/.\/\/.   torpenhow@charter.net


The End of Jewish Power 
Israel suffered a humiliating defeat at The UN yesterday. The nations of the world stood up and said NO to the Jewish state - NO to Israeli occupation, NO to Israeli human rights abuse, NO to Jewish racism. In effect, they stood up and confessed to serious Zio-fatigue. Despite Jewish success in constantly reminding Europeans of their tormented past, Europe yesterday delivered itself of its guilt and Israel's European allies such as Germany, France, Britain and Italy also delivered a clear messages to Israel - they are right out of patience. The rest of the world is at last finding the courage to realise that it can well do without a Jewish state that is nothing but trouble and a grave threat to world peace. 
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/the-end-of-jewish-power-1.html

No conspiracy? Explain this FANTASTIC video

People who say there is no conspiracy going on are invited to read the dictionary definition of it. Those still insisting we are not suffering from a network of conspiracies in high places may find this show of interest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3JLKw0q4kY
Conspiracy Theory Rock By Robert Smigel

.......and I'd just love to hear from them about it. The genius, I said genius, about this production is

#1 its artistic near-perfection -- helps put across a point the media-addicted might otherwise miss; also makes it downright fun to watch as a performance (under the circumstances)

#2 its biting, bitter message, which is the whole "elite" power mafia in a nutshell, dressed up as entertainment for the scores of millions of people out there incapable of digesting anything else!

#3 its outright sarcasm in taking vulgar, antiseptic mass cultural tokens from past generations and and using them to promote..... not some flashy or trashy product, the purpose for which such themes were originally created in the soulless halls of big business..... but THE TRUTH, the real world in which we lead out our delusional quasi-lives to a bebop beat.

Pierce the matrix! Try the link on your friends! A heck of a lot of heard work and deep thought into it.

........Speaking of media, my new passion (especially since Coast to Coast AM has become so useless on weeknights) is Rense Radio. Tune on in right now -- that's right, whatever hour of the day or night you're reading this!

http://www.renseradio.com/

The material this morning as I'm writing at 2:11 is shocking. The thuggery that goes on in government and the propaganda matrix is mind-blowing.

.........More art. Time for more brilliant, piercing artistic display!
http://www.easycartsecure.com/CounterPunch/images/023_lg.jpg
Book publishing is teetering on the brink. Isn't it just amazing how often great, courageous, brainy books keep getting produced on real-world crises -- you know, like having a two-legged, long-legged mack-disaster like Obummer in the White House?

Ah, art -- how about the liveliest art next, le cinéma? Here's a masterpiece of it they won't be showing at Cannes this year. Warning: it is in danger of seriously changing you, but you'll be delighted it did! I just can't believe that viewing and sharing it is now so simple. Can't believe it no way, nohow.
Defamation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=z58WY3jRuLc&feature=endscreen

Great quote via PN egroup today:
“Genocide involves the attempt to achieve the disappearance of a group by whatever means. It does not have to be violent, it could be a combination of policies that would lead to a certain group dying out.”
Malcolm Fraser (Prime Minister of Australia 1975-1983)
Important news on a much-overlooked subject:
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/12/04/will-e15-fuel-damage-your-car/ 
Will E15 fuel damage your car?

I don't know anybody who actually wants Mazola in their gas tank. Do you? Everybody I know
opposes ethanol or any other kind of food-into-fuel scheme.

"Freest country in the world?"

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Who are the real warmongers -- historically speaking

Once upon a time, the idea was.... peace. Peace was the norm. Nobody actually wanted war, so it appeared -- aside from dirty communists half a world away. America was the land of peace and freedom, opportunity and goodness in every way.

Wellll, except for the Vietnam experience, a bloody, stinking mess that actually blighted multiple countries from 1955 to 1975. OK, when it finally ended (having roared in the background of my entire conscious life up til then) we knew peace again, of a type -- for a while. Till a family named Bush rose to luster and fame.

Who is it that actually wants war? Somebody obviously does. Looking back before the peace movement of the 1960s, one would like to posit that both major US political parties wanted peace, and that the only reason for the endless bombing and killing was that they had to finish Vietnam in order to allow it and ourselves to return to peace and normalcy. But you know, it's awfully hard to imagine it that way. Long before I stumbled into the real world through the back exit of a country library in Mendham, NJ, I looked at the situation in Washington and realized what I saw was a bunch of blah gray-haired bureaucrat politician suits with their bellies hanging over their belts, purporting to save the world from itself -- on the backs of ameriKan youth suffering and dying on far-flung battlefields. Thank God, my elders were passable conservatives but nobody's fool when it came to politicians at large. That's probably where I inherited my healthy jaundice toward the breed.

