NRA Asks Supreme Court To Strike Down Chicago’s Gun Ban

MyStateline
June 5, 2009

The National Rifle Association is wasting no time in asking the Supreme Court to strike down the latest verdict on Chicago’s handgun ban.

On Tuesday, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the gun ordinance in Chicago and the Oak Park suburb.

NRA officials say last year’s gun rights decision in the District of Columbia should also appeal to local and state laws.

If the Supreme Court agrees to pick up the case, it will not get underway until September.

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HR 1207 Now Up To 190 Co-sponsors

Daily Paul
June 5, 2009

On record so far on www.thomas.gov.

Ron Paul introduced HR 1207 on February 26, 2009 in the House.

Title: To amend title 31, United States Code, to reform the manner in which the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is audited by the Comptroller General of the United States and the manner in which such audits are reported, and for other purposes.

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 2/26/2009) Cosponsors (190)
Latest Major Action: 2/26/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Here’s 3 related (WORKING) links for easy access:

DEMOCRATIC List of Shame
http://www.dailypaul.com/…

REPUBLICAN List of Shame
http://www.dailypaul.com/…

S 604: F R Sunshine Act of 2009. Companion bill to HR1207
http://www.dailypaul.com/…

HR 1207 Co-Sponsors (as of 6/5/2009)

