Now that more than a week has come and gone since House liberals sold off the freedom of Americans under the guise of health care late on a Saturday night, the clamor over the supposed swine flu crisis is already fading into memory. While the nation waits for the falsehoods to return before the Senate takes its vote, we should reflect upon the events which allowed the first measure to pass.

As the House vote on Pelosicare approached, liberals fabricated an H1N1 pandemic and leveraged their lapdogs in the media to manufacture the consent of the American people. According to a report in July, the virus was actually spliced together in a Wisconsin lab and released onto the public.

Investigative journalist and RT contributor, Wayne Madsen from Washington, says that the world is actually fighting a man-made tragedy. He says the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was involved in the development of the swine flu virus.

“The 1918 Spanish flu was extracted from the corpse of a dead Aleut woman, who died of the disease in a small village of Alaska, and it was combined with other forms of flu to create this particular H1N1 that was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization.”

Madsen points out that, “A company called FluGen, which is associated with this research at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, is now developing a vaccine. I think what we see with Baxter International, FluGen and other companies developing a vaccine when some of these companies were involved in the research of this particular form of flu.”

The possibility of a deadly virus escaping from a lab into the public was highlighted in May when a Canadian scientist was arrested for smuggling 22 vials of Ebola across the border.

A Canadian scientist has been arrested for smuggling 22 vials stolen from Canada’s National Microbiology Lab, used in Ebola and HIV research, into the United States, Canadian and US officials said Wednesday.

Konan Michel Yao, 42, “was taken into custody” while crossing the border from Manitoba province into the western US state of North Dakota on May 5, said a spokeswoman for the Public Health Agency of Canada, which operates the lab.

According to US prosecutor Lynn Jordheim, Yao was detained for carrying unidentified biological materials in vials wrapped in aluminium foil inside a glove and packaged in a plastic bag, along with electrical wires, in the trunk of his car.

Despite these efforts, the swine flu count still had to be exaggerated in order to create numbers which would influence public opinion.

Once the notion of a pandemic was established, political figures such as HHS Secretary Sebelius publicly urged Americans to take the swine flu vaccine, despite the fact that she was giving legal immunity to the drug makers behind closed doors.

To further stoke public fears, the Council on Foreign Relations has admittedly used the tactic of false scarcity to create demand for the H1N1 vaccine.

The result has been a wave of vaccination fever.

All of this commotion is because of the H1N1 vaccine. There are two versions: the mist version and the injectable version. The injectable version primarily goes to children who are under two years-old and pregnant women. The mist version is for healthier children who are over two years-old and healthy healthcare workers.

The crowds these days have been spurred on to some extent by news of a possible shortage of the vaccine. Over 250 million doses of vaccine are supposed to be disbursed across the country by the end of the year, each state receiving them in increments.

But Montgomery County has been told it will receive only half of what it needs by the end of the month – with promises of much more to come later.

Health officer Dr Ulder Tillman promised that “It may be a trickle now. It will turn into a stream. It will be a river by the end of the year.”

While exploiting their fabricated pandemic to promote the expansion of government power, politicians ignore the side effects of vaccination, such as Guillain-Barre Syndrome, which is as dangerous as the swine flu virus itself.

A 14-year-old Virginia boy is weak and struggling to walk after coming down with a reported case of Guillain-Barre syndrome within hours after receiving the H1N1 vaccine for swine flu…

GBS is among the most severe adverse events being tracked with updated systems developed by the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration and the American Academy of Neurology in order to monitor the rollout of the H1N1 flu vaccine.

So far, CDC officials have received about 1,700 reports of adverse events linked to the new shot.

In Minnesota, a 4 year old boy nearly died after receiving the H1N1 shot.

A four-year-old Rochester boy is recovering after nearly dying after being vaccinated for H1N1.

Dad Cadmar Akara says his preschooler started showing symptoms shortly after getting the shot Tuesday afternoon from the Mayo northeast Family Clinic.

Last Saturday, in the middle of the evening, treacherous liberals in the House of Representatives sold off the American people by passing an unprecedented measure which would force every family to fork over more than ten thousand dollars each year to an insurance plan chosen by politicians.

For the first time in American history, if this bill becomes law, the feds will force you to buy insurance you might not want or may not need or cannot afford. If you don’t purchase what the government tells you to buy, if you don’t do so when they tell you to do it, if you don’t buy just what they say is right for you, the government may fine you, prosecute you and even put you in jail.

Freedom of choice and control over your own body will be lost. The privacy of your communications and medical-making decisions with your physician will be gone. More of your hard-earned dollars will be at the disposal and tender mercies of federal bureaucrats.

If Obamacare is ever to make it through the Senate and see the light of day, the states are lying in wait to stop it in its tracks using nullification, a process which would bypass Congress and directly amend the Constitution.

Napolitano: All right. Kevin, you and I have talked about this on-air and off many times, there are a couple of ways to amend the Constitution, but they all involve the states, either the states demand — and if enough of them do so — a constitutional convention. The constitutional convention proposed amendments and then they go back to the states, or the Congress circulates an amendment and it goes to the state. In either way, it requires 3/4 of the states to adopt an amendment and then it becomes part of the Constitution.

Question: Can we amend the Constitution? Can we abolish the income tax? Which would starve the federal government back down to its footprint. Can we get the states’ governments to elect senators rather than the people, which would ensure that one of the two houses of the Congress fought for state sovereignty — or is this just fanciful thinking?

Gutzman: Well, we’ve never used the provision of Article V of the Constitution that allows for the states to amend the Constitution without having the Congress be involved. So, we shouldn’t be surprised that, recently, amendments have all about — all been about furthering empowering the central government.

But fortunately, at the moment, there is a groundswell. I have been hearing from legislators in several different states who’ve asked me for advice about the question how the constitutional convention process might work. That is, how the states could go about amending the Constitution to reduce and curb the power of the central government. And I think that there is a significant chance that this could happen. But before it can happen, people have to encourage their state legislators to go out and amend the Constitution.

‘Big Brother’ Barry Obama, ‘Spook in Chief’, has added bloggers to his ever growing ‘enemies list’.

America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon.

In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in the flood of TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports generated every day.

Visible crawls over half a million web 2.0 sites a day, scraping more than a million posts and conversations taking place on blogs, online forums, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. Customers get customized, real-time feeds of what’s being said on these sites, based on a series of keywords.

Federal spies may soon go beyond the stage of monitoring as an international agreement is being drawn up in South Korea which could force internet service providers to remove access from users suspected of improper activity.

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is an attempt to update international law to deal with online intellectual-property violations. The negotiations concluded on Friday and the next round are scheduled for Mexico in January.

The member states, which include the U.S., Canada, the European Union, and other states including Morocco and Mexico, hope to finish off the discussion and make it law later that year. For the average Internet user… 2010 could shape up to be a drastically different year than 2009, with much more scrutiny given to everything you do on your computer and mobile device – every download, upload, viewing, phone unlocking, burning, backing up, etc.

One of the proposals, according to leaks, involve a three-strikes system: three infringements and your Internet service provider (ISP) has to yank the cord from the IP address, not just the lone user. A few illegal downloads, iPhone hackings or movie uploads and an entire family could be without Internet for 12 months.

The Federal Communications Commission is attempting to become your permanent ‘Net Nanny’ through a legislative power grab with the Orwellian name ‘Net Neutrality’.

Proponents of net neutrality would likely respond that it’s necessary to preserve the Web’s long-standing openness. Without tougher regulations, they might say, we could end up with a corporate-controlled Internet that stifles free speech, hurts innovators, and denies the public its rightful access to a powerful communications tool. And they might point to studies they argue prove their points.

But key reports being used to bolster the cause of net neutrality are flawed and unconvincing. And neutrality advocates have precious little in the way of hard data to back up their worries about an Internet broken by corporate control…

According to George Ou, policy director for Digital Society, a tech-policy-focused non-profit funded by tech-industry group Arts + Labs, the report, which places U.S. broadband performance in the middle of the pack, relies heavily on misleading and likely erroneous data.

For example, one metric ranks countries by fastest broadband speed offered by an incumbent provider. But the ranking relies on OECD reporting about the providers’ advertised rates, which aren’t always comparable across national borders. Residents of Japan, for instance, may have access to connections advertised at an ultra-fast 100 mbps, but, based on real-world usage data from Akamai, one of the web’s leading providers of data storage, those connections frequently deliver actual speeds far slower than advertised.

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The American economy stands at a precipice, as government bureaucrats threaten to gouge what remains of the free sector and plunge we the people into an inescapable abyss.

Neoliberals have lent their support to globalist elites, who intend to take out the American economy by tanking the US dollar. The will be a key topic on the table at tomorrow’s G20 meeting in Scotland.

Best-selling author Daniel Estulin states that the key issue to be discussed this week at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting, being held in St. Andrews, Scotland, is how to bring down the present world financial system through dumping the US dollar… Estulin says that the success or failure of this callous plan hinges on the ability of the US and UK representatives to convince the Russian, the Chinese and other national governments to go along with their scheme.

The plan is being buffered by traitorous Democrats who put $100 billion for the International Monetary Fund, which finances the G20, into a defense appropriations bill in June. One quarter of the quota was provided in gold, redistributing America’s wealth to poor nations.

Half of this gold has been sold to India, who acquired 200 metric tons from the IMF, worth roughly $6.7 billion.

Gold surged to a new record Tuesday as India’s decision to buy 200 metric tons of the precious metal from the International Monetary Fund fueled optimism that demand will remain robust.

The Reserve Bank of India, the country’s central bank, bought the gold last month, taking half the amount the IMF is seeking to sell…

It “takes a lot of potential supply off the market,” said Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital. “India is not buying that gold to sell it. It’s buying that gold to own it and keep it.”

Another example of liberals selling out the U.S. Treasury is a $1.5 billion deal, backed by the stimulus package, which has gone to a Chinese wind power firm.

China put up $1.5 billion for a 36,000-acre wind farm in Texas with the power to light up 180,000 homes…

Chinese wind turbine manufacturer A-Power Energy Generation Systems will begin shipping the 2.5-megawatt turbines in March, built in the company’s plant in the city of Shenyang…

The joint venture also plans to tap into U.S. stimulus funding for alternative energy, said Cappy McGarr, managing partner of U.S. Renewable Energy.