So, who does that leave for peace? The antiwar movement that raged under this rubric during and slightly after Vietnam helped cure ameriKa of any interest in war.... until, of course, they grew up and took over politics themselves. Then suddenly, they were the establishment -- and shockingly bloodthirsty and bellicose.  I fear their passions were as much a generalized revolt against their parents as a desire to improve anything.

Slick Willie was a classic radical-chic hippie back in the day; I've seen more revolting pics of him then than  this

http://v2-forum.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/1490/ppuser/146

Who in their right mind would have expected such slobs to take over the The Natural State, Arkansas, much less the "free world", much less keep one of both of themselves at the levers of  power down to this day -- 500 years' worth of corruption packed into three decades? I don't know if they were ever peaceniks, but they were put into the White House by an entire former generation of them, and they've proved among the most violent rulers in history.

The "two major parties" are permanently bellicose and virtually identical. Who does that leave for peace? Very, very few people today, in politics or out, will personally express total opposition to war on principle. Who does that leave for peace? The answer may shock you.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/why-conservatives-hate-war/
Why Conservatives Hate War

There's a title that in four words cancels out easily 60-75% of people calling themselves conservative today bby sheer force of logic. While we're gorging ourselves on reality, is this story of interest at all?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9653497/British-have-invaded-nine-out-of-ten-countries-so-look-out-Luxembourg.html
British have invaded nine out of ten countries - so look out Luxembourg

I want to love Englishness as much as anybody but it gets awfully hard sometimes. Don't tell anybody but I found a video of Mary Poppins in a junkshop and am hooked all over again. You'd never know from it that the society of nannies, pearlies, bobbies and 4:00 tea had committed forcible entry and much, much worse on most of humanity.

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Is the ameriKan Hitler Youth on the march?

Something strange this way comes. A trusted source sent an unattributed email article. It goes like this:

Would you have believed it possible!!!  MARTIAL LAW ??????  

 

Homeland Security Graduates First Corps Of Obama’s Brown Shirts – Homeland Youth

Monday, October 15, 2012 18:51

October 7, 2012. Vicksburg. The federal government calls them FEMA Corps. But they conjure up memories of the Hitler Youth of 1930’s Germany. Regardless of their name, the Dept of Homeland Security has just graduated its first class of 231 Homeland Youth. Kids, aged 18-24 and recruited from the President’s AmeriCorp volunteers, they represent the first wave of DHS’s youth corps, designed specifically to create a full time, paid, standing army of FEMA Youth across the country.

On September 13, 2012, the Dept of Homeland Security graduated its first class of FEMA Corps youth, aka the Homeland Youth. Image courtesy of DHS.gov.

On September 13, 2012, the Department of Homeland Security graduated its first class of FEMA Corps first-responders. While the idea of having a volunteer force of tens of thousands of volunteers scattered across the country to aid in times of natural disasters sounds great, the details and timing of this new government army is somewhat curious, if not disturbing.

DHS raising an armed army

The first problem one finds with this ‘new army’ is the fact that they are mere children. Yes, 18 is generally the legal age a person can sign a contract, join the military or be tried as an adult. But ask any parent – an 18, 20 or even a 24 year-old is still a naïve, readily-influenced kid.

The second problem with this announcement and program is its timing. Over the past two years, President Obama has signed a number of Executive Orders suspending all civil and Constitutional rights and turning over management of an America under Martial Law to FEMA. Also in that time, domestic federal agencies under DHS, including FEMA, have ordered billions of rounds of ammunition as well as the corresponding firearms. Admittedly, these new weapons and ammunition aren’t to be used in some far-off war or to fight forest fires in California, but right here on the streets of America.

Strange Armored Fighting Vehicles

Individuals around the US have begun reporting the site of strange, new, heavily-armed FEMA fighting vehicles. What would a disaster relief agency like FEMA need with 2,500 brand new GLS armored fighting vehicles? According to the agency’s own mandate, as well as President Obama’s recent Executive Order, the answer is ‘population control’ during a time of Martial Law.

