Obama’s very good at letting you know that he didn’t know

So then why is he the president? Obama’s very good at letting you know that he didn’t know The president who doesn’t know; the government that can’t be managed A self-serving politician’s first instinct when scandal arises is to assert he knew nothing about what was going on. Barack Obama is about as self-serving as they come, so it’s no surprise he’s making an art form out of the claim that he hears about these things on the news, just as we’re hearing about them. This is usually where someone like me, who has experience as the CEO of a large company, will point out that an effective executive has to be aware of what’s going on in his own organization. After all, if anything is your job, it’s to make sure things are running smoothly and scandalous activities do not occur. If you can’t do that, exactly how good a leader are we supposed to think you are? And when people like me say this, political types like David Axelrod will respond that the federal government is simply too vast for any one man to know everything that’s happening in it. Well, one cheer for Mr. Axelrod for speaking that truth. But since he has, let’s be honest about what a problem this really is, and how people like himself and Barack Obama have helped to create the problem. The day Obama took office, I knew his executive leadership strategy was trouble. Ideally, an effective executive should have maybe three or four high-level people reporting to him directly. The most exceptionally talented CEOs might be able to handle seven direct reports. When Obama entered the White House, with no executive management experience of any kind, he not only found himself with 15 cabinet-level secretaries and another eight cabinet-level officers, but his decision to appoint a variety of “czars” and other high-level political and administrative personnel left him with 65 people reporting to him directly. Sixty-five! And remember, this was a man who had never managed anything in his life. It was a recipe for utter dysfunction, and that is exactly how things have turned out. One of the stories we hear about the IRS scandal is that Obama’s White House Counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, knew about the scandal for weeks and didn’t bother to inform the president. This, we’re told, is supposed to be some sort of defense of Obama. See? He didn’t know! As is so often the case in these situations, it’s hard to see if Ruemmler’s claim is believable or just an attempt to protect the boss. The same can be said for Lois Lerner’s invocation of the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer questions from Congress on the matter. Is she protecting herself, or protecting Obama? But either way, the world of political consultants and pundits might see Obama’s ignorance as a point in his defense, but the world that understands real leadership certainly does not. The federal government is without question a massive organization that’s very difficult to manage effectively, but a truly skilled executive would at least put in place a leadership structure that would ensure policies are understood and accountability to those policies is enforced. That could be done, if the right person were doing it. Barack Obama is not the right person, and his lack of management skill and experience is only one reason. An even bigger reason is that a government responsive and accountable to the people is not his agenda. Ideologically, he seeks a massive government that excels at self-perpetuation, which is why spying on the news media, harassing conservative political groups and denying the truth about terrorist attacks is in its nature. Obama may or may not have directed these behaviors, but everyone in the government knows these behaviors serve the interests of the boss, who is all about keeping the government big and powerful and shielded from accountability. Especially at the top. He didn’t know. He heard it on the news, just like you did. There’s your leader, my fellow Americans. It’s not his fault because it can’t be his fault, because he can’t be expected to manage the government effectively. So then why is he the president? Obviously not so we can get top-quality executive leadership out of the White House. But when things go wrong – and a lot is going wrong these days – he’s very good at letting you know that he didn’t know.

Deception is epidemic in America.

Deception is epidemic in America. Have you noticed that deception has become an epidemic in America? Deception is the rule of the day and most people buy into the deception because they can no longer discern truth from lies or they actually want to believer liars. For example the rhetoric that most whites are racists but blacks are not while black gangs beat white people in many cities in this nation. Or the lie that everyone wealthy got their money at the expense of others. Deception is so ingrained into our American society today that I hardly know where to begin to even talk about it. Superman with his truth, justice and the American way was the ideal of Americans in the 1950′s, but the trend in America just some 50 years later is now lies, injustice and the deceptive way. There is deception in religion, there is deception in our government, there is deception in our justice system, there is deception in the market place, and there is deception in almost every service that you purchase. Who can even find a real man of integrity anymore in America? No wonder that people in business don’t want to hire anyone. If they do it is very likely that they will be deceived in more ways than one and good luck trying to get rid of a bad worker who feels entitled to the job because he/she was born. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I will just make a few observations of my own to make my point. Deception in Religion: Mormons keep pretending to be Christians when they really are pagans that think that they are becoming gods through their own achievements. They will lie in your face about what they actually believe just to entrap you into their cult. Glenn Beck had a rally to support Israel but ended up promoting himself and complaining that the Christians were the only group that would not accept that he was saved. Saved from what? Before you read what Jack Kensella said about his trip to Israel to be at the Beck event read what Jan Markell of Olive tree Ministries had to say about this. Note from Jan: Jack Kinsella is a dear friend of mine. We have ministered together on several occasions. He has been my frequent radio guest on “Understanding the Times.” In between, we chat on the phone, agreeing that our Lord’s return could be today. I exhort you to consider his daily e-newsletter, The Omega Letter.It will help you understand the times. I refrained from commenting on the Glenn Beck Israel tour because I wasn’t on it and I wanted to believe the best. Jack did attend and makes some stunning observations below. He told me far more than in print here, all of it disturbing. Jack reports that many on the trip were grieved and that his report is not just from one disgruntled participant. There are many voices saying Glenn is “one of us” — even calling him a Christian Zionist. But he is not a Christian and he is trying to pass himself off as a Christian. It was clear to Jack and others that the “Restoring Courage” event was first about Mormon issues and secondarily, about Israel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Appreciate Glenn Beck for what he does right: Exposing Leftist shenanigans and revealing the Marxists that Jim Wallis and Van Jones are. His warnings are valid. But understand that over time, there will be many sucked into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, one of the most deceptive cults. This fits in just wonderfully now that even evangelicals are looking for “common ground” with Mormons. Most importantly, pray for Glenn Beck. What a soldier for the Kingdom he would make! He may truly love Israel and the Jewish people. We don’t know his heart when it comes to this issue. But he put together an event that had serious ulterior motives. That doesn’t make him evil but rather, proves that we need to do our homework before we tie ourselves to a bandwagon. Even Jack admits he didn’t research things properly until he spotted some grievous issues. Know that the Mormon Church has an end-time agenda which includes the “white horse prophecy.” Some day a Mormon will save America. Our Constitution will hang by a thread. To learn more, we endorse the ministry of Ed Decker and carry some of his books on the side bar. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now read about the deception that Jack Kinsella experienced on Glenn Beck’s Israel rally. Christian TV airwaves and Christian bookstores are chock full of information by deceptive liars claiming visions and all sorts of presumptions that came from their own deliberate lies or their own unreliable contemplative mysticism (at best like TM with a Jesus figure make up in one’s own mind and at worst a trip right into the occult) rather than the Bible. Often while in Christian company I have to listen to Christians repeat the lies of the “Christian” TV media stars tall tales like what they said on TV was the gospel truth. The same can be said about the books Christian read. They show little discernment because they have little knowledge of the Bible. Christians need to start reading through the Bible instead of depending on TV for their information and those selling neo-Gnosticism or they are going to get fleeced and barbecued. I recently read that only ten percent of Christians have actually read through the Bible even once in their entire lives. I could be wrong but I would say from my own observations that the ten percent figure is too high. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Deception by the government: On the national front you might think that we would have a job recovery by now after spending $4 trillion over the last 3 years to stimulate the economy, a $4 trillion that we had to borrow. Now, almost three years into this failed agenda, government wants us to believe that doing more of the same policies that failed to create jobs for the last three years would work if we just allowed them to throw another trillion dollars at the problem. They rob Peter to pay Paul and then they wonder why no wealth is created. After three years, People are still buying into economic lies that can’t create jobs. The truth is that the only real way we can create new jobs in this country and save the economic future of this country is to get busy developing the abundant energy resources that we have and to quit sending our money to fascist China that will use it to become our worst nightmare in a decade. It is just plain deception to tell people that they need to buy electric cars and then close the coal plants that will be needed to power these cars. The environmental wackos in government think if you plug it in, the electricity will come. The Government Motors Volt electric car is such a success that even with all the government subsidies, you could put all the Volts made in America on one slow boat to China (and they would probably sink it). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Deception from those claiming to know what we know they do not know: Americans have to quit believing the lies of people like Al Gore that have their own agenda to make money and make us all socialist slaves of people like themselves. Man made global warming is a deception promoted by control freaks like Al Gore that think there are 5 billion too many humans on the planet and that government should do something about that. The only man made global warming is caused by these deceivers fanning the carbon fuel flames to warm their very own pot of gravy. I have news for these godless control freaks. God controls the climate on earth. The climate does not change because these hot air producers get paid to keep producing more hot air. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The deception in the market place has also become epidemic in America: I want to Subway a few months ago and noticed that their 32 ounce cup was deceptively changed to a 30 ounce cup for the same price but they still had a 42 ounce cup. Then last week I went into Subway and the 42 cup was changed to a 40 ounce cup that looks exactly the same as the 42 ounce cup. I guess next week the foot long sub will be close enough at 11 inches. Just like those half gallons in the supermarkets became 48 ounces and the 8 ounce cartons of Yogurt became 6 and the pound bags of salad became 6 to 14 ounces. I am not picking on Subway, the others probably are or will soon be doing the same things. If I remember right it was not long ago that everyone had 44 ounce cups as their largest drink. I know McDonald’s biggest cup is now 42 ounces but I cannot say for sure if it was once 44. I guess they are counting on our short memories. They must think we are all stupid and that we will not notice these deceptions. I bet these corporations have brain storm sessions on how they can screw the customer and increase profits without the customers noticing. I can just see them giving shaft of the month rewards. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More deception by government and on government: Oh yeah…the government deceptively tells us there is little or no inflation. If you believe that fairy tail you probably have way too much money. Products are shrinking in size because the dollar is shrinking in value because of the Fed money printing policy and our foreign trade imbalances. The deception is not all on the side of government either by a long shot. Many today are doing their best to deceive government and by doing so they are actually robbing those that play by the rules. They are lying on their taxes and some are claiming disabilities that they really do not have in order to get SSI or workman’s compensation. People say they cannot get a job because they would rather sit home and collect a check from the government for years. Any wonder why Americans are so fat? Anything anyone can get away with without getting caught seems to be the rule in much of the country, deception is epidemic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Deception just to be deceptive: There is another deception that is coming from people that usually pose as Libertarians. They tell people that everything that America does is controlled by some globalist evil elite. They say all our foreign wars are evil and most everything that we do in the world is about protecting oil for the rich oil barrens and bankers and making money for rich Jews. Many of these would never claim to be antisemitic, many even claim to be Christians, but by buying into these theories they are promoting hate for the Jews. That along with Islam is why antisemitism is on the rise all over the world. What they spout as truth on websites and radio are anti-government lies and exaggerations and are mostly directed to appeal to the Far Right but their lies actually originated from propaganda from the Far Left enemies of America and the Islamists. Frankly, there are Far Left Trojan Horses in our camp and they are mostly on the Internet. They promote doctrine that is so radical that people that believe it will be labeled as wackos. I do not want to name names for obvious reasons but I think the real purpose of these anti-government websites is to destroy the Right by being more extreme than most anyone on the right actually is. The purpose of their existence is to get those on the Right labeled as radical wackos like they pretend to be so that the Left can then demonize the Right. The deception of the Far Left is incredible, they will use any means as a means to an end for world socialism and that is right out of the Communist play book. Check into the personal backgrounds of the people running these anti-government libertarian websites and you just might be shocked and enlightened. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Have you experienced this deception epidemic? Have you also noticed that you cannot trust hardly anyone anymore to do what they promised? Readers here might be interested in your own experiences with this rising deception epidemic in America. Your comments and experiences on this topic are welcome. One thing we know for sure, Satan was a liar from the beginning and those following him certainly love to prove it.