Rep Kagen, Steve [WI-8] – 2/26/2009
Rep Bachmann, Michele [MN-6] – 2/26/2009
Rep Bartlett, Roscoe G. [MD-6] – 2/26/2009
Rep Jones, Walter B., Jr. [NC-3] – 2/26/2009
Rep Rehberg, Denny [MT] – 2/26/2009
Rep Posey, Bill [FL-15] – 2/26/2009
Rep Broun, Paul C. [GA-10] – 2/26/2009
Rep Poe, Ted [TX-2] – 2/26/2009
Rep Burton, Dan [IN-5] – 2/26/2009
Rep Abercrombie, Neil [HI-1] – 2/26/2009
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] – 2/26/2009
Rep Garrett, Scott [NJ-5] – 3/5/2009
Rep Chaffetz, Jason [UT-3] – 3/6/2009
Rep Kingston, Jack [GA-1] – 3/6/2009
Rep Young, Don [AK] – 3/6/2009
Rep Rohrabacher, Dana [CA-46] – 3/6/2009
Rep Stearns, Cliff [FL-6] – 3/6/2009
Rep McClintock, Tom [CA-4] – 3/6/2009
Rep Heller, Dean [NV-2] – 3/6/2009
Rep Duncan, John J., Jr. [TN-2] – 3/6/2009
Rep Taylor, Gene [MS-4] – 3/6/2009
Rep DeFazio, Peter A. [OR-4] – 3/9/2009
Rep Alexander, Rodney [LA-5] – 3/10/2009
Rep Price, Tom [GA-6] – 3/10/2009
Rep Petri, Thomas E. [WI-6] – 3/10/2009
Rep Foxx, Virginia [NC-5] – 3/10/2009
Rep Grayson, Alan [FL-8] – 3/11/2009
Rep Marchant, Kenny [TX-24] – 3/11/2009
Rep Wamp, Zach [TN-3] – 3/16/2009
Rep Blackburn, Marsha [TN-7] – 3/16/2009
Rep Buchanan, Vern [FL-13] – 3/17/2009
Rep Castle, Michael N. [DE] – 3/17/2009
Rep Fleming, John [LA-4] – 3/18/2009
Rep Akin, W. Todd [MO-2] – 3/19/2009
Rep Platts, Todd Russell [PA-19] – 3/19/2009
Rep Peterson, Collin C. [MN-7] – 3/19/2009
Rep McCotter, Thaddeus G. [MI-11] – 3/19/2009
Rep Lummis, Cynthia M. [WY] – 3/19/2009
Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] – 3/19/2009
Rep Sessions, Pete [TX-32] – 3/23/2009
Rep Deal, Nathan [GA-9] – 3/23/2009
Rep Franks, Trent [AZ-2] – 3/23/2009
Rep Miller, Jeff [FL-1] – 3/24/2009
Rep Blunt, Roy [MO-7] – 3/24/2009
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] – 3/26/2009
Rep Culberson, John Abney [TX-7] – 3/26/2009
Rep Paulsen, Erik [MN-3] – 3/30/2009
Rep Gingrey, Phil [GA-11] – 3/30/2009
Rep Terry, Lee [NE-2] – 3/30/2009
Rep Carter, John R. [TX-31] – 3/31/2009
Rep Capito, Shelley Moore [WV-2] – 4/1/2009
Rep Wittman, Robert J. [VA-1] – 4/1/2009
Rep Fallin, Mary [OK-5] – 4/2/2009
Rep Smith, Lamar [TX-21] – 4/2/2009
Rep Westmoreland, Lynn A. [GA-3] – 4/2/2009
Rep Lucas, Frank D. [OK-3] – 4/21/2009
Rep Lamborn, Doug [CO-5] – 4/21/2009
Rep Ehlers, Vernon J. [MI-3] – 4/21/2009
Rep Bilbray, Brian P. [CA-50] – 4/21/2009
Rep Pence, Mike [IN-6] – 4/21/2009
Rep Manzullo, Donald A. [IL-16] – 4/21/2009
Rep McCaul, Michael T. [TX-10] – 4/21/2009
Rep Cole, Tom [OK-4] – 4/21/2009
Rep Roe, David P. [TN-1] – 4/21/2009
Rep Herger, Wally [CA-2] – 4/21/2009
Rep Bishop, Rob [UT-1] – 4/21/2009
Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] – 4/21/2009
Rep Olson, Pete [TX-22] – 4/21/2009
Rep Latham, Tom [IA-4] – 4/21/2009
Rep Luetkemeyer, Blaine [MO-9] – 4/21/2009
Rep Doggett, Lloyd [TX-25] – 4/21/2009
Rep Rooney, Thomas J. [FL-16] – 4/22/2009
Rep Massa, Eric J. J. [NY-29] – 4/22/2009
Rep Johnson, Sam [TX-3] – 4/22/2009
Rep Thompson, Glenn [PA-5] – 4/22/2009
Rep Brady, Kevin [TX-8] – 4/22/2009
Rep Smith, Adam [WA-9] – 4/22/2009
Rep Shimkus, John [IL-19] – 4/22/2009
Rep Graves, Sam [MO-6] – 4/22/2009
Rep Jenkins, Lynn [KS-2] – 4/23/2009
Rep Gohmert, Louie [TX-1] – 4/23/2009
Rep Inglis, Bob [SC-4] – 4/23/2009
Rep Kaptur, Marcy [OH-9] – 4/23/2009
Rep Johnson, Timothy V. [IL-15] – 4/23/2009
Rep Brown, Henry E., Jr. [SC-1] – 4/28/2009
Rep Biggert, Judy [IL-13] – 4/28/2009
Rep Pitts, Joseph R. [PA-16] – 4/28/2009
Rep Tiahrt, Todd [KS-4] – 4/28/2009
Rep Myrick, Sue Wilkins [NC-9] – 4/28/2009
Rep Putnam, Adam H. [FL-12] – 4/28/2009
Rep LaTourette, Steven C. [OH-14] – 4/28/2009
Rep Tiberi, Patrick J. [OH-12] – 4/28/2009
Rep Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [FL-18] – 4/28/2009
Rep Hoekstra, Peter [MI-2] – 4/28/2009
Rep Miller, Candice S. [MI-10] – 4/28/2009
Rep Granger, Kay [TX-12] – 4/28/2009
Rep Simpson, Michael K. [ID-2] – 4/28/2009
Rep Barrett, J. Gresham [SC-3] – 4/28/2009
Rep Goodlatte, Bob [VA-6] – 4/28/2009
Rep Smith, Adrian [NE-3] – 4/28/2009
Rep Wilson, Joe [SC-2] – 4/29/2009
Rep Hall, Ralph M. [TX-4] – 4/29/2009
Rep Kline, John [MN-2] – 4/29/2009
Rep Bono Mack, Mary [CA-45] – 4/29/2009
Rep Murphy, Tim [PA-18] – 4/29/2009
Rep Calvert, Ken [CA-44] – 4/29/2009
Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] – 4/29/2009
Rep Upton, Fred [MI-6] – 4/29/2009
Rep Bachus, Spencer [AL-6] – 4/29/2009
Rep Buyer, Steve [IN-4] – 4/30/2009
Rep Neugebauer, Randy [TX-19] – 4/30/2009
Rep McHenry, Patrick T. [NC-10] – 4/30/2009
Rep McCarthy, Kevin [CA-22] – 5/4/2009
Rep Barton, Joe [TX-6] – 5/4/2009
Rep Hensarling, Jeb [TX-5] – 5/4/2009
Rep McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [WA-5] – 5/4/2009
Rep Bilirakis, Gus M. [FL-9] – 5/4/2009
Rep Moran, Jerry [KS-1] – 5/4/2009
Rep Cassidy, Bill [LA-6] – 5/4/2009
Rep Walden, Greg [OR-2] – 5/4/2009
Rep Crenshaw, Ander [FL-4] – 5/4/2009