Financial analyst Peter Schiff, a Senate candidate in Connecticut, is a strong opponent of the federal manipulation of our economy. He has a firm understanding of the problems we face and is willing to take on the special interests who are protecting those entaglements.

Schiff is beginning to ramp up his campaign with more local stops in the state, where he takes on Federal Reserve puppet Chris Dodd, a friend of disgraced Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo.

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As the nation tries to repair the damage to its economy, the one proposed legislative remedy which would provide real financial transparency, HR 1207, a bill to Audit the Federal Reserve, has been gutted by Democratic Congressman Mel Watt.

Representative Ron Paul, the Texas Republican who has called for an end to the Federal Reserve, said legislation he introduced to audit monetary policy has been “gutted” while moving toward a possible vote in the Democratic-controlled House.

The bill, with 308 co-sponsors, has been stripped of provisions that would remove Fed exemptions from audits of transactions with foreign central banks, monetary policy deliberations, transactions made under the direction of the Federal Open Market Committee and communications between the Board, the reserve banks and staff, Paul said today…

Paul, a member of the House Financial Services Committee, said Mel Watt, a Democrat from North Carolina, has eliminated “just about everything” while preparing the legislation for formal consideration. Watt is chairman of the panel’s domestic monetary policy and technology subcommittee.

Watt has taken tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Federal Reserve primary dealers Citigroup, UBS, and Bank of America, the last of which is headquartered in his home district of Charlotte, North Carolina.

He has taken this political maneuver to enrich special interests despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans and Congressman support having the central bank’s books opened.

Recent polls have shown that more than 75 percent of Americans support efforts to audit the Fed, something which my bill, HR 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, aims to do. HR 1207 has the support of 304 members of Congress, and the Senate version of the bill, S. 604, is supported by 31 U.S. senators.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has embarked on an ambitious program of monetary expansion, more than doubling the monetary base to almost $1.9 trillion and doubling the size of its balance sheet to over $2 trillion, placing the American economy in a precarious position.

After shredding real reform, liberals are attempting to satisfy their thirst for power by ramming legislation to grow government through the House. This new measure which attempts to expand the central bank’s power is being sponsored by longtime Federal Reserve lackey Barney Frank, who chairs the Financial Services committee and receives political donations from a long list of fat-cat firms.

Using language that has got others into trouble before him, Timothy Geithner, US Treasury secretary, on Tuesday called financial regulatory reform “a just war” – words given substance by a legislative proposal unveiled the same day by Mr Geithner and Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee…

Instead of bringing accountability to the Federal Reserve, whose mismanagement and artificial suppression of interest rates caused the economy to collapse, Rep. Frank’s new law would expand the Fed’s power.

The landmark bill drawn up by the Treasury and the House financial services committee sets up a council of regulators charged with snuffing out systemic risks and gives the government and the Fed sweeping powers over financial companies at home and overseas.

Among those who gave Congressman Frank at least $10,000 during the last cycle are six elite New York Federal Reserve broker dealers including Bank of America, RBS, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Credit Suisse.

Frank’s approach is a standard one for political shills, who when faced with a problem caused by government attempt to blame it on others and grab more power.

Apparently the only time that liberals care about the Constitution is when it can twisted into an excuse to indoctrinate our children. In a recent interview, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke discussed how the 2010 census, and its accompanying federally created lesson plans will expose school kids to the process. Locke also mentions that the administration giving serious consideration to another stimulus package.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke talks with Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox about the possibility of a second economic stimulus package. Locke said President Barack Obama’s advisers are “seriously” considering proposing a second stimulus measure to boost the economy. He added that another stimulus would be “very targeted and specific and we need to be mindful of the deficit as well.” Locke also discusses the 2010 “Census in Schools” program.

Now we know how the administration plans to create 1 million jobs. The community organizer in chief will hire at least that many people to go door-to-door for the census.

The U.S. Census is supposed to be free of politics, but one group with a history of voter fraud, ACORN, is participating in next year’s count, raising concerns about the politicization of the decennial survey.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now signed on as a national partner with the U.S. Census Bureau in February 2009 to assist with the recruitment of the 1.4 million temporary workers needed to go door-to-door to count every person in the United States — currently believed to be more than 306 million people.

A U.S. Census “sell sheet,” an advertisement used to recruit national partners, says partnerships with groups like ACORN “play an important role in making the 2010 Census successful,” including by “helping recruit census workers.”

Concerns with the 2010 Census

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By not requiring participants to disclose where they were born, the census will attempt to validate the inclusion of 10 million illegal immigrants into estimates that 47 million people are without health insurance. This figure is being used as leverage to justify new health care legislation, for which there is no citizenship requirement.

• there are no immigration-related restrictions on who can participate President Obama’s proposed health insurance exchanges
• to qualify for any subsidies for health insurance, “individuals must be lawfully present in a state in the United States.” That does not preclude those in this country legally who have illegal immigrants in their family from qualifying for the subsidies.

These moves play into the long term liberal strategy of turning the children of illegal immigrants into Democrats by giving them government handouts. It also fits the ideology of leftist advisers appointed by the administration such as ‘Propaganda Czar’ Anita Dunn, an avowed Maoist.

Rand Paul has been gaining ground in the Kentucky Senate race, where his $1.1 million haul in the third quarter was nearly twice that of fellow candidate Trey Grayson.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul raised more than $1 million in the year’s third quarter, becoming the second candidate in the race to break the million-dollar mark during a three-month fundraising period…

[Grayson] raised nearly $602,000 during his first quarter of fundraising, while he was still exploring a Senate race. He and Paul both entered the race after Republican Sen. Jim Bunning announced July 27 that he would not seek another term.

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In an August poll by Survey USA, Paul was found to be within 11 points of Grayson. A general election match-up polled in October by Rasmussen found Paul leading the Democratic candidate Mongiardo by 5 points and statistically tied with the other contender, Conway.

Now with his fundraising momentum, Rand is poised to pass the Secretary of State. This has been made even more impressive by the fact that Paul’s donations have come from small donors, while Grayson has relied on the establishment circuit.

Trey is backed by Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, who voted in favor of the $700 billion bank bailout and has received political contributions from a slew of institutions that were given government aid. Firms including UBS, Citigroup, and JP Morgan Chase gave McConnell more than $65,000 each before being compensated up to $25 billion.

Clearly threatened by Paul’s campaign, the Grayson group has sent a spy to monitor his activities.

Grayson Campaign Spying on Rand

This is behaviour unbecoming of a public official. If Trey insists on running surveillance of political opponents before even getting elected, he cannot be trusted to protect the fourth amendment of our Consitution in Washington. There are already too many stories of ‘enemies lists’ coming out of DC.

The politicization of domestic security and intelligence entered the media spotlight last week when it was revealed that Congresswoman Jane Harman, who had sought the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee, was being subjected to an ethics investigation for influence peddling.

A House Democrat who once claimed to “live and breathe security” has been under investigation this year for allegedly promising to use her influence to gain leniency for two “pro-Israeli lobbyists” in exchange for support of her own effort to gain the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee, the Washington Post reported Friday.

Rep. Jane Harman, an eight-term member from Venice, California is one of 30 representatives and several aides being investigated by the House Ethics Committee on issues that include defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to the Post. She has come under the scrutiny of committee investigators due to wiretapped telephone conversations she had in 2005 with an “Israeli operative,” in which she allegedly offered to intervene on behalf of the accused lobbyists in exchange for help in getting the coveted committee chair. The Post did not identify the lobbyists or say what they were accused of, but a Los Angeles Times story earlier this year referred to reports that “Harman was heard on a wiretap speaking to a suspected Israeli agent about two AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) lobbyists accused of illegally passing classified information to foreign officials and reporters.”

Harman received $32,000 in political contributions from Northrop Grumman, which was then awarded a government intelligence contract of $430 million.

In our free society government officials should not be peddling influence, selling intelligence, and spying on their political opponents. Earlier this year, however, we saw the fourth amendment violated when patriotic veterans were ordered to be snooped on by bureaucrats.

The next front in the government’s war on the free sector is health care. As an eye doctor, Rand understands how onerous federal legislation can disrupt his practice and thus he believes in a capitalist approach which preserves the relationship between physician and patient.

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Constitutional conservative Jake Towne, a Chemical Engineer by trade, has a firm understanding of how the free market functions. However, he has been so disturbed by the federal manipulation of our economy that he has decided to put his career on pause in order to pursue the rectification of policies which are pushing our country towards tyranny. Thus, he is taking the fiscal fight from the 15th district of Pennsylvania to DC.

Jake appeared as a panel member Wednesday on Freedom Watch.

Financial Fiasco

Endorsed by the 9/12 project, Towne believes that in order to restore freedom to our nation we must have economic liberty. His goal as Congressman will be to reduce the power of government and restore it to the people. Jake will have an open office which is directly accountable to his constituents.

Through the use of a small donor base, he will not be beholden to the special interests which have poisoned Washington. An example of corruption was revealed this week as House members of an appropriations committee took more than $6 million in campaign contributions from the lobbying firm PMA Group in exchange for over $200 million in earmarks.

Perhaps the most serious case involves a defunct lobbying firm, PMA Group, and contributions it gave to House appropriators, who then pushed for earmarks in the military budget that benefited the firm’s clients. The list included seven members of the military appropriations subcommittee. Spokesmen for those members said they had all been contacted by the ethics committee about their earmarks for PMA clients.

The seven members, including Representative John P. Murtha, Democrat of Pennsylvania, received a total of more than $6.2 million in contributions from PMA and its clients since 1998, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. And in the last two years they inserted more than $200 million in military earmarks to PMA’s clients, according to a tally by Taxpayers for Common Sense, which tracks such items.

Another instance of reported foul play in Pennsylvania stemmed from a pension probe which ties contributions by the private equity firm Blackstone Group to Democratic Governor Ed Rendell. His state returned the favor in the form of $2.8 billion worth of pension investments through Blackstone, which took $129 million in management fees.