One set of images made available by Rense.com shows trailer after trailer carrying these new DHS and FEMA armored fighting vehicles, complete with machine gun slots. They’re labeled with the usual backward American flag and the title, ‘Homeland Security’. Below that and the DHS logo, it also reads, ‘Immigration & Customs Enforcement’. Joining those markings, the black vehicles with white lettering also display ‘POLICE/RESCUE’ on one side and ‘Special Response Team’ on the other.

DHS & FEMA armed fighting vehicles. Images courtesy of Rense.com.

FEMA Corps

FEMA Deputy Administrator Rich Serino gave the keynote address at the ‘Induction Ceremony’ for the inaugural class of FEMA Corps members. According to the DHS website, ‘Corps members assist with disaster preparedness, response, and recovery activities, providing support in areas ranging from working directly with disaster survivors to supporting disaster recovering centers to sharing valuable disaster preparedness and mitigation information with the public.’

Serino describes what the first FEMA Corps class has accomplished so far, as well as where they’ll be going next:

‘Yesterday, we welcomed 231 energetic members into the first ever FEMA Corps class. The members just finished off their first month of training with our partners at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and are one step closer to working in the field on disaster response and recovery. They will now head to FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness to spend the next two weeks training in their FEMA position-specific roles. Once they complete both the CNCS and FEMA training, these 231 dedicated FEMA Corps members will be qualified to work in one of a variety of disaster related roles, ranging from Community Relations to Disaster Recovery Center support.’

A standing army

Unlike most local disaster response teams who are volunteers, training periodically and only showing up when there’s a disaster, the FEMA Corps will be a paid, full time, standing army of government youth. FEMA Deputy Administrator Sarino goes on to explain, ‘The new members, who range in age from 18-24 years old, will contribute to a dedicated, trained, and reliable disaster workforce by working full-time for ten months on federal disaster response and recovery efforts.’

In closing his announcement of the first graduating class of FEMA Corps Youth, Sarino describes his and the agency’s vision of the future, one where ‘FEMA Corps sets the foundation for a new generation of emergency managers’.

DHS arms itself

As we detailed in the August 28 Whiteout Press article ‘History of DHS Ammunition Purchases’, federal emergency management agencies are looking more and more like a military army every day.

The federal government’s procurement website actually lists DHS’ requests for bids to supply it with ammunition and military weaponry. All of the orders listed in the above article, including the orders for hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition, are publicly available at http://www.fbo.gov/.

One look at a chart of DHS ammunition purchases over the past decade reveals a drastic spike in orders of bullets recently, totaling in the billions of rounds. Other charts available online show a similar drastic spike in the purchases of accompanying weaponry by the Department of Homeland Security.

What is the US federal government preparing for? And why does it feel it needs an army of brainwashed youth, millions of guns, thousands of armored fighting vehicles and literally billions of rounds of ammunition, just to provide relief to the American people during a natural disaster? Any historian will tell you it sounds more like the arming of the Hitler Youth than an army of first responders fighting forest fires and hurricanes.

Unsourced sensations are almost always fake. This page

http://factcheck.org/2012/11/did-fema-create-a-youth-army/

........purports to debunk the story at hand, but notice how slippery it is in its haste to zap any notion of conspiracy. Angles:

* Wikipedia has only one mention of a FEMA Corps:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=fema+corps&title=Special%3ASearch
It is normally berserk in its promotion of government activity. Did its contributors really just not notice this strange development?

* The above factcheck link touts the Corps as a project of AmeriCorps. What's that, you ask? I must say it bears an uncomfortable resemblance to something like a US fedgov Hitler Youth without guns.

http://www.americorps.gov/

* What do these all these fedgov-regimented youth do, exactly? "Once they complete both the CNCS and FEMA training," says DHS.gov, "these 231 dedicated FEMA Corps members will be qualified to work in one of a variety of disaster related roles, ranging from Community Relations to Disaster Recovery Center support."

Community -- there's that lovely, and preciously vague, word again. This picture fine and dandy but if we must have these immense, sinister, unaccountable bureaucracies, what this citizen would like to have most from them is footage of them teaching these kiddies the Bill of Rights, or maybe the perpetrators of DHS' Hurricane Katrina "relief" efforts on trial -- you know, the honchos who commanded those young agents to go house to house confiscating weapons etc.