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Rep Campbell, John [CA-48] – 5/4/2009
Rep LoBiondo, Frank A. [NJ-2] – 5/4/2009
Rep McHugh, John M. [NY-23] – 5/4/2009
Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. [IL-9] – 5/6/2009
Rep Linder, John [GA-7] – 5/6/2009
Rep Aderholt, Robert B. [AL-4] – 5/6/2009
Rep Davis, Geoff [KY-4] – 5/6/2009
Rep Dent, Charles W. [PA-15] – 5/6/2009
Rep Radanovich, George [CA-19] – 5/6/2009
Rep Schock, Aaron [IL-18] – 5/6/2009
Rep Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [SD] – 5/6/2009
Rep Austria, Steve [OH-7] – 5/6/2009
Rep Adler, John H. [NJ-3] – 5/6/2009
Rep Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [WI-5] – 5/7/2009
Rep Lungren, Daniel E. [CA-3] – 5/7/2009
Rep Walz, Timothy J. [MN-1] – 5/7/2009
Rep Shuster, Bill [PA-9] – 5/7/2009
Rep Michaud, Michael H. [ME-2] – 5/7/2009
Rep Conaway, K. Michael [TX-11] – 5/7/2009
Rep Shadegg, John B. [AZ-3] – 5/7/2009
Rep Boozman, John [AR-3] – 5/7/2009
Rep Guthrie, Brett [KY-2] – 5/7/2009
Rep Flake, Jeff [AZ-6] – 5/11/2009
Rep Hastings, Doc [WA-4] – 5/11/2009
Rep Lance, Leonard [NJ-7] – 5/11/2009
Rep Gerlach, Jim [PA-6] – 5/11/2009
Rep Harper, Gregg [MS-3] – 5/11/2009
Rep Hare, Phil [IL-17] – 5/11/2009
Rep Royce, Edward R. [CA-40] – 5/12/2009
Rep Fortenberry, Jeff [NE-1] – 5/12/2009
Rep Mack, Connie [FL-14] – 5/12/2009
Rep Barrow, John [GA-12] – 5/12/2009
Rep Mica, John L. [FL-7] – 5/12/2009
Rep Maffei, Daniel B. [NY-25] – 5/12/2009
Rep Inslee, Jay [WA-1] – 5/12/2009
Rep Rogers, Mike D. [AL-3] – 5/13/2009
Rep Minnick, Walter [ID-1] – 5/13/2009
Rep Boustany, Charles W., Jr. [LA-7] – 5/13/2009
Rep Turner, Michael R. [OH-3] – 5/13/2009
Rep Hunter, Duncan D. [CA-52] – 5/13/2009
Rep Perriello, Thomas S.P. [VA-5] – 5/13/2009
Rep Ortiz, Solomon P. [TX-27] – 5/14/2009
Rep Ryan, Paul [WI-1] – 5/14/2009
Rep Whitfield, Ed [KY-1] – 5/14/2009
Rep Pastor, Ed [AZ-4] – 5/20/2009
Rep Brown-Waite, Ginny [FL-5] – 5/20/2009
Rep Altmire, Jason [PA-4] – 5/20/2009
Rep Latta, Robert E. [OH-5] – 5/20/2009
Rep Reichert, David G. [WA-8] – 5/20/2009
Rep Rogers, Mike J. [MI-8] – 5/20/2009
Rep Berry, Marion [AR-1] – 5/20/2009
Rep Schauer, Mark H. [MI-7] – 5/20/2009
Rep Scalise, Steve [LA-1] – 5/20/2009
Rep Forbes, J. Randy [VA-4] – 5/20/2009
Rep Ross, Mike [AR-4] – 5/21/2009
Rep Berkley, Shelley [NV-1] – 5/21/2009
Rep Welch, Peter [VT] – 5/21/2009
Rep Thornberry, Mac [TX-13] – 5/21/2009
Rep Jordan, Jim [OH-4] – 6/2/2009
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] – 6/2/2009
Rep Roskam, Peter J. [IL-6] – 6/2/2009
Rep Young, C.W. Bill [FL-10] – 6/3/2009
Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7] – 6/3/2009
Rep Frelinghuysen, Rodney P. [NJ-11] – 6/3/2009
Rep Halvorson, Deborah L. [IL-11] – 6/3/2009
Rep King, Peter T. [NY-3] – 6/4/2009
Rep Holden, Tim [PA-17] – 6/4/2009
Rep Lipinski, Daniel [IL-3] – 6/4/2009
Rep Kratovil, Frank, Jr. [MD-1] – 6/4/2009

URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/hr-1207-now-up-to-190-co-sponsors/

Report Ties Dubious Iran Nuclear Docs to Israel

Gareth Porter
IPS
June 5, 2009

A report on Iran’s nuclear programme issued by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month generated news stories publicising an incendiary charge that U.S. intelligence is underestimating Iran’s progress in designing a “nuclear warhead” before the halt in nuclear weapons-related research in 2003.

That false and misleading charge from an intelligence official of a foreign country, who was not identified but was clearly Israeli, reinforces two of Israel’s key propaganda themes on Iran – that the 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate on Iran is wrong, and that Tehran is poised to build nuclear weapons as soon as possible.

But it also provides new evidence that Israeli intelligence was the source of the collection of intelligence documents which have been used to accuse Iran of hiding nuclear weapons research.

The Committee report, dated May 4, cited unnamed “foreign analysts” as claiming intelligence that Iran ended its nuclear weapons-related work in 2003 because it had mastered the design and tested components of a nuclear weapon and thus didn’t need to work on it further until it had produced enough sufficient material.

That conclusion, which implies that Iran has already decided to build nuclear weapons, contradicts both the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, and current intelligence analysis. The NIE concluded that Iran had ended nuclear weapons-related work in 2003 because of increased international scrutiny, and that it was “less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005″.

The report included what appears to be a spectacular revelation from “a senior allied intelligence official” that a collection of intelligence documents supposedly obtained by U.S. intelligence in 2004 from an Iranian laptop computer includes “blueprints for a nuclear warhead”.

It quotes the unnamed official as saying that the blueprints “precisely matched” similar blueprints the official’s own agency “had obtained from other sources inside Iran”.

No U.S. or IAEA official has ever claimed that the so-called laptop documents included designs for a “nuclear warhead”. The detailed list in a May 26, 2008 IAEA report of the contents of what have been called the “alleged studies” – intelligence documents on alleged Iranian nuclear weapons work — made no mention of any such blueprints.

In using the phrase “blueprints for a nuclear warhead”, the unnamed official was evidently seeking to conflate blueprints for the reentry vehicle of the Iranian Shehab missile, which were among the alleged Iranian documents, with blueprints for nuclear weapons.

When New York Times reporters William J. Broad and David E. Sanger used the term “nuclear warhead” to refer to a reentry vehicle in a Nov. 13, 2005 story on the intelligence documents on the Iranian nuclear programme, it brought sharp criticism from David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and International Security.

“This distinction is not minor,” Albright observed, “and Broad should understand the differences between the two objects, particularly when the information does not contain any words such as nuclear or nuclear warhead.”

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The Senate report does not identify the country for which the analyst in question works, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff refused to respond to questions about the report from IPS, including the reason why the report concealed the identity of the country for which the unidentified “senior allied intelligence official” works.

Reached later in May, the author of the report, Douglas Frantz, told IPS he is under strict instructions not to speak with the news media.

After a briefing on the report for selected news media immediately after its release, however, the Associated Press reported May 6 that interviews were conducted in Israel. Frantz was apparently forbidden by Israeli officials from revealing their national affiliation as a condition for the interviews.

Frantz, a former journalist for the Los Angeles Times, had extensive contacts with high-ranking Israeli military, intelligence and foreign ministry officials before joining the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff. He and co-author Catherine Collins conducted interviews with those Israeli officials for “The Nuclear Jihadist”, published in 2007. The interviews were all conducted under rules prohibiting disclosure of their identities, according to the book.

The unnamed Israeli intelligence officer’s statement that the “blueprints for a nuclear warhead” – meaning specifications for a missile reentry vehicle – were identical to “designs his agency had obtained from other sources in Iran” suggests that the documents collection which the IAEA has called “alleged studies” actually originated in Israel.

A U.S.-based nuclear weapons analyst who has followed the “alleged studies” intelligence documents closely says he understands that the documents obtained by U.S. intelligence in 2004 were not originally stored on the laptop on which they were located when they were brought in by an unidentified Iranian source, as U.S. officials have claimed to U.S. journalists.