Proof of the Banking Conspiracy A Message from the Past

Proof of the Banking Conspiracy A Message from the Past Our nation, these United States were born from defiance of the thievery of bankers- it is both our heritage and obligation. We’ve grown up with many of the inherent rights American Patriots fought for and won more than two hundred years ago; we Americans have an obligation to stand against the current fruition of three hundred years of a banking conspiracy. If we do not stand against this plot, there will be nothing left for our future generations. This plot is real - can you disbelieve those original American Patriots who guaranteed your freedoms in the Constitution? Every dollar printed by a bank requires a payment of interest in return. Before the Federal Reserve printed the money, private banks were given charters to print the money - these private banks have always been paid interest. The only two Presidents in the history of this nation who printed U.S. Notes, a debt free currency outlined in the U.S. Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 5,) are Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Kennedy printed U.S. Notes for the purpose of paying off the Federal debt… a feat only accomplished by Andrew Jackson. J.F.K planned to abolish the Federal Income Tax, which merely goes to pay interest to the Federal Reserve, rendering the IRS irrelevant. The IRS is merely a collection agency operating out of Puerto Rico, which was created by the Federal Alcohol Administration, which in turn was absolved shortly after the revocation of Prohibition. Furthermore, the Federal Reserve's top seven majority owners are all families of Europe! In the words of fellow writer Christopher Mark, “The Federal Reserve is about as federal as Federal Express.” It’s a huge extortion scam! In order to pay for the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued a debt-free U.S. Note nicknamed a ‘greenback.’ This prevented the banking institutions from reaping the huge benefits of wartime borrowing- the major lever of accumulating banker’s wealth for nearly three hundred years. President Lincoln was quoted as stating, “The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than beaurocracy. It denounces as public enemies all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.” Lincoln was, of course, assassinated, as John F. Kennedy would be; is it mere coincidence that both of them printed a debt-free form of currency? Lincoln made a startling prediction, “Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic destroyed.” Another adversary of the bankers, President Garfield explained, “Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.” It seems a man possessing this knowledge would have tried to remove the bank’s power and give it back to our nation. It also seems likely this is why President Garfield was shot dead. Andrew Jackson, upon entry into the Oval Office, called a delegation of bankers into the White House and told them, “You are a den of vipers and thieves! I intend to rout you out, and by the grace of the Eternal God, will rout you out!” This was not a man to sidestep issues - Andrew Jackson was a rambunctious man who took problems head-on. What’s more: he solved them! This was the only President in U.S. history to ever reduce the Federal debt to zero. He may not have been exaggerating when he said, “The bank is trying to kill me! But I will kill it!” After he dissolved the Second National Bank of America (back then banks were granted twenty year charters to print money) there was an attempt on his life. The would-be assassin pointed his pistol at President Jackson and pulled the trigger- the gun jammed. An enraged sixty-seven-year-old President attacked him with his cane as the gunman pulled a second pistol out and pulled the trigger- again, this gun jammed! It seems ‘the grace of the Eternal God’ was with President Jackson! The international bankers have been combating Americans since before the Revolutionary War. Benjamin Franklin explains, “The Colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been for the poverty created by the bad influence of the English Bankers on the Parliament, which has caused the Colonies hatred of England and the Revolutionary War… the inability of the Colonists to get the power to issue their own money, permanently out of the hands of King George III and the international bankers, was the prime reason for the Revolutionary War.” Once the Colonial Scrip was outlawed, the bankers didn’t keep enough money in circulation; this caused widespread indigence throughout the Colonies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thomas Jefferson knew of the great evils done by these bankers: “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the government in defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks, and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” Jefferson also made predictions as to the goals of the international bankers; their goal has always been to dominate all governments, and he knew this nation would be under constant attack from their subversive tactics. Thomas Jefferson foresaw, “This is the tendency of all human governments: A departure from the principle becomes a precedent for a second (principle); that second for a third (principle); and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering…” That about sums up our decadent society! “And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.” Who else could have a stranglehold on our Federal Government other than these international bankers? If their power were ever taken away from them, there would have been a great war against them… how else could their power have been reduced? Of course we know, the power of the international bankers has grown exponentially over time- and so we’re alive now at the pinnacle of their achievements… and height of our danger. President Jefferson predicted, “If the American People ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around (the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” Well, a private bank has controlled the issue of our currency for nearly a century, and we’re nearing the globalist/international bankers crowning achievement. What can result other than their total control over all property and money? We are truly in dire straights. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Through groups such as the Bilderbergs, the Counsel on Foreign Relations, and David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission, the wealthiest men of the earth have joined together to command every aspect of our lives. Through their control of education and mass media, they’ve promoted decadence of all sorts. In my school they taught us the theory of evolution during fifth grade; they were mandated federally to teach eleven year olds that they came from monkeys! The fact is, a system of self-governance is only operable when people follow a code of ethics- erode the conscience of our nation, and it will implode. This is the reason Christianity has given way to false churches which claim to be Christian; this is the reason MTV constantly shows men kissing; it’s also the reason the media shows men to be concerned exclusively with fornication, and the reason women are mostly shown cheating on their mates. All of this contributes to the decay of the family- leaving sole loyalty to a corrupt system of government. Author of Common Sense, Thomas Paine noticed, “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right.” Add to the equation a sixty-hour workweek, and the people are enslaved without the sloppiness of physical shackles. Thomas Jefferson said it well: “Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it.” The solution for the bankers to overcome freedom of the press: consolidate until we can count the media corporations on one hand. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FEMA has built internment camps for Americans; incinerators have been constructed in Colorado. When will the madness end? The FBI recently handed out pamphlets to police which classified possible terrorists: homeschoolers, Christians, and those who frequently reference the Constitution… describes me pretty well. President Jefferson said also, “Experience hath shown, that even under the best form (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” Every time we glance at a dollar bill we should remember what George Washington had to say: “Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is a force, like fire: a dangerous servant and terrible master.” Our government has passed the Patriot Act and Homeland Security Act; these have negated much of our Bill of Rights. We are supposed to accept unconstitutional laws- restrictions on liberty- in the name of ‘security.’ Benjamin Franklin said it best when he said, “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” These unconstitutional acts are now the law of the land- but the laws mean nothing except to sound an alarm… the problems will arise when these ‘laws’ are executed by local and federal police. The Constitution is, and will continue to be the law of this land- greased politicians can alter it any way they wish, it doesn’t mean we’re going to follow it! As a Republican Congress and President ready themselves to reinstate the 1993 Assault Weapons Ban- this time without a sunset clause- we should revisit the reasons the writers of the Constitution made the Second Amendment the right to keep and bear arms. Jefferson spoke brilliantly (as usual), “The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” He didn’t say ‘if’ they try and take the guns; he knew this was inevitable. One thing’s definite, the day an attempt is made to confiscate American’s guns, is the day all hell breaks loose! The reason this Amendment was so important as to be second only to freedom of speech was explained by Jefferson, “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” This wasn’t guaranteed in the Bill of Rights for the sake of hunters! This is our ‘last resort,’ and intended for desperate times! Is the world such a civilized place that American citizens no longer need to protect themselves from enemies foreign or domestic? Or is this just another symptom of a government on the verge of blatant tyranny? The idea that we are so civilized is absurd! As a world, we’ve descended to a level of decadence likely thought impossible in past centuries! It seems ironic to me that as technology increases, society has suffered a meltdown. “Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day,” again, Jefferson. We have made great strides to this end- our numbers continue to grow- the world has reached a state so destitute that people are taking initiative to discover the truth. Citizens have grown tired of the ‘news’ and are turning to alternative media. A full page add ran in the Washington Post for Fromthewilderness.com, which mentioned a dozen other news sites. It’s the old analogy of a hand around one’s neck- as the grip tightens, a reaction is imminent. As Alex Jones says, “We’re on the march, the Empire is on the run!” To those who will not stand up for future generations of Americans, Samuel Adams spoke thus, “If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” The same families of international bankers who plagued the original colonies have grown stronger and more bold- I doubt they’ll stop until they have all the possessions on earth… the very earth itself. The spirit of this nation must rise up again! What would the patriots who wrote our Constitution do? What advise can they send us from the past? Patrick Henry advises us, “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” Is there any more noble way to die? I cannot fathom one. He went on to say, “There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, sir, let it come!” The FEMA camps are in place, global positioning is in place, and implantable microchips have been nearly perfected. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Dickinson realized, “We have counted the costs of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. Honor, justice, and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.” The Founding Fathers advise us to fight! They advise us to stand up against tyranny- of course, after all peaceful routes have been exercised. Though, if the spirit of these valiant men had always been present in this nation, we wouldn’t be facing this current predicament… they would have never let things get this bad! I will not be a slave! I will not see the new generation of my family be as slaves! The only way to prevent this slavery is to defeat these international bankers who’ve nurtured themselves as parasites on Americans and the world for hundreds of years. They are but a few dozen men tormenting the earth, and all the technology in the world cannot defeat us if the men who’ve sold their souls would just steal them back by standing up for what’s right. There may not be a better creed than Jefferson’s, “I swear upon the altar of God, eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” The reality of the situation is also best summed up by him, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” It’s a shame that sick and corrupted men have brought this upon the people of the world, and we can only hope a solution will arise before all peaceful attempts have been exhausted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Americans, people of faith and conscience, and U.S. soldiers- we must stand up to these globalists before it’s too late. They believe the earth is their possession! We must prove them wrong! In the immortal words of George Washington, “Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the world that a free man, contending for his liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.”