Gov. Edward Rendell received $11,000 in contributions during his 2002 and 2006 campaigns from Stephen Schwarzman, chairman of the private equity firm Blackstone Group. Pennsylvania’s governors appoint six of the state pension board’s 11 members. The state pension fund invested more than $2.8 billion with Blackstone from 1994 through 2007. Blackstone has earned $129 million in managemenmt fees.

One quarter of Pennsylvania’s pension investments were put into hedge funds, which led to losses of over $4 billion. This is expected to cost property owners in the state an average of over $550 each in higher taxes.

The next arena of pay to play politics promises to be health care, where nearly $1 trillion of the nation’s wealth being redistributed. For instance Congresswoman Anna Eschoo, a Democrat, has received more than $20,000 in campaign contributions from the world’s fourth largest biologics company, Johnson & Johnson. It was recompensated by an amendment introduced by Rep. Eschoo removing competition from generic drugmakers for up to 12 years. The measure is expected to cost taxpayers more than $100 billion over the next ten years.

A 2008 analysis by former Clinton Administration official Robert Shapiro, who has consulted for both biologics companies and their would-be generic competitors, suggested that generic versions of the top 12 categories of biologics whose patents have expired or will expire soon could save Americans up to $108 billion in the first 10 years and as much as $378 billion over two decades. “It’s the low-hanging fruit,” says Mark Merritt, head of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, the trade organization for prescription-drug-benefit managers. “If you can’t get this right on cost control, what can you get right?”

During an interview on the Radio Free Market radio show Jake discussed his ideas to provide real solutions to health care, which do not include socialized medicine.

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The sitting Congressman in Pennsylvania’s 15th district, Richard Dent, has legislated like a fiscal liberal. One example of this is his approval in July of nearly $50 billion for the State Dept to bailout countries throughout the world. Here are a few examples of what was contained in the bill:

• $2.2 Billion to finance the Israeli military
• $1.04 Billion to finance the Egyptian military
• $150 Million to finance the Jordan military
• $60 Million to finance the Colombian military
• $400.4 Million for “economic support” of the West Bank and Gaza
• $300 Million for “economic support” of Afghanistan

The question which Rep. Dent needs to answer is: where are you getting the money for these excursions? Why aren’t these countries forced to pay their own way? Where in the Constitution does it tell you to finance the globe? The budget deficit is already at $1.4 trillion, meaning the funding will either have to be borrowed or printed. The result is higher national debt and further devaluation of the dollar. It’s time to replace Rep. Dent with Jake Towne, a citizen who will not sell out his office to special interests.

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What are the consequences of giving a centralized government the authority to track every inch of your private property with the right to invade and search it without cause?

In the years leading up to the American Revolution, it was precisely this abuse of power by British imperialists which prompted the founding fathers to add the 4th amendment to the Constitution. It placed a judge who must be presented with probable cause between the hands of government and the property of private citizens.

When we were colonists, and the King and the Parliament needed money from us, and they always seemed to need money, they devised ingenious ways to tax us. One of them was called the Stamp Act. The Parliament decreed that every piece of paper that the Colonists had in their homes; every book, every document, every deed, every lease, every pamphlet, every poster to be nailed to a tree had to have the King’s stamp on it. You think going to a Post Office is bad? You had to go to a British Government office and buy a stamp with the King’s picture.

Question. How did the King know that his picture was on every piece of paper in your house? The Parliament enacted a hateful piece of legislation called the Writs of Assistance Act which let the king’s soldiers write their own search warrants, and bang down any door they chose to look for the stamps or anything else that they were looking for.

It was the last straw.

We fought a revolution. We won the revolution. We wrote the Constitution. The constitution doesn’t grant power, it keeps the government off our backs.

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The problem with not having to prove probable cause is that the government can target individuals for harassment without any justifiable reason. Take for example a 60 year old grandmother living in Texas who was raided by six SWAT agents for growing orchids in her backyard.

“You don’t need to know. You can’t know.” That’s what Kathy Norris, a 60-year-old grandmother of eight, was told when she tried to ask court officials why, the day before, federal agents had subjected her home to a furious search.

The agents who spent half a day ransacking Mrs. Norris’ longtime home in Spring, Texas, answered no questions while they emptied file cabinets, pulled books off shelves, rifled through drawers and closets, and threw the contents on the floor.

The six agents, wearing SWAT gear and carrying weapons, were with - get this- the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Kathy and George Norris lived under the specter of a covert government investigation for almost six months before the government unsealed a secret indictment and revealed why the Fish and Wildlife Service had treated their family home as if it were a training base for suspected terrorists. Orchids.

That’s right. Orchids.

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This legislation has become particularly dangerous in the hands of the current administration as it appears to be developing a habit of attacking political opponents in a manner which has been compared to Richard Nixon’s ‘enemies list’.

Now a U.S. senator from Tennessee, Alexander cited the Nixon team’s “open declaration of war upon anyone who seemed to disagree with administration policies.” He added, “we’re beginning to see symptoms of this same kind of animus developing in the Obama administration.”

Referring to a story in Politico, Alexander decried White House pushback against Fox News, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the insurance industry and certain Republican members of Congress (including Alexander, who has criticized the White House appointments of “czars”).

In April, the Department of Homeland Security declared that conservatives, or two-fifths of the country, were terrorists.

Now, progressives are aiming to expand government power further than ever before into the free market, under the auspices of the Patriot Act.

With groundwork laid by previous administrations, the Obama administration has now “assaulted economic liberties,” Napolitano said. A law signed by President Bush on the day after Saddam Hussein was arrested—the National Intelligence Act of 2004—redefined “financial institutions” to include far more than banks. A footnote defines hotels, restaurants, casinos, car dealers, libraries, computer companies, hospitals, doctors’ offices, lawyers’ offices and many more private organizations as “financial institutions.”

The Obama administration is using this provision to regular private contracts, in violation of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, if the government decides that an organization is so large that its failure may affect “liquidity”—the movement of cash in the marketplace.

An Unpatriotic Attack on Liberty

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank have declared war on economic liberty while introducing new legislation to expand market control through the Federal Reserve.

Using language that has got others into trouble before him, Timothy Geithner, US Treasury secretary, on Tuesday called financial regulatory reform “a just war” – words given substance by a legislative proposal unveiled the same day by Mr Geithner and Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. The sweeping powers it grants the government – presumably those Mr Geithner wishes it had had during the financial paralysis last year – are what give the bill both its strengths and its weaknesses.

Under the law, no company engaged in financial activities would be able to hide from a new Financial Services Oversight Council. It would be empowered to seek all information it needs to determine whether an entity or an activity has systemic significance for overall financial stability. It would subject systemically important institutions – banks or non-banks – to potentially draconian requirements to mitigate risk to the financial system.

The proposed legislation would give the same agency which refuses to disclose where it placed $2 trillion of our nation’s wealth and is plunging us into bankruptcy the power to oversee and shutdown businesses in the private sector at their discretion.

The Federal Reserve could order a financial institution to sell a risky division or stop dangerous trading activity if the central bank determined there was a threat to the US financial system, under a draft law released on Tuesday.

The landmark bill drawn up by the Treasury and the House financial services committee sets up a council of regulators charged with snuffing out systemic risks and gives the government and the Fed sweeping powers over financial companies at home and overseas…

But the draft law goes further than expected – allowing the Fed to require any systemically significant company to “sell or otherwise transfer assets or off-balance sheet items to unaffiliated firms, to terminate one or more activities, or to impose conditions on the manner in which the identified financial holding company conducts one or more activities”.

Our businesses should not be treated like terrorists. We do not want a pay czar or a federal bureau controlling contracts in the private sector. Further, we should not be giving expanded powers to the same governmentally created institution which caused the financial crisis by artificially suppressing interest rates, expanding cheap credit, and creating moral hazard throughout the system.

David Ratowitz is a patriot who after completing his commitment in the Army launched a successful property management career in the private sector. He has been disturbed, however, by the mad dash towards tyranny which the denizens in the District of Columbia have taken. Thus, he’s pledged to serve the people of the 5th district of Illinois by standing to fight beside them at freedom’s gate.

Hard-fought professional achievement, personal resilience and a genuine free market outlook uniquely qualify David Ratowitz for service as a statesman representing the citizens of Illinois’ 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

David was raised in south suburban Hazel Crest, attending Homewood-Flossmoor Community High School. He went on to study Anthropology at the University of Iowa on an Army ROTC scholarship, graduating as the Distinguished Military Graduate with a BA degree in 1992.

Continuing a proud family tradition of military service, David entered active duty and graduated from U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger Schools. He served as an officer in the 82nd Airborne and 2nd Infantry Divisions from 1992 to 1997 while stationed in Korea, Fort Bragg, NC, and deployed to Haiti. He was honorably discharged in 1997 with the rank of Captain, Field Artillery.

The 5th Congressional seat from Illinois was previously occupied by Rahm Emanuel, the current White House Chief of Staff. Rahm brought with him a Chicago Mob style approach to Washington politics. Emanuel prescribes to the radical viewpoint that the problems of the nation are not wounds which should tended to, but an opportunity to exploit and shake citizens down during a moment of weakness.

Rahm Emanuel – Never let a crisis go to waste

In contrast to his rhetoric on transparency, Rahm Emanuel is heading a closed-door negotiation to write the final version of health care legislation. It consists of a small, elite group with only three Senators and a horde of appointed administration officials.

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) sits at the head of a wooden table at his office as he and  Sens. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and  Max Baucus (D-Mont.) work to merge two competing versions of health-care legislation into one bill. The three men will be joined by top aides as well as by members of President Obama’s health-care team, led by White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. The sessions started on Wednesday and could be completed this week.

The group will make such key decisions as whether to include a government-run insurance plan designed to compete with private insurance companies…

“This bill is being written in the dark of night,” said House  Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), adding that “the president ought to keep his promise to the American people and open this process up.”

Media Pushed out of Health Care Meeting

A primary figure at the table is Rahm’s brother, the ‘Rationing Czar’ Ezekiel Emanuel.