The analyst, who insists on not being identified, says the documents were collected by an intelligence network and then assembled on a single laptop.

The anonymous Israeli intelligence official’s claim, cited in the Committee report, that the “blueprints” in the “alleged studies” collection matched documents his agency had gotten from its own source seems to confirm the analyst’s finding that Israeli intelligence assembled the documents.

German officials have said that the Mujahedin E Khalq or MEK, the Iranian resistance organisation, brought the laptop documents collection to the attention of U.S. intelligence, as reported by IPS in February 2008. Israeli ties with the political arm of the MEK, the National Committee of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), go back to the early 1990s and include assistance to the organisation in broadcasting into Iran from Paris.

The NCRI publicly revealed the existence of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in August 2002. However, that and other intelligence apparently came from Israeli intelligence. The Israeli co-authors of “The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran”, Yossi Melman and Meir Javeanfar, revealed that “Western” intelligence was “laundered” to hide its actual provenance by providing it to Iranian opposition groups, especially NCRI, in order to get it to the IAEA.

They cite U.S., British and Israeli officials as sources for the revelation.

New Yorker writer Connie Bruck wrote in a March 2006 article that an Israeli diplomat confirmed to her that Israel had found the MEK “useful” but declined to elaborate.

Israeli intelligence is also known to have been actively seeking to use alleged Iranian documents to prove that Iran had an active nuclear weapons programme just at the time the intelligence documents which eventually surfaced in 2004 would have been put together.

The most revealing glimpse of Israeli use of such documents to influence international opinion on Iran’s nuclear programme comes from the book by Frantz and Collins. They report that Israel’s international intelligence agency Mossad created a special unit in the summer of 2003 to carry out a campaign to provide secret briefings on the Iranian nuclear programme, which sometimes included “documents from inside Iran and elsewhere”.

The “alleged studies” collection of documents has never been verified as genuine by either the IAEA or by intelligence analysts. The Senate report said senior United Nations officials and foreign intelligence officials who had seen “many of the documents” in the collection of alleged Iranian military documents had told committee staff “it is impossible to rule out an elaborate intelligence ruse”.

*Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist specialising in U.S. national security policy. The paperback edition of his latest book, “Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam”, was published in 2006.

URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/report-ties-dubious-iran-nuclear-docs-to-israel/

Bad CPS bill deserves a good veto

Grits for Breakfast
June 5, 2009

Jerri Lynn Ward alerts me to a bad amendment approved in the legislative session’s waning hours heaping new authority on CPS to allow them to undertake child seizures and interrogations without first notifying parents. The Parent Guidance Center issued this press release calling for a gubernatorial veto. See discussions from Tim Lambert of the Texas Home School Coalition and the blog The Travis Monitor. According to Lambert:

the bill was substituted in committee for a very different SB 1064, which was passed out of the Senate and sent to the House. The new SB 1064 gave the court authority to force parents to give CPS access to the child and/or transport the child for “interview, examination and investigation,” without a court hearing or notice to the parent. Worst of all, the language in the current statute that requires CPS to prove “good cause shown” was stricken. Thus this bill would allow CPS, during an investigation in which the parents would not waive their 4th amendment rights, entrance into their home, access to medical or mental health records of their children or transportation of the child, on the simple filing of an affidavit by a CPS worker with no hearing or opportunity for the parents or their legal counsel to present their case.

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The bill language allows CPS to access records without parental consent or a court hearing and lets them transport a child for questioning based only on an affidavit (without a hearing or a finding of “good cause”) if the parents won’t consent. Parents must be notified afterward as soon as practicable, but I don’t see why it’s not “practicable” to notify them beforehand.

This is clearly an overreaction to the fiasco surrounding the Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup, and an unnecessary one. I’m disappointed in Rep. Patrick Rose and Sen. Kirk Watson for carrying this piece of junk. Ward, Lambert and other conservatives are calling on the Governor to veto SB 1440 and I’d have to agree the bill deserves an ignominious demise.

Follow this link to tell the Governor your opinion.

URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/bad-cps-bill-deserves-a-good-veto/

Obama Selling Military Secrets To China For Debt Forgiveness?