Obama and the Death of Capitalism, Taxes, Regulations, Lawsuits

Obama and the Death of Capitalism, Taxes, Regulations, Lawsuits The Liberty and the death of it in America Ben Casselman penned a thoughtful piece last week in the WSJ:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324031404578481162903760052.html which documented the decline of risk-taking in business ventures. Hard data show that both the number of new companies and the use of venture capital is waning. And this downward trend is a major contributor to the fact that the recovery from the recent recession is so painfully slow and anemic. Casselman goes on to explain that economists aren’t entirely sure what is behind the decline and gave some potential causes: health care costs, licensing requirements, an aging population, and an increase in large corporations are among some of the suggestions. While these factors do contribute, Casselman missed the glaring elephant in the room. The government, and her anti-business policies, do more to stifle free business activity than any other than any other single mitigating circumstance. This administration has been exceedingly heavy-handed in its efforts to demonize businesses, while promising that businesses will be highly taxed and regulated. Whether it is labor regulation by the NRLB or environmental regulation by the EPA, government interference is overreaching and restrictive. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Obama has provided the background for a litigation-friendly environment Additionally there have been huge increases in both criminal rules and regulations about what businesses are allowed and not allowed to do — from nitpicky labor rules to dictating employee minutiae to minimum wage requirements which restrict business hiring. More importantly, Obama has provided the background for a litigation-friendly environment. If a larger, more financially stable company wants to steal something from a smaller company, they can sue them or just threaten with a costly legal battle. Or, if labor doesn’t like them, they can force them to shut them down as an alternative to litigation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Obama: “You didn’t build that” Finally, Obama has taken the stuffing out of entrepreneurship by telling people “you didn’t build that” — meaning it’s not yours and it belongs to everyone else. He delivered the further blows that if you are successful, we’re going to take your success away from you by taxing you to death with higher rates and surtaxes.http://www.alanjoelny.com/free-will-and-capitalism/ Of course, there will be some successes. It just now takes a higher level of skill, ideas, and money to exercise your entrepreneurial spirit. It’s not like there won’t be the Jeffrey Bezo or the Bill Gates or the Steve Jobs. They’ll still come through everything despite the immense impediments. The problem is that it is the middle entrepreneurs who will have a hard time getting started, and even when they do, they will likely get discouraged in the mess. But it is this middle group, the bread-and-butter of small businesses, that have made this country great. That future is threatened, as we are seeing now in subtle shifts within the realm of business making. The future of this country will continue to decline if the anti-business sentiment that Obama has unleashed is allowed to continue. The middle entrepreneurs, the mom-and-pops, the family businesses are the ones that make up the difference between the very tepid growth that we are seeing and the strong growth and recovery that could be better—that we would be experiencing right now as we have in the past—if businesses actually had better opportunity. Businesses go into business not to comply with government dictates, but to provide a product, a service, to make things. The very liberty for Americans to have the opportunity to succeed and fail, to take risk, to survive, and to thrive is under siege.

They Were White and They Were Slaves

The Truth About Slavery from the American Resistance May our voices be heard The history of America and of Western Civilization is not being taught as it should be in our schools and universities today. Historical facts are suppressed, and what is taught is distorted in such a way as to advance the world government agenda, with all inconvenient historical facts, knowledge of which might cause our young people to question that agenda, purposely left out. It is a tragedy of monumental proportions that our schools have been converted into "liberal" brainwashing institutions, though I do feel a sense of encouragement when I read that more and more real Americans are taking their children out of the public schools and teaching them at home. As regular listeners to this program know, the global elite that push multiculturalism push it because it undermines our national and racial sense of identity, and not out of any love or concern for ethnic minorities. In fact, it should be obvious to everyone that multiculturalism and globalism threaten the racial and cultural integrity of all peoples, not just White Americans. Nevertheless, because America is, or was until recently, a predominantly White nation, one of the primary ways that national disintegration is promoted by the destroyers of nations in this country is by the inculcation of White guilt for Black slavery. By recounting and emphasizing again and again the real and imagined sufferings of Black people under slavery, the White student is made to feel that his ancestors were cruel, morally retarded, and evil. They are made to feel that they owe Black people a nearly infinite compensation, since, they are taught, Black people's problems today are the legacy of hundreds of years of slavery for which White people are responsible. They are taught that the relative prosperity which we enjoy today was achieved largely by exploitation of Black slaves. Is it any wonder that thousands of our young people join Jesse Jackson in chanting "Hey Hey Ho Ho, Western Culture's Gotta Go"? Is it any wonder that they all too often reject our European cultural heritage and embrace all forms of alien styles of music, dancing, dress, grooming and slang, from Jamaican "rasta" to "gangsta rap"? Is it any wonder that White teenagers are committing suicide in higher numbers every year? They have received, in our public schools and colleges, not a "liberal education," but an education by liberals. They have been taught very well indeed -taught that they and their ancestors and their traditions and their natural feelings are worthless and an obstacle to be overcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Now these liberal lies are easily countered by facts. The primary fact that must be emphasized is that many hundreds of thousands of White people were slaves in early America. In fact, White slavery was not only extremely common, but until the late 18th century it was far more common than Black slavery here. Also little known is the fact that living and labor conditions for Black slaves, bad as they often were, were usually far better than those for White slaves. At this point, many of you are probably saying "White slaves? What in the world is he talking about? Sure, there were White indentured servants and apprentices in colonial America, and maybe sometimes they were treated badly, but actual White slavery - that's something that disappeared with the Romans and the Vikings. And to compare White indentured servants to Black slaves is the worst sort of racist distortion of history!" Some of you are probably saying or thinking exactly that, and quite frankly to most of us the idea of White slavery in early America is hard to accept, schooled as we are by the controlled media and the liberal-dominated public schools. But researcher and writer Michael Hoffman has recently come out with one of the most earth-shaking works of historical research in the last decade, entitled They Were White and They Were Slaves. This program is based on Mr. Hoffman's original research into documents long hidden from the public eye and revealing a very different America from that presented in the controlled media. (Following from They Were White and They Were Slaves) There is a history of White people that has never been told in any coherent form, largely because most modern historians have, for reasons of politics or psychology, refused to recognize White slaves in America as just that. Today, not a tear is shed for the sufferings of millions of our enslaved forefathers. 