Archive for the ‘Government’ Category

the U.S. handing out fake moon rocks

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

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According to Dutch scientists, a moon rock that was given as a gift to the Dutch government by the U.S. in 1969 is just a piece of petrified wood. No response from NASA as of yet as to why they tried to pass off petrified wood to world governments as a “moon rock”. From the article:

A treasured piece of moon rock showcased in a key Amsterdam museum is nothing but petrified wood, museum authorities said of a gift made to a former Dutch prime minister by a US envoy.

The exhibit at the Rijksmuseum, was originally gifted to Willem Drees in 1969 by then US ambassador William Middendorf as a souvenir of a pathbreaking trip by three US astronauts on July 20, 1969.

Lets the conspiracies begin!

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A small visual aid regarding the U.S. National debt

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

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Posted in Finance, Government |

When does it stop being a conspiracy?

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

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For years throughout human history there have been the murmurings of dark alliances. Improbable and outrageous conspiracy theories regarding the “true” powers that controlled the world… and for years, despite evidence to the contrary, the people that have adamantly proselytized over and over that there was a “worldwide conspiracy to control the world by unseen powers” were dismissed as “alarmist” and “unbalanced”. While I do no argue that there are unbalanced people in this world recent world events have pushed some ugly truths out into the light.

The age old conspiracy was that there is a global international banking cartel that plots to subjugate every man, woman, and child on this earth through financial means is an old one. Growing up, I would watch as adults would guffaw in outrage and pass such ideas off as radical fringe behavior. I was guilty of the same behavior myself but the conspiracy cat is out of the proverbial bag at this point.

In a strange sort of way this financial collapse is a good thing for everyone (everyone who is paying attention that is…). Its positive in the regard that it has pushed into the light, the fact that the world’s banking and financial system DOES in fact run the civilized world. I don’t think it was planned this way but the “masterminds” behind this financial disaster forgot to include one important factor in their calculations, and that is the fact that greed takes on a life of its own and ends up consuming itself.

The financial institutions, investment firms, hedge funds and loan providers got so greedy, that its culminated into a “DEFCON 1″ scenario where the whole financial system was on the verge of total collapse. So in response, the insolvent banking systems, freshly “evaluated” from the recent government stress tests are now pillaging the very citizens in which they intended to enslave, and our government is in complete support of the saddling of insurmountable debt for many generations to come.

What does it say about the power structure in this country and more importantly, the world when the flailing banking and financial industry has consumed itself in endless greed and now crawl back to world governments and begged for bailouts? The government gives the banking system the bailouts they groveled for and in response, the banks take the money that the citizens have loaned them by proxy and then re-loan our money back to us with interest!

How much more uncapitalist can you get? So my question is “when does it stop being a conspiracy and start becoming fact?”.

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U.S. is silent on mass prison protest in Afghanistan

Monday, July 20th, 2009

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In another news story out of Afghanistan, which the corporate controlled mass media is again failing to report (and you wonder why traditional news outlets are dying?), There is evidently a mass protest going on in the largest prison in Afghanistan. From the Sydney Morning Herald article:

The prisoners are refusing to leave their cells, but they are not engaging in hunger strikes or violence. Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer for a Yemeni held at Bagram, said prisoners are protesting being held indefinitely without trial or legal recourse. The US military declined to comment.

Unlike Guantanamo Bay, where prisoners have access to lawyers, the 620 prisoners at Bagram are not allowed to visit their lawyers. Afghan Government representatives are generally not allowed to visit or inspect the prison.

In April the justice department appealed a U.S. judge’s decision that the prisoners at Bagram had the same Habeas Corpus rights that the prisoners at Guantanamo had. I’m not saying we should coddle the “terrorists” but they are human beings and a civilization is judged by how it treats its prisoners. If they are in fact guilty of crimes put them on trial. Holding someone indefinitely is unjust by any standards.

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Posted in Government, Law, War, World |

U.S. Post office unable to meet payroll by this October??

Monday, July 20th, 2009

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In a letter that was drafted on behalf of the Postal unions  sent a letter on Tuesday to Jim Messina  (White House deputy chief of staff) asking the White House to intervene with Congress and reduce the Postal Service’s contributions to its retiree health care trust fund. Otherwise the Postal service would run out of cash and have to issue IOU’s by this October. From the Federaltimes.com article:

Its top executives are now saying that the USPS will default on a $5.4 billion payment to prefund future retiree health benefits on September 30, 2009. And its government affairs representatives are now telling Congressional staff that the Postal Service may not be able to make payroll in October and will be forced to issue IOUs instead.

Looks like the whole IOU concept is beginning to take hold in other places besides California

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Deceased PM Bhutto assassinated by Cheney’s hit squad?

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

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In an explosive accusation out of Russia Today, a correspondent in Washington D.C. has claimed that after speaking to several intelligence officials in the U.S., that former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated while exposing herself to supporters in December 2007, was a possible target of Dick Cheney’s personal “hit squad”?!?! Quoted from the article:

On Wednesday, Washington-based investigative journalist Wayne Madsen quoted US intelligence officials as making ‘prominent’ references to Bhutto as a probable target of the program.

“I spoke to several US intelligence officials who were telling me that this assassination team may have targeted politicians in other countries,” Madsen told Russia Today.

“One name mentioned prominently was former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who may have been a victim of this particular program.”