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, health adviser to President Barack Obama, is under scrutiny. As a bioethicist, he has written extensively about who should get medical care, who should decide, and whose life is worth saving. Dr. Emanuel is part of a school of thought that redefines a physician’s duty, insisting that it includes working for the greater good of society instead of focusing only on a patient’s needs. Many physicians find that view dangerous, and most Americans are likely to agree…

In the Lancet, Jan. 31, 2009, Dr. Emanuel and co-authors presented a “complete lives system” for the allocation of very scarce resources, such as kidneys, vaccines, dialysis machines, intensive care beds, and others. “One maximizing strategy involves saving the most individual lives, and it has motivated policies on allocation of influenza vaccines and responses to bioterrorism… Other things being equal, we should always save five lives rather than one.

“However, other things are rarely equal—whether to save one 20-year-old, who might live another 60 years, if saved, or three 70-year-olds, who could only live for another 10 years each—is unclear.” In fact, Dr. Emanuel makes a clear choice: “When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get changes that are attenuated.

A confluence of events seems to be occurring as the president declares a national emergency over the swine flu just as his crew finishes up their secret health legislation. This is despite the fact that infection levels appear to be waning. Legitimate or not, we can expect that Rahm and his brother the ‘Rationing Czar’ will not let the crisis go to waste.

Ezekiel Emanuel is just one of dozens of unelected czars occupying the White House, including an avowed communist who resigned amid controversy.

Company He Keeps

Emanuel was wrapped up in last year’s indictment of disgraced former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich for attempting to arrange a $2 million local grant in return for a political favor from another of Rahm’s brothers, Hollywood superagent Ari Emanuel.

Emanuel wanted answers. Funds from a $2 million state grant to a school in his congressional district had not arrived, so he went straight to the man in charge: Gov. Rod Blagojevich. For four successive days in 2006, then-Rep. Emanuel called for Blagojevich, with one message noting it was about the Chicago Academy, according to thousands of pages of call logs reviewed by The Associated Press…

Prosecutors claim Blagojevich learned the congressman was inquiring about the school and hatched a scheme to squeeze Emanuel, now President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, to get his Hollywood superagent brother to hold a fundraiser for him in exchange for releasing the school funds.

The school eventually got its money and no fundraiser was held. But Ari Emanuel shows up on the governor’s call logs for the first time 2 ½ weeks after the state issued the final payment to the school.

In December, Emanuel gave Blagojevich a list of ‘acceptable candidates’ to replace the president’s vacant Senate seat.

Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama’s pick to be White House chief of staff, had conversations with Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s administration about who would replace Obama in the U.S. Senate, the Tribune has learned…

Blagojevich and John Harris, his former chief of staff, face federal charges in an alleged shakedown involving the vacant Senate seat, which Illinois law grants the governor sole authority to fill.

The administration’s street level mob tactics, led by Rahm Emanuel, are making a mockery of our government. Under the mantra of ‘fiscal crisis’, they are shoveling the fruits of our labor away to special interests at a record pace.

The U.S. federal deficit is at an all-time high–$1.42 trillion for fiscal year 2009, which ended Sept. 30.

This figure is actually less than the administration’s planned deficit. Contrary to standard Democrat talking points, this debt-driven approach is plunging the country deeper into fiscal crisis. Their model is FDR’s New Deal, which kept unemployment in double figures for over a decade. A wiser course would be to follow the actions of Warren Harding, who helped revive the country from the depression of 1920 in only one year by trimming government.

Escaping the Recession

Harding had a much better understanding of how an economy works than FDR. As historian Robert K. Murray wrote in The Harding Era, the man who would become our 29th president “always decried high taxes, government waste, and excessive governmental interference in the private sector of the economy. In February 1920, shortly after announcing his candidacy, he advocated a cut in government expenditures and stated that government ought to ’strike the shackles from industry. . . . We need vastly more freedom than we do regulation.’ ”

One of Harding’s campaign slogans was “less government in business,” and it served him well. Harding embraced the advice of Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon and called for tax cuts in his first message to Congress on April 12, 1921. The highest taxes, on corporate revenues and “excess” profits, were to be cut. Personal income taxes were to be left as is, with a top rate of 8 percent of incomes above $4,000. Harding recognized the crucial importance of encouraging the investment that is essential for growth and jobs, something that FDR never did.

The Constitutionally conservative veteran David Ratowitz, a former Army Ranger, will bring true fiscal accountability and transparency to Washington. Unlike the liberal imposters who posed as budget hawks and then transferred our nation’s wealth out the back door, David will drive down the deficit with the same discipline which has brought him success in the private sector. He will give Chicago residents the opportunity to replace a cog in the political machine, freshman Dem. Mike Quigley, with a true patriot.

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John Dennis, a free market advocate who founded a successful office design company, has clearly recognized the threat to our economy which has been manifested by the left and the leadership of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Thus, he has decided to directly challenge her by entering the Congressional race in the 8th district of California.

John Dennis, an accomplished businessman and entrepreneur, has been a pro-liberty Republican for a quarter century.

Born in Jersey City, the son of a longshoreman and a city hall clerk, he grew up in one of the city’s toughest public housing projects.

After graduating from Fordham University with a degree in business administration, John co-founded Humanscale, which became one of the world’s top 10 design firms, specializing in office ergonomics.

Freedom Watch – John Dennis interview

The Constitutionally conservative Dennis is taking on an opponent who believes that any question concerning our country’s founding document is ‘not serious’.

CNSNews.com: “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?”

Pelosi: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”

CNSNews.com: “Yes, yes I am.”

Pelosi then shook her head before taking a question from another reporter. Her press spokesman, Nadeam Elshami, then told CNSNews.com that asking the speaker of the House where the Constitution authorized Congress to mandated that individual Americans buy health insurance as not a “serious question.”

“You can put this on the record,” said Elshami. “That is not a serious question. That is not a serious question.”

Liberals such as Pelosi scoff at the idea that legislation should somehow be related to the rule of law, which is based upon our Constitution. Instead, she sees her position as a vehicle to gain power through the exchange of handouts and political contributions.

Under Nancy’s watch, California has been shaken to its core by the loss of $100 billion from its state pension funds, a burden which could push the 8th largest economy in the world into bankruptcy.

California’s two huge government pension funds reported whopping annual losses today of about one-quarter of their portfolios.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest in the nation, today posted a preliminary drop of $56.2 billion for the fiscal year ended June 30. The second-ranked fund, the State Teachers’ Retirement System, reported a preliminary loss of $43.4 billion.

At the root of the problem are corrupt placement agents, who swiped huge fees from the state while saddling its taxpayers with billions in bad investments.

America’s largest public-pension fund, Calpers, revealed that a former board member had reaped more than $50 million in fees for arranging investments that could saddle state taxpayers with hundreds of millions of dollars in losses…

The disclosure stands to embarrass Calpers, a longtime champion of good corporate governance. It also promises to cast the fund even deeper into conflict in California, because the burden of Calpers’s soured investments stands to fall flatly on taxpayers who are already reeling from a huge state budget deficit and steep unemployment…

Calpers’s disclosure also renews questions over the role of the middlemen who collect fees from private-equity firms, hedge funds and other investment firms eager to manage a slice of these vast public assets.

Nancy ‘The Nepotist’ Pelosi has used her nephew Laurence to swindle millions from CalPERS, the California Public Employees Retirement System, through the homebuilder Lennar, Laurence’s former employer.

In an email to the San Francisco Bay View, Laurence Pelosi verified that he was a Lennar senior executive in March of 2004 at the time San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, his cousin for whom he had served as mayoral campaign treasurer, had signed the Hunters Point Shipyard Conveyance Agreement at the behest of Laurence’s Aunt Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

On the Edge

- Pelosi CalPERS Scandal (starts at 3:30)

MacFarlane Partners, which had been an investment adviser for CalPERS , resigned from the pension fund due to scrutiny. The company was involved in a deal with Lennar, managed by Laurence Pelosi, which lost nearly $1 billion for the state.

The real estate investment manager who led the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the nation’s largest pension fund, into a money-losing land venture has resigned as an adviser to the fund, a spokeswoman for MacFarlane Partners said on Saturday…

MacFarlane Partners Inc is a real estate investment management firm in San Francisco that manages $10 billion in assets for some of the world’s largest pension plans and institutions, according to its website.

The firm came under fire for a $970 million investment it managed for Calpers into LandSource Communities Development LLC, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

After sticking California taxpayers with the tab, Laurence Pelosi left Lennar and joined Morgan Stanley, where he managed the sale of the distressed property.

Calpers put more than $1 billion in the urban program. MacFarlane also helped the pension fund pay $970 million in cash and property to Lennar Corp. for a stake in LandSource Communities Development LLC in January 2007. The 15,000-acre (6,000-hectare) tract north of Los Angeles, known as Newhall Ranch, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June 2008 after failing to restructure debt…

REIT Newshound, an industry newsletter, first reported yesterday that Calpers replaced MacFarlane with Stockbridge Real Estate Funds, another San Francisco investment firm, citing an unnamed person. A Stockbridge spokesman wasn’t immediately available for comment today.

Calpers last year said it had hired Morgan Stanley to review land deals it made with joint-venture partners and real- estate advisers, including the LandSource project. LandSource owned more than 50 development communities with more than 33,000 homesites at the end of 2007, according to court records.

Morgan Stanley is among the top 20 contributors to House Speaker Pelosi. Under the management of her nephew, the firm purchased over 11,000 properties from Laurence’s former employer Lennar for less than half of the orignial value.

In 2004, Congresswoman Pelosi helped secure an $82 million dollar federal deal for Lennar. The land was given by San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom for the nominal sum of one dollar.

Lennar, the Florida-based conglomerate, is the number one home builder in America. It boasts a portfolio of about $1.3 billion, yet was able to purchase one of four parcels of the Naval Shipyard from the city for $1 and with the aid of Mayor Newsom, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who received $82 million from the defense budget to help with the clean up.

The agreement was negotiated by several leading liberals including Congressman John Murtha, Mayor Willie Brown, and Senator Barbara Boxer.

The agreement came a few weeks after the Navy sent Newsom a letter saying that it was having doubts about going ahead with an agreement that was announced with great fanfare in Washington in January 2002 by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, then-Mayor Willie Brown and Navy Secretary Gordon England.