200 years of White slavery in America have been almost completely obliterated from the collective memory of the American people. Writer Elaine Kendall asks "Who wants to be reminded that half - perhaps as many as two-thirds - of the original American colonists came here, not of their own free will, but kidnapped, shanghaied, impressed, duped, beguiled, and yes, in chains - ?...we tend to gloss over it... we'd prefer to forget the whole sorry chapter." A correct understanding of the authentic history of the enslavement of Whites in America could have profound consequences for the future. Most of the books on White labor in early America use words like "White indentured servitude," "White bondservants," White servants," etc. Few are now aware that the majority of these so-called "servants" were bound to a condition more properly called permanent chattel slavery unto death. The papers legally allowing the enslavement, called indentures, were often forged by kidnappers and press-gangs; and in cases where these papers did not literally specify a life term of servitude, the slave-owner had the legal right to unilaterally increase the length of the term on the flimsiest pretexts. The so-called "apprentices" or "indentured servants" had no say in the matter. These enslaved White people are, however, never called slaves by establishment academics and media spokesmen. To do so would destroy the myth of unique Black victimhood and universal White guilt. Today, with the massive concentration of educational and media resources on the Black experience of slavery, the unspoken assumption has been that only Blacks have been enslaved to any degree or magnitude worthy of study or memorial. The historical record reveals that this is not the case, however. The word "slave" itself is derived from the word "slav," a reference to the Eastern European White people who, among others, were enslaved by their fellow Whites, by the Mongols, and by the Arabs over a period of many centuries. According to Thomas Burton's Parliamentary Diary 1656-1659, in 1659 the English parliament debated the practice of selling British Whites into slavery in the New World. In the debate, these Whites were referred to not as "indentured servants" but as "slaves." In the Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West Indies of 1701, we read of a protest over the "encouragement to the spiriting away of Englishmen without their consent and selling them for slaves, which hath been a practice very frequent and known by the name of kidnapping." In the British West Indies, plantation slavery was instituted as early as 1627. In Barbados by the 1640s there were an estimated 25,000 slaves, of whom 21,700 were White. This document records that while White slaves were worked to death, as they cost next to nothing, there were Caribbean Indians brought from Guiana to help propagate native foodstuffs who were well-treated and received as free persons by the wealthy planters. The Englishman William Eddis, after observing White slaves in America in the 1770s wrote: "Generally speaking, they groan beneath a worse than Egyptian bondage." Governor Sharpe of the Maryland colony compared the property interest of the planters in their White slaves, with the estate of an English farmer consisting of a "Multitude of Cattle." Lay historian Col. A. B. Ellis, writing in the British Newspaper Argosy for May 6, 1893, said: "Few, but readers of old colonial state papers and records, are aware that between the years 1649 to 1690 a lively trade was carried on between England and the plantations, as the colonies were then called, [a trade] in political prisoners... they were sold at auction... for various terms of years, sometimes for life, as slaves." Sir George Sandys' 1618 plan for Virginia referred to bound Whites assigned to the treasurer's office to "belong to said office forever." The service of Whites bound to Berkeley's Hundred was deemed "perpetual." Numerous documents from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and even nineteenth centuries reveal that these Whites in bondage certainly referred to themselves as slaves, and there are even records of Blacks referring to them as "White slaves." Did you know that the expression "kidnapping," (originally kid-nabbing) had its origin in the abduction of poor White children to be sold into factory slavery in Britain or plantation slavery in America? Did you know that the expression "spirited away" likewise originated with the White slavers, who were also called "spirits"? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The White slavery in America was but an extension of the White slavery in the mother country, Britain, where the legal form of contracted indentured servitude and apprenticeship was maintained as a spurious cover for plain and simple lifetime chattel slavery. Particularly shocking was the enslavement of White children for factory labor. Children were openly seized from orphanages and workhouses and placed in the factories. In Brian Inglis' Poverty and the Industrial Revolution we read: "Here then was a ready source of labor - and a very welcome one. The children were formally indentured as apprentices... What happened to them was nobody's concern. A parish in London, having got rid of a batch of unwanted pauper children, was unlikely to interest itself in their subsequent fate... The term 'apprenticeship' was in any case a misnomer...." In Marjorie Cruikshank's Children and Industry: "many employers imported child apprentices, parish orphans from workhouses far and near. Clearly, overseers of the poor were only too keen to get rid of the orphans... children were brought (to the factories) like 'cartloads of live lumber' and abandoned to their fate... poor children, taken from workhouses or kidnapped in the streets of the metropolis, used to be brought down by... coach to Manchester and slid into a cellar in Mosley Street as if they had been stones or any other inanimate substance." White children worked up to sixteen hours a day and during that period the doors were locked. Children - and most of the mill workers were children - were allowed out only to 'go to the necessary.' In some factories it was forbidden to open the windows... The child 'apprentices' who were on night shift might have to stay on it for as long as four or five years. They were lucky if they were given a half penny an hour. This was labor without any breaks - unceasing labor. When the children fell asleep at the machines, they were lashed into wakefulness with a whip. If they arrived late to the factory, talked to another child, or committed some other infraction they were beaten with an iron bar known as a "billy-roller," eight feet long and one inch and a half in diameter. Many were thus murdered, often for trifling offenses such as calling out names to the next child. Thousands of children were mangled or mutilated by the primitive factory machinery every year. They were often disfigured or disabled for life, then abandoned, receiving no compensation of any kind. Similar conditions obtained for enslaved White children on this side of the Atlantic, as what William Blake called "these Satanic Mills" spread to our shores. Historian Oscar Handlin writes that in colonial America, White servants could be bartered for a profit, sold to the highest bidder for the unpaid debts of their masters, and otherwise transferred like moveable goods or chattels... The controlled media focus exclusively on the enslavement of Blacks. The impression is given that only Whites bear responsibility for enslaving Blacks and that only Blacks were slaves. In fact, Blacks in Africa engaged in extensive enslavement of their own kind. Slavery was endemic in Africa, with entire tribes being enslaved through conquest on a regular basis. When Arabic, Jewish and White slave traders arrived on the coast of sub-Saharan Africa, they seldom if ever had to travel inland and fight or pursue their quarry. They were met on the coast by Africans more than willing to sell slaves to them by the thousands. And in America, records show that Black slaves were owned, not just by a few wealthy Whites, but by free Blacks and by Cherokee Indians. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In some cases, these Blacks and Indians even owned White slaves. White slaves were actually owned by Blacks and Indians in the South to such an extent that the Virginia Assembly passed the following law in 1670: "It is enacted that no negro or Indian though baptized and enjoying their own freedom shall be capable of any such purchase of Christians." The records of the time reveal that free Blacks often owned Black slaves themselves. In 1717, it was proposed that a qualification for election to the South Carolina Assembly was to be "the ownership of one White man." From 1609 until the early 1800s, between one half and two thirds of all the White colonists who came to the New World came as slaves. White slaves cleared the forests, drained the swamps, built the roads, sweated in the fields, and died like flies in hellish factories. Owned like property, they had no rights nor recourse to the law. Fugitive slave laws applied to them just as to Blacks if they should flee their masters. Black slaves were expensive, and though at times cruelly used, were not often used beyond the limits of human endurance. That would have been a waste of a costly investment. White slaves, however, consisting of the poor and unwanted "surplus population" of Britain, were available for nearly nothing, just a few pence for a thug to billyclub them and shanghai them aboard a westward-bound vessel. Thus they were expendable. Both psychologically and materially Whites in modern times are called upon to bear burdens of guilt and monetary reparation for Black slavery. This position is based entirely on enforced ignorance and the deliberate suppression of the record of White slavery in North America. Reparations? Welfare and affirmative action as compensation for past slavery? Leaving aside for the moment the very questionable idea of punishing the great-grandson for the sins of the great-grandfather, let us consider the principles involved. Far more Whites in America are descendants of White slaves than are descendants of slave owners. And considering the endemic nature of slavery in Black Africa, it is quite likely that a large proportion of Blacks in America have ancestors who were themselves slave owners. So let us hear no more of White guilt and endless payments and "affirmative action" to atone for the sin of the enslavement of Blacks. These endless payments themselves are a form of slavery. For the good of all races and peoples, let us rid ourselves of slavery for all time.

Do you know people that still believe that America is a free country?

Do you know people that still believe that America is a free country? Do you have friends or family that are proud to live in “the land of the free and the home of the brave”? If you do, just show them this article. The things that you are about to read are enough to make the blood of any red-blooded American boil. We don’t live in a free country anymore. Instead, we live in a “Big Brother” police state control grid that is becoming more restrictive every single day. Most of our politicians seem to be control freaks that are obsessed with running every single little detail of our lives. These days there has to be a “rule” or a “regulation” for everything. The radical social engineers in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and communist China never even dared to try some of the things that are going on in America today. We are all being treated little better than cattle and we are all being taught that it is best to just sit in our homes and absorb all of the television “programming” that is being provided for us. Meanwhile, our public schools have become little more than prison grids. Our children are being taught to enjoy living as docile slaves in a world where imagination, liberty, freedom and adventure are all greatly discouraged. Unfortunately, none of this is an exaggeration. Our politicians love to give speeches about “liberty” and “freedom”, but they always seem to have excuses to justify the endless parade of liberty-killing laws that they are imposing on all the rest of us. Almost all of the freedoms listed in the Bill of Rights have been severely eroded. In fact, a number of them are almost totally gone at this point. The things that you are about to read should make you mad. In fact, if none of these things make you mad there is a problem. Sadly, millions of Americans have actually embraced tyranny, and if you are not outraged by any of the items listed below than you are likely one of them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following are 10 examples that show that we no longer live in the land of the free and the home of the brave…. #1 According to the ACLU, state police in Michigan are using “extraction devices” to download data from the cellphones of motorists that they pull over. This is taking place even if those pulled over are not accused of doing anything wrong. The following is how an article on CNET News describes the capabilities of these “extraction devices”…. The devices, sold by a company called Cellebrite, can download text messages, photos, video, and even GPS data from most brands of cell phones. The handheld machines have various interfaces to work with different models and can even bypass security passwords and access some information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #2 In the state of New York, the Department of Health has designated wiffle ball, dodge ball, kick ball, freeze tag, red rover, frisbee tossing and tug of war as “risky recreational activities“. Any organization or program that allows kids to enjoy these games during the summer will now be subject to strict government regulation according to the New York Daily News…. Under the new rules, any program that offers two or more organized recreational activities – with at least one of them on the risky list – is deemed a summer camp and subject to state regulation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #3 At one public school in the Chicago area, children have been banned from bringing their lunches from home. Yes, you read that correctly. Students at that particular school are absolutely prohibited from bringing lunches from home. Instead, it is mandatory that they eat the food that the school cafeteria serves. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #4 Would you like to have your face scanned and your ID recorded every time you attend a public event? Don’t laugh. The San Francisco Entertainment Commission is actually proposing a new rule which “would require all venues with an occupancy of over 100 people to record the faces of all patrons and employees and scan their ID’s for storage in a database which they must hand over to law enforcement on request.