New Orleans had enough of a disaster thanks to the Army Corps of Engineers' strategic multi-decade neglect of the levees holding the Gulf of Mexico back from town (not from the hurricane!). The fedgov's relief campaign was almost as bad! How do such crimes against humanity just sink beneath the waves of forgetfulness, leaving groups like FEMA to ravage further areas in the throes of catastrophe -- or to ignore them as alleged in the case of Hurricane Sandy just a few weeks ago? 


We certainly should be concerned about the formation of any kind of youth corps by the fedgov. Haven't they suffered enough sitting 12 years in soul-killing public schoolrooms and battered by moral/cultural decadence literally from birth?

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China has a surprise for you; Diane Sawyer has one heck of a report

How distressing that a communist country will soon have more Christians in it than the Untied States does. How great for China that it will claim this honor. 

http://beforeitsnews.com/christian-news/2012/12/china-to-have-largest-christian-population-2459662.html
China To Have Largest Christian Population

It was reported years ago that the People's Republic was 1/10 Christian -- anything's possible! A childhood buddy of mine was missionary there for eight years.

.......Let me know what you make of this business:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/919621-tablets-and-smartphones-are-killing-the-pc-industry
Tablets And Smartphones Are Killing The PC Industry

Brother R.M.'s tablet saved the day yesterday at PN -- the laptop on which I'd stored all my stuff died, and that's when I found out, when I got up to speak!

.......Something we all need to know -- because one never knows when it will be needed.
http://www.heartrescuenow.com/

.......And now, everything scary you've ever heard about safe deposit boxes is here in one video
http://www.panamalaw.org/getting_out_of_dodge_12-02-12.html#
US Safe Deposit Boxes Getting Looted By the State Government as Unclaimed Assets

But wait -- it's worse that I and probably anybody expected. Banks are simply prostrate as state governments raid people's family keepsakes and retirement assets. Such "unclaimed" property is the State of Delaware's third largest source of revenue.

That revelation occurs at about 2:35 on and they keep coming from then on. By the way this is a "mainstream" news story hosted by Diane Sawyer. It shows actual footage of statements by perpetrators and victims.

Say, Diane -- how about giving us such real-life substance the rest of the time?

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Article jackpot at Lew Rockwell site

It's been a great day featuring a thriving first-Saturday PN meeting in Greer, SC. Such good people... and a few great characters!

I reported on this blog there as usual, and am going to use it today to hail a very special website we all should keep in the forefront of our minds: lewrockwell.com. Llewelyn (that's Welsh) H. Rockwell Jr. is one of the most renowned figures in the whole history of capital-L Libertarianism. His blog -- grossly too small a word for it in this case -- is one of the spots in cyberspace where the air is freshest, the company the most genteel and the IQs the most stunning.

All that may make them sound very cerebral and egghead-like, but what they mostly do is rally facts in support of common sense. Who would have though that that would ever become a revolutionary act, but it surely has. Where the magic comes in is where they being up great facts from history and current news along the way.... and it's also in in their eloquence. Yes, simply their eloquence - of a freely readable, drinkable kind.

Eloquence applied to common sense -- novel comcept, that! The best writers of course amuse as thy inform or galvanize. Here are just the uppermost ten headlines showing at the moment on Lew's homepage. Note the presence of actual good news and optimism amongst the fateful jeremiads, too.

Jump on in, the water's fine!

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Machiavelli and the State The libertarian response. Article by Lew Rockwell.

Martian Boondoggles Separate NASA and State. says Gary North.

The Age of Ron Paul? Jay Taylor interviews Lew Rockwell on the coming bull market in freedom.

Smack Down! Tom Woods obliterates big-government conservatives.

Don't Take Sides in Other People's Fights Your conscience will thank you, says Mark Crovelli.

Group Guilt Is Bad, Pre-Guilt Is Even Worse Eric Peters on the eradication of our rights.

How Do the Chinese View the Gold Market? You'd better know, says Jeff Clark.

Home Invasion Realities Be ready to protect yourself in a very tricky situation.

Are Your Opinions Real? Or corn-pone? Article by Mark Twain.

The Dollar Decline It catches up with the US Mint. Article by Bob Adelmann.