This new unspecified CIA program, which was hidden from Congress for 8 years, sounds like the resurrection of the Phoenix program from the Viet Nam war era. The Phoenix program was a U.S. government sanctioned covert effort in which elite military units working in conjunction with the CIA and a host of other intelligence agencies carried out assassinations and kidnappings targeting the neutralization of enemy leaders, infrastructure and informants.

I am reticent to publish anything on this blog without independent verification but the allegations are potentially catastrophic to the Bush administration, and they are just that, allegations. Having not fully comprehended the impact of  this pontification if this were ever reported in the mainstream press here in the U.S.– regardless, the insinuation is enough to be the “tipping point” that may get Cheney and friends prosecuted if this turns out to be factual.

Surely, the next stage of arguments will be that this program “kept America safe”, that is if the U.S. mass meddia ever reports the issue…

Click the link to the story along with a video news piece with the wild allegation…

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16 members of congress under investigation

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

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Once again, the corporate controlled media wants you yo focus on the SHOCKING American Idol final! and none of the main U.S. outlets want you to hear about or care whats going on in our government. Latest news, there are currently 16 members of congress under investigation by various federal and state agencies. As you can see both Republicans and Democrats are both equally corrupt and time and time again are accused of lining their own pockets and pockets of families and friends. Feel free to write your representative or  Senator and let them know your feelings! Thanks to CREW for this information.

Either click on the link posted above or just read the list here posted after the jump…

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FCC is now allowed to search your home without a warrant

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

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As reported by Wired.com, in a shocking declaration by the Federal Communications Commission, according to the Communications Act of 1934. If you own any wireless RF device, this includes a baby monitor, wireless router, cell phone or cordless phones, the FCC has a right to enter the property and inspect the item in question:

You may not know it, but if you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cellphone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time of the day or night in order to inspect it.

That’s the upshot of the rules the agency has followed for years to monitor licensed television and radio stations, and to crack down on pirate radio broadcasters. And the commission maintains the same policy applies to any licensed or unlicensed radio-frequency device.

I imagine that this will be challenged in court but according to the Wired.com article, the FCC is trying to shut down “Pirate” radio stations. I understand the need to monitor radio stations to make sure that there isn’t some complete wacko giving out advice on how to commit crimes or something but it seems like that information can be ascertained by actually listening to the station!

Repeat after me!  You will not listen to anything over the airwaves that the government and corporations do not control or cannot monitor. Failure to comply will result in financial ruin.

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Bush 2: Electric Boogaloo!

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

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I have sat back quietly and watched “Mr. Change” Barack Obama and its time to speak out. I think I have given Mr. Obama the benefit of the doubt and now its time to comment.

Despite his initial speech to the world promising a new era of “Transparency” and open government, he has gone back on almost every single one of his promises and stances in his first 100 days in office. Its time to record some of this “Change” he has promised us.

Before you try to slam me or make assumptions about this post or this blog, go back into the archives and check out some of the criticism I’ve leveled at our last great president and his shining administration. At this point its not the false “right vs. left” argument thats distracting most of the people in this country, its really and issue of the Federal government vs. the American people.

So without further ado, lets see how the latest presidential administration is handling the new “Change” they been touting since last year. This latest report is brought to you by Rawstory.com.

According to Michael Isikoff on the Rachael Maddow show detailed a “secret meeting” between Obama and his closest officials and select members of Civil rights groups and the press. From the article:

The meeting was off the record, but MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported that Obama was “demonstrably not pleased” when told that he was “allowing President Bush’s policies to become his own.” Obama also “curtly” dismissed any suggestion of a truth commission or even a single symbolic torture prosecution.

At the same time, probably one of the least effective Congress’s in the history of our government voted 90-6 to pull any funding regarding the closure of  the U.S. run Guantanamo Bay gulag. Not only do we have a president that continues to carry on W’s policies, we have a more than ever complicit Congress just following along.

I dont know if this is the “change” I’ve been looking for…

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Jesse Ventura verbally piledrives Dick Cheney!

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

In an entertaining interview with Larry King on CNN, former Minnesota Governor Jesse “the Body” Ventura lets his opinions fly about the former villainous Vice president of the United States Dick “Shotgun” Cheney.

KING: A lot of things to go into, Jesse. What do you make of the Cheney/Limbaugh?

VENTURA: I don’t have a lot of respect for Dick Cheney. Here’s a guy who got five deferments from the Vietnam War. Clearly, he’s a coward. He wouldn’t go when it was his time to go. And now he is a chicken hawk. Now he is this big tough guy who wants this hardcore policy. And he’s the guy that sanctioned all this torture by calling it enhanced interrogation.

KING: Do you think Rush Limbaugh’s a better Republican than Colin Powell?

VENTURA: No, not at all. In fact, if you compare the two, let’s look at Colin Powell, who’s a war hero, who strapped it on for his country, and didn’t run and hide.

KING: Twice.

VENTURA: And then you look at Dick Cheney who ran and hid. I have no respect for Dick Cheney. I have tremendous respect for General Powell.

I wonder how talking head Neocons like Ann Coulter will respond. Not only was he a badass Navy SEAL in Vietnam, he was a professional wrestler as well. I guess that rules out the “far left liberal wussy” card… On another note, Mr. Ventura puts his money where his mouth is because he no longer lives in the United States and apparently now resides in Mexico. Ventura for President!

Heres the video clip from the Larry King show just in case you missed it…

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