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #5 In Delaware, police and state government officials recently tore a basketball hoop right out of a family’s front yard and carted it away because it was “too close” to the street. They even extracted the pole for the basketball hoop out of the ground and took that away too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #6 In Missouri of all places, two young girls named Abigail and Caitlin Mills were recently taught a lesson on how to be good citizens in the emerging totalitarian control grid going up all over the United States. After a complaint from a neighbor, the city of Hazelwood cracked down on the two girls and told them that they must stop selling girl scout cookies in their own front yard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #7 As I have written about previously, federal bureaucrats have outlawed the incandescent light bulbs that we all grew up with and will be forcing us to switch over to new CFL (compact fluorescent lamp) light bulbs that are more expensive and that are actually worse for the environment. One new study conducted by scientists in Germany has shown that the new CFL light bulbs that we are being forced to use contain poisonous carcinogens that are likely cause cancer. In fact, the German scientists say that these CFL bulbs should be “kept as far away as possible from the human environment”. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #8 Many states are aggressively seizing “unclaimed” safe deposit boxes and are selling off the contents and using the money to pay state government bills. In the state of California, they are now going after safe deposit boxes if the owners have had “no contact” with the bank for just 3 years. Other states are being nearly as aggressive. If you have a safe deposit box that you have not opened in a while you need to go check on it right away. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #9 One Mississippi state judge recently issued an order for state officials to gather and deliver to him the names of every single child that is being homeschooled in the state. The frightening thing is that the judge did this all on his own. Nobody requested this information and there is no case pending for which this information would be required. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #10 The TSA had promised that they were going to stop groping little children at airports, but apparently that is not the case. For example, one 6 year old little girl made headlines recently when a TSA worker touched all of her private areas before allowing her to get on an airplane. Her parents were forced to stand aside and watch this outrage take place. So what do all of you think about this list? Does anyone out there still believe that we live in the land of the free and the home of the brave? Feel free to leave a comment with your opinion below

America The Brave…or is it America the Fearful?

America The Brave…or is it America the Fearful? After September 11, 2011, America became united, as it grieved the loss of so many lives on American soil. The tragic event also changed so many things and it changed us, we Americans.http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/09/911-to-now-ways-we-have-changed.html I know we talked about how we were not going to allow it to change us, because that meant the terrorist would win, we would just carry on our lives as we always had and defy the purpose of the terrorist in the first place. What we did instead was allow our government to lead us into war and we allowed that same government to interrogate prisoners with torture along with a host of new things, such as intrusive searches at the airport, wiretapping of American citizens and a loss of innocence from the assured peace of mind, we had before — all because of fear. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It was because of fear that we Americans changed. Suddenly, we were vulnerable. Our ever-resourceful intelligence community and our powerful military were invincible no longer in our eyes. It also became an opportunity for some to exploit the fear that so many felt, to fulfill their own agenda. Sometimes politicians in powerful leadership positions, uses fear as a tool to accomplish something, such as starting wars. The war on Iraq by the George W. Bush’s administration is a good example in my opinion.http://voices.yahoo.com/rhetorical-fear-bush-administration-8370.html?cat=37 Clearly, fear was used by members of his administration on the American public, Congress and the world, with warnings that Saddam Hussein’s government had “weapons of mass destruction”. Saddam Hussein we were told, was conspiring with Al Qaeda because of a faulty piece of intelligence, we later learned.http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/13/alqaeda.saddam/ Support was high for the war, mainly because the populace and the Congress believed the Bush Administration’s statements and the intelligence community’s assessment concerning WMDs in Iraq. A majority of Americans were misled because they were afraid and another war offered a solution to make them feel safer. A personal story; my father kept a gun in the house; it was a revolver and a very powerful gun, though I cannot remember the type exactly. I was quite young but I remember the loud sound it made when my father used it in the country once, to shoot a skunk. He gave a warning to us children – there were six of us – telling us “not to ever touch that gun because it had a hair-trigger and it might go off!” We all remembered the sound of those two shots my father fired, so we were all entirely afraid of the gun. It was kept up on the top shelf in the closet of my parent’s bedroom, but it did not matter where he put it, we would not touch it. Fear was a useful tool to keep children from a deadly weapon but it should not be used on adult citizens of a nation. There are a great many threats out there in this world and we have been fortunate to avoid many other horrible acts if it had not been for government intelligence and intervention. Yet government must have its limits. There is a fine line between alerting the public to a possible danger and inciting them to be afraid, and just trust that government to do the right thing, even if it is against our Constitution and most importantly, our sense of moral ethics and decency as a nation. Government is not the only entity that uses fear to incite the public. The Media plays an important part in giving the public a reason to be afraid of all sorts of things. Fear has high ratings for news sources; sensationalism and violence brings in the viewers and the bottom line is profits. The Media has a different motivation than government politicians and it is its job to report the news, though its method of selectively choosing what news to report is usually bias, in favor of its ratings. Then there are the hate groups and the propaganda machines on the internet that pop out garbage they call news. A good example would be the lies and misinformation that have been told concerning our current president, Barack Obama, accusing him of not being born here and that he is secretly a Muslim. I believe what riled up many on the far right was a lie that Obama had plans to take away all their guns.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_ARgiehWko He has never sought to do that, not even in the most recent gun control bill. Yet that false piece of information has been pushed by many right-wing conservative blogs, email campaigns, just to stir up fear among the less informed that Obama was out to take over the country with a Muslim government and force Sharia law on everyone. The main tool of any terrorist is fear. When we as a nation make important decisions, such as a decision to go to war or not, or allow our civil rights to be waived in favor of more protection and a sense of safety, all out of fear, we then are allowing ourselves to be manipulated by sharp players who do not have our interests in mind. I believe the best cure for fear is knowledge, the more we know the more we will understand.