When he was in Washington last Wednesday, Newsom met in the Capitol offices of Pelosi, the House minority leader, with Pelosi, Navy Assistant Secretary Hansford T. Johnson, representatives of California Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, and Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., a big gun brought in by Pelosi to convince the Navy the time for delays had passed.

Murtha, the powerful ranking Democrat on the House military appropriations subcommittee, made it clear to the Navy that he wanted a binding agreement signed by Wednesday. Another meeting was held in Pelosi’s offices Wednesday, minus Newsom, and the Navy signed the accord.

The time has come to kick Nancy ‘The Nepotist’ out of Washington. We must replace her with a citizen who truly believes that the Constitution is the basis of our law and not a hurdle which must be leapt to achieve power.

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It was reported on Wednesday that the swine flu figures since July have been entirely fabricated, since the Center for Disease Control instructed states at that time to stop testing for H1N1. Prior to the ban, they found that more than 80% of the referred cases did not turn out to be swine flu.

If you’ve been diagnosed “probable” or “presumed” 2009 H1N1 or “swine flu” in recent months, you may be surprised to know this: odds are you didn’t have H1N1 flu.

In fact, you probably didn’t have flu at all. That’s according to state-by-state test results obtained in a three-month-long CBS News investigation…

In late July, the CDC abruptly advised states to stop testing for H1N1 flu, and stopped counting individual cases. The rationale given for the CDC guidance to forego testing and tracking individual cases was: why waste resources testing for H1N1 flu when the government has already confirmed there’s an epidemic?

State health officials were angered at the unilateral decision by the federal agency to halt tracking the virus.

Some public health officials privately disagreed with the decision to stop testing and counting, telling CBS News that continued tracking of this new and possibly changing virus was important because H1N1 has a different epidemiology, affects younger people more than seasonal flu and has been shown to have a higher case fatality rate than other flu virus strains.

CBS News learned that the decision to stop counting H1N1 flu cases was made so hastily that states weren’t given the opportunity to provide input. Instead, on July 24, the Council for State and Territorial Epidemiologists, CSTE, issued the following notice to state public health officials on behalf of the CDC:

“Attached are the Q&As that will be posted on the CDC website tomorrow explaining why CDC is no longer reporting case counts for novel H1N1. CDC would have liked to have run these by you for input but unfortunately there was not enough time before these needed to be posted.”

Despite the lack of real data, drug and vaccine manufacturers are anticipating tens of billions in potential profits from a swine flu outbreak. Thus, they have been peppering politicians with contributions to gain favor for government contracts.

For instance Roche, the maker of the antiviral treatment Tamiflu, made donations of $20,000 to Florida Senate candidate Kendrick Meek, $50,000 to Senator Chris Dodd, and over $100,000 to Senator John McCain. AstraZeneca, the manufacturer of FluMist, has contributed $25,000 to Senator Arlen Specter and over $50,000 to Senator Max Baucus. GlaxoSmithKline, producer of the vaccine Arepanrix, gave $60,000 to Senator Mitch McConnell.

A major pitfall for the vaccines is the compressed time schedule with which they are being rushed to market. Those who are considering taking the drug should proceed with caution and seek the advice of a licensed physician, since it has been reported in Europe that neurologists have concerns over its safety.

A warning that the new swine flu jab is linked to a deadly nerve disease has been sent by the Government to senior neurologists in a confidential letter.

The letter from the Health Protection Agency, the official body that oversees public health, has been leaked to The Mail on Sunday, leading to demands to know why the information has not been given to the public before the vaccination of millions of people, including children, begins.

It tells the neurologists that they must be alert for an increase in a brain disorder called Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), which could be triggered by the vaccine.

A swine flu vaccine distributed in 1976 caused 500 people to develop GBS and resulted in the death of 25 people.

The episode began in February 1976, when an Army recruit at Ft. Dix, N.J., fell ill and died from a swine flu virus thought to be similar to the 1918 strain. Several other soldiers at the base also became ill. Shortly thereafter, Wenzel and his colleagues reported two cases of the flu strain in Virginia.

“That raised the concern that the original cluster at Ft. Dix had spread beyond New Jersey,” said Wenzel, former president of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.

At the CDC, Sencer solicited the opinions of infectious disease specialists nationwide and, in March, called on President Ford and Congress to begin a mass inoculation. The $137-million program began in early October, but within days reports emerged that the vaccine appeared to increase the risk for Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological condition that causes temporary paralysis but can be fatal…

More than 500 people are thought to have developed Guillain-Barre syndrome after receiving the vaccine and 25 died. No one completely understands what causes Guillain-Barre in certain people, but the condition can develop after a bout with infection or following surgery or vaccination. The federal government paid millions in damages to people who developed the condition or their families.

60 Minutes – 1976 Swine Flu Scare

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Doctors have been urged to keep watch for any outbreaks of GBS in the current crop of vaccines.

It is not known for sure whether the vaccine or the flu was responsible and the current H1N1 swine flu jabs due to be introduced in October are very different to the version used thirty years ago, Government scientists have said.

However specialist doctors here are being urged to report every case of Guillain-Barre syndrome to the Health Protection Agency so the circumstances of each patient can be investigated.

Meanwhile the Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, has been aggressively pimping the swine flu vaccine to Americans.

Said Sebelius: “There’s no question the disease is out there, which is why today we’re rolling out PSAs (public service announcements) … to make sure people take steps to help prevent the spread of the disease, and in the meantime we will push the vaccine out as quickly as we get it off the production lines.”

Appearing on CBS’s “The Early Show,” she said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the President’s Advisory Committee on Immunizations have identified five target populations: pregnant women, health care workers, children with underlying health conditions ages 6 months to 24 years, older Americans with underlying health conditions.

“That’s a lot of people,” Sebelius said. “That’s about half the population.”

“By the end of this week,” she added,”we’ll begin to have injectable vaccine also available. We’re dealing with five production companies. That’s very good news. But the vaccine will become available as the lines clear up. So as soon as we have any vaccine available, we’re pushing it out to 90,000 sites around the country. The early going is a little bumpy but we’ll have a good supply by October.”

Behind the scenes, however, the HHS Secretary has granted legal immunity to drug makers in case another bout of GBS breaks out.

The document signed by Sebelius last month grants immunity to those making a swine flu vaccine, under the provisions of a 2006 law for public health emergencies. It allows for a compensation fund, if needed.

The government takes such steps to encourage drug companies to make vaccines, and it’s worked. Federal officials have contracted with five manufacturers to make a swine flu vaccine.

Understandably, more than one-third of parents will instruct those conducting school vaccination programs to stay away from their kids.

Some parents say they are concerned about side effects from the new vaccine… the mother of a 5-year-old boy named Emmett, says the vaccine is too new and too untested.

“I will not be first in line in October to get him vaccinated,” she said in an interview last month. “We’re talking about putting an unknown into him. I can’t do that.”

The AP poll found that 38 percent of parents said they were unlikely to give permission for their kids to be vaccinated at school.

Doctor Refuses to Give Vaccine to His Kids

Woman Crippled from Flu Vaccination

In August, a Marine Corp. veteran living in Washington loudly expressed his displeasure with his Congressman’s approval of a measure which threatens to impose the will of immoral bureaucrats upon his children.

I swear to defend my constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Now I heard you say tonight about educating our children, indoctrinating our children, whatever you want to call it. Stay away from my kids. I also heard you say that you’re going to let us keep our health insurance. Well, thank you. It’s not your right to decide whether or not I keep my plan or not. What I want to know is as a marine, as a disabled veteran that served this country, I’ve kept my oath. Do you ever intend to keep yours?

Fox and Friends

Hannity

Following the episode, David Hedrick decided to join the ranks of the rapidly expanding faction of Constitutional conservatives fighting to restore our freedom. He pledged to serve the people of the 3rd district of Washington by taking the conflict to Congress. His platform on health care directly opposes the socialist constrictions espoused by his political opponent.

When looking to curb the rising cost of healthcare, we must not forget the historical lessons of the past. Government run health care systems have been tried all over the world and they all have one thing in common. They all failed their supposed beneficiaries.

While searching for solutions, we must not forget that most of the problems with our current health care system are in fact, government created and/or facilitated problems.

Costs in health care could be easily reined in by:

• Ending government restrictions that prevent insurance companies from competing across state borders.
• Ending the abusive practice of limitless non-economic lawsuit claims by trial lawyers, who in exchange provide politicians with generous campaign contributions.
• Ending government practices that act to prevent health insurance plans from being purchased by individuals in favor of employer driven plans that reduce competition.

Another major issue which incited David’s run for Congress is the abadonment of fiscal discipline in our nation’s capitol.

Our elected representatives on the national stage have abandoned any pretense of fiscal responsibility. Instead, they are behaving like teenagers with their parent’s credit card. They demand increased taxes at every turn and all the while, they write checks that the treasury department can’t afford to cash. Our nation does not have an earnings problem.  It has a spending problem. As it now stands, the word trillion is common place when referring to our nation’s debts. In spite of this, today’s politicians insanely demand that the cure is yet more Federal spending.

This egregious debt accumulation borders on criminal conduct, as it robs future generations of Americans and destroys their hopes of prosperity. Our children and grandchildren have done nothing to deserve being enslaved to a debt brought about by this government’s largess. It is time to reign-in out of control government spending. We must adopt the same strategy that so many families in this nation have adopted, to get out from under their own burdensome debt. If we can’t afford it, we don’t buy it.

Hedrick is pro-life, a strong proponent for gun rights, and believes that federal government should be limited to its role as defined in our Constitution. He has been endorsed by the 9/12 project.

9/12 Speech

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Confirming an earlier report that foreign countries are looking to withdraw from the US dollar, Russia and China are considering a bilateral oil and gas deal using the ruble and yuan.

Russia is ready to consider using the Russian and Chinese national currencies instead of the dollar in bilateral oil and gas dealings, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday…

The Russian prime minister said the issue would be addressed among others at a meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) finance ministers, who are to convene before the end of the year in Kazakhstan.

Britain’s Independent newspaper reported last Tuesday that Russian officials had held “secret meetings” with Arab states, China and France on ending the use of the U.S. dollar in international oil trade.

The move was not the first by a foreign industrialized country to discuss ditching the dollar. In March, the governor of China’s central bank, Zhou Xiaochuan, suggested using the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights to supplant the greenback.

China’s central bank governor has issued a bold proposal to overhaul the global monetary system and one day replace the dollar as the world’s main reserve currency with the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Special Drawing Rights.

Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of China, argued that what he called a super-sovereign reserve currency would not only eliminate the risks inherent in currencies such as the dollar, which are backed only by the credit of the issuing country and not by gold or silver, but would also make it possible to manage global liquidity.

Shockingly, US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner expressed support for the proposal.

Geithner, at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the U.S. is “open” to a headline-grabbing proposal by the governor of the China’s central bank, which was widely reported as being a call for a new global currency to replace the dollar…

[Zhou Xiaochuan is] a very thoughtful, very careful distinguished central banker. I generally find him sensible on every issue,” Geithner said, saying that however his interpretation of the proposal was to increase the use of International Monetary Fund’s special drawing rights…

The continued use of the dollar as a reserve currency, he added, “depends… on how effective we are in the United States.”

The statement alone sent the value of the dollar tumbling.

The U.S. dollar fell against major currencies after U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he was open to expanding the use of the International Monetary Fund’s special drawing rights.

Investors initially interpreted his remarks as an endorsement of China’s proposal on Monday to eventually replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency by the IMF’s SDRs.

Liberal Democrats have made backroom deals pledging hundreds of billions in US taxpayer dollars to prop up the International Monetary Fund as our own currency nosedives. $100 billion for the fund was slipped into a defense spending bill earlier this year, after Geithner promised at the April G-20 meeting in London to provide up to half a trillion dollars.

Geithner welcomed contributions made so far but stressed that “significant progress (on getting the additional 500 billion US dollars) … must be an important outcome of these meetings.”

President Barack Obama’s administration, he said, has made a commitment to seek Congressional approval for 100 billion US dollars and he urged other member states “to consider substantial additional contributions.”

The US and other developed countries also pledged at the G-20 summit to sell hundreds of tons of gold, which had been used to support national currencies, to raise funds for poorer nations.

Leaders from the Group of 20 nations Thursday endorsed the International Monetary Fund’s plan to sell 403 tons of gold to raise funds to support the world’s poorest countries…

Most of the IMF’s gold holdings come from the fund’s member countries, which are required to commit 25% of their quota in gold.

Worse still, the US is appeasing foreign marxist nations such as Brazil and China by handing over an increasing share of voting rights and the power to conduct a ‘peer review’ over the American economy.

The Group of 20 nations is close to an agreement that would require members to subject their economic policies to a type of “peer review,” according to several senior G-20 officials, in a shift that would expose the U.S. and China to broad scrutiny of the way they run their economies…

The initiative was pressed by U.S. President Barack Obama, but it satisfied the demands on Brazil, China, India and other large developing countries.

Author Jerome Corsi believes that the dealmaking is a deliberate effort to usurp economic control from the US and redistribute our wealth to the world’s poor in a ‘global new deal’.

We had a new deal under Franklin Roosevelt, which was redistribution of wealth in the United States, creating all these massive social welfare programs. Now it’s internationally going on where groups like the U.N., other groups, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund. They want to redistribute U.S. wealth to the world…

And the whole issue is that if the International Monetary Fund is going to — or the United Nations or the World Bank say we’ve got to have more voting control from the third world. We’ve got to level the U.S. economy. We’ve got to make sure the U.S. plays by these international rules when — every time the president goes to these G-20 meetings…

And this attack is going on. Now even the Obama administration has endorsed the plan to use the International Monetary Funds special drawing rights as an alternative to the dollar in international trade.

China has advanced this plan. Russia has advanced it. And President Obama at the G-20 meeting in London in April signed the agreements that we are going to put $250 billions into the special drawing rights of the International Monetary Fund.

Hannity – Jerome Corsi interview on ‘America for Sale’

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Constitutional conservative Robert Broadus, a Navy veteran, is running for Congress in the 4th district of Maryland. He is strongly opposed to nationalized healthcare and voiced his discontent with Senator Ben Cardin at a Town Hall this summer.

Audience members could offer questions on cards that were passed out as they entered the Prince George’s County Community College Student Center, or they could line up at microphones to offer them in person.

Perhaps the most controversial, came from Robert Broadus of Clinton, Maryland, an audience member who had lost his job and replaced it with one that paid him far less money.

“I decided not to get the health insurance. That’s working out for me because I’m able to save that extra money and give it to my family members and use it on myself. Senator Cardin, I want to know are you going to tell me an individual…that I have to buy health care or else you’re going to fine me $2,500 every year I don’t get it? Our founding fathers assured us we have a Bill of Rights and I want to see you uphold that,” Broadus said in an increasingly emotional voice and to scattered applause.

In accordance with the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the ability to provide healthcare is a power reserved to the States and the People. While it is clear that many of Maryland’s citizens are unhappy with the quality of healthcare they are receiving, this is a result of poor performance on the parts of the Governor, the Legislature, and the county governments. A proper fix to this situation would be to identify incumbent politicians who have perpetuated the State’s healthcare problems and vote them out of office, replacing them with legislators who have productive ideas about how to bring more money into the State and who can work with area hospitals to improve the process of providing healthcare.

Naitonalized Healthcare is not a viable solution. Everywhere that Universal Healthcare has been attempted, it has failed or bankrupted the State, including Massachusetts, Oregon, and Hawaii. It would be a horrible economic mistake to try to implement a medical plan that has proven to be failure everywhere it has been tried on the entriety of the nation. Furthermore, in order to allow for the system to pay for those who do not work, mandatory participation would be required. Like Social Security and Medicare, this would be Unconstitutional and would violate the 13th Amendment.

Broadus disagrees with the sitting Congresswoman, Donna Edwards, over her interpretation of our country’s founding document.

Congresswoman Donna Edwards (MD-4) answers a question about the Constitution and states there are “responsibilities that government has to its citizenry that are not spelled out…in the Constitution.” Is this how she interprets the Supreme Law of the Land? As a document where powers can be read in that are not “spelled out” by its authors? Is this how we should interpret all our laws? Is this the kind of person we can trust to uphold & defend the Constitution? The answer is, “no.”

Robert attended tea parties to protest the wreckless sloth which is consuming Washington D.C.

Hundreds of Thousands of people gathered all across the nation to celebrate Independence Day in a show of patriotism and to protest the wreckless, excessive spending being done by the nation’s leaders in Washington, DC. As the original American Revolution was fought over the issue of unjust taxes, today are we enjoined again in a struggle against a tyrannical government bent on taxing us to death. Neither our Senators, our Representatives in Congress, nor the President has listened to us, passing numerous “stimulus” bills which have failed to create jobs, have destroyed prosperity, and have increased the tax burden on all working Americans. All of this spending violates the Constitution and harms the American People by promising payment on a debt owed by this generation as well as by countless generations yet to be born. A direct tax on incomes violate our 5th and 14th Amendment rights to property and create the false appearance that the nation is able to manage its financial responsibilities. Yet looking at our ever-expanding national debt, it is clear that the nation is fiscally irresponsible and is incapable of settling its liabilities. The proper solution can only be reached by reducing spending and taking the tax burden off of the American people by repealing the 16th Amendment.

Broadus has the endorsement of the president of the Family Research Council, Tony Perkins. He strongly opposes any legislation that changes the traditional definition of marriage, which inevitably leads to the demoralization of our children.

It should be crystal clear that the tactics of the Democratic Party and the Left are ruthless, godless, and irreverent. Our rights are being stripped away, and any who dissent are methodically destroyed. A woman like Sarah Palin or Carrie Prejean who speaks for her God and her faith is a threat to them, to be subjected to endless scorn and shamed into silence. Any Blacks who oppose the Socialist-Atheist agenda of the Democrats are either branded as “Uncle Toms” or are physically threatened… Those among us who wish to keep our nation strong and preserve our rights should band together and work for the cause of freedom by ensuring that in the next election and all elections to come, we make our voices heard in government. It’s time to stop lying down and letting others who don’t share our values decide how our nation will be governed.

Broadus also has the support of Dick Heller, who won a historic victory at the Supreme Court against the District of Columbia for the right to bear arms.

The Supreme Court’s historic decision carving out an individual right to gun ownership immediately cast doubt on gun restrictions nationwide, as firearms-rights advocates prepared to file a new round of lawsuits testing the scope of the ruling…

[The] case was brought by Dick Heller, a security guard who wanted a handgun in his Washington, D.C., home for self-defense. Heller had been turned down by D.C. officials under the city’s 1976 ban on handguns in the home.

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As the administration’s impotent fiscal policies drive an increasing number of investors overseas, Americans have been losing their jobs and their homes at a record rate.

U.S. foreclosure filings climbed to a record in the third quarter as lenders seized more properties from delinquent borrowers, according to RealtyTrac Inc.

A total of 937,840 homes received a default or auction notice or were repossessed by banks, a 23 percent increase from a year earlier, the Irvine, California-based seller of default data said today in a report. One out of every 136 U.S. households received a filing, the highest quarterly rate in records dating to January 2005.

“The problem is prime loans going into foreclosure and people being underwater and losing their jobs,” Richard Green, director of the Lusk Center for Real Estate at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, said in an interview. “It’s a really bad number.”

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Ironically, as more people than ever are being forced out of their homes, the central bank is propping up housing prices by printing money and pushing it through federal agencies such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The Federal Reserve bought $170 million of two-year notes sold yesterday by Fannie Mae, the quickest purchase after issuance of benchmark bonds from the company or similar institutions since the central bank began acquiring so-called agency debt.

The purchase was part of $2.6 billion of buying today, the New York Fed said on its Web site. The central bank listed the notes among ones it would accept bids for yesterday, about 90 minutes after Washington-based Fannie Mae announced the results of its $5 billion sale in a statement.

The Fed last month said it would begin buying “on-the- run” agency debt, or the most recently issued notes in different maturities. It has purchased $136.3 billion of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or Federal Home Loan Bank bonds since December, according to data complied by Bloomberg.

The result is that property prices are prevented from falling to a figure that people can afford. This is perpetuated by cheap government credit which allows underqualified borrowers to take out loans.

Loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) have become “the new subprime,” and these loans are exposing taxpayers to the same kinds of soaring default rates and losses that brought down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as well as destroyed many banks and the private market for mortgage loans.

While private lenders learned a lesson from the mortgage crisis and are shying away from easy-money loans, the FHA has stepped into the breach. The agency has provided backing for 37 percent of all mortgages used to buy homes this year.

Wages are approaching an 18 year low, the dollar is losing value, as evidenced by the inverse rise in gold, and the economy is entering a period of stagflation similar to what occurred in the late 70’s under the Carter administration.

“We essentially are printing money. Quantitative easing is debasing our currency,” he says.

“Congress is spending like drunken sailors. The investigator general for TARP has stated that it’s possible that the cost to the American taxpayer for all the bailouts, backstops, guarantees, etc. could exceed $23 trillion.”

That picture isn’t too pretty. “We’ve never seen anything like this in our history,” Tice says.

Of course what’s bad for the economy and financial markets is good for gold, and that’s why he likes the precious metal.

The only parties which benefit from this situation are the banks which, after seizing your home, avoid having to lose money by inflating its price. These special interests are safeguarded by politicians in Washington such as Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad who do their bidding.

Senators Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad lawyered up when the Senate ethics committee asked about their VIP loans from Countrywide Financial. But the sweetheart Senators may not be able to stop another look at their dealings with the subprime mortgage factory. A Democrat on the House oversight committee, Illinois freshman Mike Quigley, tells us that he supports a subpoena to obtain documents on the “Friends of Angelo” loan program.

Named for former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo, the program was used to curry influence with government officials. Bank of America, which bought the failed lender last year, has said it’s ready to turn over the files as soon as it receives a subpoena.

In the upcoming election, let us kick corrupt politicians out of their own residence in Washington D.C.

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Al Villalobos, the chairman of the Nevada firm Arvco, is under investigation for taking $50 million in fees arranging investments for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, of which he is a former board member.

America’s largest public-pension fund, Calpers, revealed that a former board member had reaped more than $50 million in fees for arranging investments that could saddle state taxpayers with hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.

The disclosure deepens concerns that alleged conflicts of interest are undermining state retirement funds.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System said it is launching a “special review” into payments by money managers — including billionaire Leon Black’s Apollo Management LP — to firms including Arvco Financial Ventures LLC. Arvco is headed by Al Villalobos, who served on Calpers’s board from 1993 to 1995.

Calpers has lost more than $50 billion from bad investments, putting the state of California on the brink of bankruptcy.

The cost of shoring up Calpers, the troubled $200 billion pension fund for California public employees, will ultimately fall on the state’s 38 million residents, who are already dealing with tax increases and reduced public services.

The state and local governments are contractually bound to increase their payments to Calpers to help it make up for its investment losses of more than $50 billion in the fiscal year ended June 30. Officials around the state are calling for more oversight of Calpers, which announced Wednesday it was investigating fees paid by its investment managers.

Apollo chairman Leon Black, a major money manager for Calpers who arranged the deal for Arvco, made a total of nearly $100,000 in political contributions in 2008 to Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Max Baucus, Jay Rockefeller, John Kerry, Dick Durbin, Carl Levin, Mark Pryor, Jack Reed, Tim Johnson, Frank Lautenberg, Tom Harkin, the DSCC, John McCain, Mitch McConnell, and the NRSC.

CalPERS and Arvco have invested heavily in the ‘clean tech’ sector, with a focus on emerging markets such as India.

Two of US’ largest pension funds, California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), have deployed more than $870 million for private equity investment in clean technology in the US and across the globe.

CalPERS, with its $246.7 billion under management, is the largest US pension fund followed by CalSTRS, with $168.8 billion. India is considered a key market for clean technology, and will likely see some investments by these pension-driven funds in the next one to four years.

There are several ways that this money could potentially find a road into India. According to its web site, CalPERS has invested $185 million into mostly venture capital funds; CalSTERS, according to a spokesperson, has invested $285 million in alternative investments including funds. One of CalPERS investees, DFJ Element, has already put money in India (along with other investors) through its 2006 investment in energy storage device manufacturer Deeya Energy, Inc., which is headquartered in California, but has a facility in Gurgaon.

The California pension funds are looking to expand ‘clean tech’ investments into China and Brazil as well.

The commitment of capital by the two pension funds has also resulted in the creation of private equity funds that will put the money to use. With a $400 million investment, CalPERS is the anchor investor in the clean energy and technology fund of PCG Asset Management, LLC. PCG is raising a $800 million global fund of which 5-10% or $40-80 million will target markets such as India, Brazil and China over the next three-four years, according to Mark Nydam, the company’s managing director.

Investment bank and financial advisory firm ARVCO Capital Research LLC is also in the early stages of putting together a new local team to lead a private equity fund focused on clean technology in India. Dusty Wunderlich, vice-president of investment banking at ARVCO, said as these pension funds have put money aside, his firm has decided to create a vehicle to put the money to use.

Apart from driving the market through their investments, CalPERS and CalSTRS have influenced other powerful pensions funds in the US since 2004 towards what the former calls “environmental investment initiatives”. This includes pension funds of the states of New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania.

Former California State Treasurer, Phil Angelides, launched a ‘Green Wave’ agenda which steered billions from CalPERS into evironmentally-based investments.

There’s a nationwide opportunity, notes Bracken Hendricks of the Washington-based Apollo Alliance of labor and environmental groups, “to literally substitute high-skill construction employment for wasted energy resources,” in the process cutting energy consumption 20 percent to 30 percent by 2020.

…In California, even as the regular state budget teeters on the edge pending a bond referendum March 2, state Treasurer Phil Angelides has launched a “Green Wave” agenda to mobilize the immense investments powers of the two multibillion-dollar state pension funds — CalPERS and CalSTRS. More than $500 million in pension investments will go to private firms developing “clean” technologies that create jobs and economic growth in the state. Another combined $1 billion in the funds will be invested in stock portfolios of environmentally screened funds — funds, as Angelides notes, that are now tending to outperform regular market funds.

And finally, CalPERS and CalSTRS will audit their $16 billion worth of real estate investments to maximize opportunities “to use clean energy, energy efficiency and green building standards.”

Angelides is now the chairman of the board for Apollo Alliance, a coalition of labor and environmental groups. They have reportedly been involved in steering the president’s agenda including bailouts, stimulus, cash for clunkers, and taxes on energy and insurance.

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In 2007, an 18% stake in Apollo was sold to CalPERS and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

Apollo Management, run by billionaire Leon Black, also sold an 18 percent stake to the California Public Employees Retirement System, or CalPERS, and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority for about $1.2 billion earlier this year.

Last year Russel Read, the former Calpers CIO, surprised other pension fund managers when he resigned from his post to pursue environmental investments.

The chief investment officer of Calpers is resigning to pursue environmental investments after nearly two years overseeing assets at the biggest U.S. pension fund, a fund spokesman said on Wednesday.

Russell Read, who oversaw a robust 19.1 percent return for Calpers in 2007, joined the pension fund in June 2006 and has led the $244 billion fund toward investing in environmental opportunities as well as into infrastructure and commodities, helping it post four years of consecutive double-digit returns.

Read, who also has been serving as head of an advisory panel on practices in the hedge fund industry for the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, could not be reached for comment about his decision to step down — which caught other pension fund professionals by surprise.

In May, Arvco began to come under scrutiny when it procured a $10 million investment from the New York state pension fund,

Arvco earned $100,000 in fees and a $10 million investment from Mr. DiNapoli’s office for one of its clients, Craton Equity Partners. [Bronx borough President] Mr. Ferrer’s role in introducing Arvco to Mr. DiNapoli was never disclosed in the reports of pension investments and brokers made public by the comptroller’s office every month…

“The comptroller wanted to meet Villalobos because of his extensive experience on pension fund boards in California,” said Dennis Tompkins, a spokesman for Mr. DiNapoli…

Neither Mr. Ferrer nor Mercury Public Affairs, a division of the Omnicom Group that employs him, have been subpoenaed in the investigations by Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo and the Securities and Exchange Commission into corruption at the pension fund.

A change in CalPERS disclosure policy led to the discovery of fees paid to Arvco.

The CalPERS documents, meanwhile, show that two retired state senators, Richard Polanco and Bill Campbell, worked on deals for Villalobos, flying first class or business class. The fare was reimbursed by Apollo Management.

CalPERS in May adopted a disclosure policy on placement agents and asked its various investment partners for documents on their hiring of agents. Those documents yielded the discovery of the fees paid to Villalobos’ firm, Arvco.

The review “won’t be limited to Arvco, but Arvco started it,” said CalPERS spokeswoman Pat Macht.

Apollo has received more than $3.5 billion from CalPERS.

Mr. Villalobos’s firm pitched the services of Apollo, Mr. Black’s New York private-equity firm, according to documents The Wall Street Journal requested from Calpers in a Sept. 23 Public Records Act request. According to these documents, Apollo paid Arvco at least $40.9 million in fees.

Since 2006, Calpers has committed more than $3.5 billion to Apollo funds, the largest committment to any firm in Calpers’s $20 billion private-equity investment portfolio.

These investments have been among Calpers’s worst performers, according to fund documents. Calpers committed $1 billion in 2008 to Apollo Credit Opportunities Fund I, which invests in debt markets and was down 49% as of March, according to Calpers documents.

The climate change cabal was dealt a deadly blow when a journal demanded a complete set of data to back their claims. Results published in the prestigious Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society show that scientists had been suppressing results. When the full data set was taken, the warming trend which allegedly takes the shape of a hockey stick disappeared!

Mr McIntyre’s analysis of the data – which he had been asking for since 2003 – suggests that scientists at the Climate Research Unit of the Hadley Centre associated with the UK Met. Office have been using only a small subset of the available data to make their claims that recent years have been the hottest of the last millennium.   When the entire data set is used, Mr McIntyre claims that the hockey stick shape disappears completely.

The office which has sponsored the fake data trend is the same that has been pushing global warming propaganda through the IPCC.

As Christopher Booker has reported the Met Office, its Hadley Centre in Exeter and the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at University of East Anglia are among the primary drivers of global climate change alarmism. Their data has formed the basis for the IPCC’s “we’re all doomed” reports; their scientists – among them Professor Phil Jones and tree ring expert Professor Keith Briffa – have been doughty supporters of Mann’s Hockey Stick theory and of the computer models showing inexorably rising temperatures.

John Stossel explores the hysteria, interviews indoctrinated children

The former vice president feigned outrage when a filmmaker dared to challenge his dogma.

McAleer asked Gore about a court case brought by British parents who challenged the veracity of nine facts in Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” and argued that the film should be taken out of schools.

“Do you accept the findings,” asked McAleer, “and have you done anything to correct those errors?”

“Well, I’m not going to go through all of those,” he said. “The ruling was in favor of the movie, by the way. The ruling was in favor of showing the movie in schools.”

But while dismissing the question, Gore joked that one of the controversies in his documentary was whether polar bears were endangered. “Word didn’t get to the polar bears,” he chuckled.

McAleer saw an opening and took it. “Well, the number of polar bears have increased, and are increasing.”

In their film, McAlheer and McElhinney challenge the climate cabal.

Not Evil, Just Wrong (preview)

“This is the film Al Gore and Hollywood don’t want you to see,” declares the website for the latest work by film-makers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer.

One of the lies being spread by global warming alarmists such as Greenpeace is that forest fires are fueled by global warming.

Greenpeace has warned of an imminent “global emergency” as climate change fuels forest fires that have already destroyed tens of thousands of hectares in southern Europe this year.

AccuWeather forecaster debunks wildfire climate change link

Meanwhile, Gore has been ramping up the push for the carbon tax bill.

Former Vice President Al Gore shared his optimism about the “shifting momentum” of the climate change debate with about 500 environmental journalists Friday in Madison.

“We’re very close to that political tipping point,” Gore said at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference at the Madison Concourse Hotel.

John Coleman, the founder of the Weather Channel, with the support of 31,000 scientists has revealed that Gore’s climate clamor is a scam to sell carbon credits.

John Coleman, who founded the cable network in 1982, suggests suing for fraud proponents of global warming, including Al Gore, and companies that sell carbon credits.

“Is he committing financial fraud? That is the question,” Coleman said.

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In July, Energy Secretary Stephen Chu promoted the idea of whitewashing roofs and roads to reflect heat and slow global warming.

America should attack global warming by … painting rooftops and road surfaces white.

Seriously. No kidding.

Among those promoting the idea is Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a big-thinking physicist who has a bully pulpit and influence over billions in research and stimulus funds.

At the time, it seemed to be a trivial proposition. Even the 31,000 scientists who are not members of Al Gore’s global warming mafia might say that it would be mostly harmless.

However, painting surfaces white is merely a milder form of the practice known as geo-engineering, or intervening with the planet to change its physical properties. It is a fast growing field for which several universities now have programs including UC Berkeley and the Illinois Institute of Technology. Among the proposals coming out of their research is to whitewash not just a few rooftops, but the entire sky. The idea is that if the weather were always cloudy, then less of the sun’s radiation would reach the surface, keeping it cool.

Carnegie Mellon has an $8 million Climate Decision Making Center. One of its professors, David Keith, is involved in a study group to examine methods of modifying the climate including using artificial cloud cover.

Created last year, the Royal Society’s geoengineering group studied a wide range of proposals to determine whether they could be feasible or effective. Geoengineering involves using man-made technology to stem global warming. Some proposed fixes include injecting sulfur into the stratosphere or capturing CO2 from the air.

John Holdren, the radical ‘Science Czar’, has publicly expressed support for extreme climate intervention such as whitewashing our sky.

The global warming situation has become so dire that Barack Obama’s chief scientific adviser has raised with the president the possibility of massive-scale technological fixes to alter the climate known as ‘geo-engineering’.

John Holdren, who is a member of the president’s cabinet, said today the drastic measures should not be “off the table” in discussions on how best to tackle climate change.

The idea of blotting out the sun to cool the earth is billed as a cheap alternative to reducing emissions. The materials can be found in waste products such as coal ash.

[UC Irvine physicist] Benford has cooked up a plan that amounts to a manmade Mount Pinatubo eruption. He has proposed shooting trillions of tiny particles of earth into the stratosphere, where they will remain suspended to help blot out incoming solar rays. Dirt is cheap, chemically unreactive and easily crushable, he argues, making it a simple matter to test this strategy on a small scale over the Arctic before total global deployment.

The phenomena was depicted in a segment on the History Channel.

As international climate talks look increasingly likely to fail, fanatical eco-activists have been pushing for what they perceive is a necessary fallback option.

“Geoengineering and its consequences are the price we may have to pay for failure to act on climate change,” said report chair and climate modeler John Shepherd of the University of Southampton in a prepared statement.

Therein lays the rub. The consequences could be not only environmental disaster, but destructive inflammatory biological effects upon any organism which is subjected to the deluge of toxic metal oxides and sulfates present in the artificial cloud dust.

Inflammation as a major cause of disease is not new. It is at least a reasonable consideration that inflammation is involved with, if not the cause of, every other ill from which we suffer as a race. If that has not been true in the past, it is true today. No other cause of disease has a chance to take a foothold. Inflammation troubles have become so dominant that no other process may need to be considered. The cause of this inflammation is chemical toxicity.

…Inflammatory responses, we should mention, create various disease processes in the body. Under the stress of inflammation, minerals and vitamins are depleted, circulatory damage is caused, free radicals spike endlessly, immune response becomes excessive but ineffective, pH lowers, endocrine glands become exhausted, digestion diminishes, nerves become frayed and irritable, periodic illness rules life and brain function decreases. During inflammatory responses, circulation stays near the organs of greatest saturation and other organs starve. It is a state of imbalance, weakness, irritability and chronic disease processes.

Because of the nature of today`s inflammatory chemicals, cancer and auto-immune disease are also sure to be on the rise. These diseases only exist when certain immune physiology fails. Specifically, cells, messengers and chemical solvents that are supposed to stop one phase of immune response and trigger the next are either destroyed, deceived or bound up so that they do not do their jobs. This can, and often does involve the last stage of immune response where clean-up is supposed to follow and break apart all the complex molecules put in place to fight germs, poisons or particles. These complex molecules, actually, are called complexes, complements or opsonins. Normally, they do their job, destroy the invader or neutralize the poison and then they are broken down so that those tissues can return to business as usual. When this does not happen, ongoing cell damage and tissue weakness will occur. You may get cancer and auto-immune disease or chronic fatigue and neurological failure.

One of the main elements in artificial cloud dust, aluminum, is a neurotoxin which can cause circulatory issues, digestive disorders, allergies, asthma, and inflammation.

Think that this proposal is too implausible to be implemented? Here is what government physicists were up to just three weeks ago off the East Coast of the United States:

Clouds come in countless shapes, from fluffy cotton candy to wispy lines that streak across the sky, but they are all formed from one simple ingredient—water vapor. In an experiment conducted September 19, scientists created the first artificial, high-atmosphere noctilucent cloud. But rather than water, the cloud formed from dust particles spewed out of a rocket.

The project, led by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C., focused on fabricating a noctilucent cloud, or one that floats at an altitude of 80 to 100 kilometers in the mesosphere (a layer of the atmosphere starting at about 50 kilometers above the surface). Because these clouds block sunlight, they play a part in, and may one day offer a solution to, global warming. Scientists have been able to use radar to track the behavior of natural noctilucent clouds, gleaning their speeds and densities. But studying artificial clouds offers “more of a controlled situation,” says Paul Bernhardt, a senior research associate in the NRL’s Plasma Physics Division and leader of the project.* “People [who] study the natural clouds, they have to sit there and wait” to come across one in Earth’s upper atmosphere.

…Although most rocket engines leave a trail of debris close to where they are ignited, Bernhardt explains that the group timed the rocket’s fourth stage motor to dump 100 kilograms of aluminum oxide dust after it had reached its peak altitude of around 280 kilometers. By knowing the rocket’s exact point of release, researchers at stations ranging from Virginia to New Jersey as well as in Bermuda could point their lasers and wide-angle lens cameras at the cloud’s birthplace, off the east coast, to study its behavior.

Beyond the experimental stage, the elite neoliberal Council on Foreign Relations has even discussed taking the radical step of unilaterally implementing geoengineering (pdf), outside the purview of the vast majority of its subjects.

There are a variety of strategies, such as injecting light-reflecting particles into the stratosphere, that might be used to modify the Earth’s atmosphere-ocean system in an attempt to slow or reverse global warming. All of these “geoengineering” strategies involve great uncertainty and carry significant risks. They may not work as expected, imposing large unintended consequences on the climate system. While offsetting warming, most strategies are likely to leave other impacts unchecked, such as acidification of the ocean, the destruction of coral reefs, and changes in composition of terrestrial ecosystems. Yet, despite uncertain and very negative potential consequences, geoengineering might be needed to avert or reverse some dramatic change in the climate system, such as several meters of sea level rise that could impose disaster on hundreds of millions of people.

Unlike the control of greenhouse gas emissions, which must be undertaken by all major emitting nations to be effective and is likely to be costly, geoengineering could be undertaken quickly and unilaterally by a single party, at relatively low cost.

The free market is under assault by leftists seeking to consolidate power in Washington. Patriots such as Peter Schiff are sacrificing their careers to take them on. Liberals like Chris Dodd are feeling the heat and have summoned their media attack dogs. Watch as Ed Schultz tries to slander the Connecticut Republican Senate candidate:

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Columnist Frank Ahrens, who recently interviewed Schiff, describes him as a ‘Hardcore Free Marketeer’.

President Obama has said the United States should move away from this boom-and-bust cycle. But aren’t booms and busts part of the market?

They’re not part of the market until the government blows up the bubble. So whenever you really have a bubble, generally speaking, the government is blowing the air into it. To say that we have to stop the booms and busts, you’d have to stop the booms. If you don’t stop the booms, the busts are inevitable. So where do booms come from? They come from cheap money. They come from interest rates too low. We need the government to stop inflating bubbles. We don’t need a super regulator. We already have a super regulator. It’s called the free market. The free market regulates if it’s left alone. The problem is, if it’s not left alone, it doesn’t work.

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