Tyler Durden
iStockAnalyst
June 5, 2009

Ran across this article posted in Jumping In Pools. Not sure how credible it is, but allegedly Barack Obama will provide the blueprints for the B-2 stealth bomber to China in exchange for $50 billion in debt relief. According to author Richard Hogarty:

According to the Administration, this proposal will help the United States resolve its debt issues. They point out their belief that the B-2 bomber is “strategically obsolete”, according to a source in the White House Press Office. In addition, the source claims that the Chinese would be unable to create their own functioning stealth bomber fleet for “at least eight years.”

American allies Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea are very wary of the proposal. Koo Syi, a geopolitical analyst from South Korea, points out that this technology could be passed to China’s allies. This was the case when Chinese nuclear technology was transferred to Pakistan and North Korea. According to Koo, Obama has rendered US allies’ opinions as “irrelevant.”

While this proposal is controversial, it is not being presented to Congress, where it could meet with stern opposition. Instead, the State Department has been informed to assisted the Defense Department with the transfer of materials.

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A little skeptical here as frankly $50 billion is less than a drop in the bucket of Chinese Treasury holdings which are easily well over $1 trillion. The economic impact of this transaction would be negligible to zero. On the other hand, if this ends up being true, it is quite frightening, as it merely demonstrates, aside from all the scary geo-political considerations, just how bad of a dealmaker our President is.

In other China-related news, Reuters reporting that Tim Geithner’s soothing words from his Beijing whirlwind tour that “Chinese assets are very safe,” drew loud laughter from the audience.

“Chinese assets are very safe,” Geithner said in response to a question after a speech at Peking University, where he studied Chinese as a student in the 1980s.

His answer drew loud laughter from his student audience, reflecting scepticism in China about the wisdom of a developing country accumulating a vast stockpile of foreign reserves instead of spending the money to raise living standards at home.

Alas, laughter is more and more the traditional response when other economies consider the sustainability of the ongoing economic fiasco developing before our eyes (and this author’s response to the continued market manipulation).

URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/obama-selling-military-secrets-to-china-for-debt-forgiveness/

House Bill Proposes Commission to Explore National Servitude

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
June 5, 2009

Back in November, after sweeping the election, Obama’s crew removed language from his official website calling for mandatory service for all Americans. “Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year,” the site said before the document was scrubbed in response to criticism.

Obama and the Democrats are wedded to the idea of mandatory service. In December 2007, Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd proposed making community service mandatory for all high school students and proposed “encouraging service by adults by offering tax credits to employers who give workers paid time off to volunteer and $1,000 grants for seniors who help out in schools,” MSNBC reported.

In 2006, Rahm Emanuel, now Obama’s chief of staff, published a book entitled “The Plan.” In the book Emanuel argues for universal service for all “Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five [who] will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service.”

Democrats love the idea of involuntary servitude. “For America now, service is not just an option, but an obligation of citizenship,” said John Kerry during the 2004 election. In the 110th congress Charles Rangel introduced the Universal National Service Act H.R.393, a bill that would have required all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service for a period of two years.

National service is feel-good code for slavery. It is prohibited by the 13th amendment.

In March, both the House and Senate passed a bill tripling the AmeriCorps program. Called the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, or GIVE Act, the law “encourages” Americans to “give back to their communities,” Fox News reported. Republicans attempted to attach an amendment to the bill prohibiting for-profit political and labor groups that engage in legislative advocacy from receiving “assistance” under the plan, but the amendment was tabled.

We need your service, right now,” Obama declared as he signed the bill. “I’m asking you to stand up and play your part. I’m asking you to help change history’s course… and if you do, I promise you, your life will be richer.”

Obama and Congress will eventually do more than merely ask “you to stand up and play your part” — they will legislate it. In March, H.R. 1444 was introduced in the House by a gaggle of Democrats. The bill will “establish the Congressional Commission on Civic Service to study methods of improving and promoting volunteerism and national service, and for other purposes.”

H.R. 1444 is sponsored by Rep. Jim McDermott, a Washington state Democrat, and is assigned to the House Committee on Labor and Education. It reintroduces language calling for universal servitude stripped from H.R. 1388, the so-called GIVE (to government) bill.

In Section 4. of the proposed bill, entitled “Duties,” we find the following: “The effect on the Nation, on those who serve, and on the families of those who serve, if all individuals in the United States were expected to perform national service or were required to perform a certain amount of national service.” (Emphasis added.) A “workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement” is proposed “for all able young people.”

In addition, the Commission will investigate how to rope older Americans into a national servitude program. “Whether current Federal volunteer programs are suited to address the special skills and needs of senior volunteers, and if not, how these programs can be improved such that the Federal government can effectively promote service among the ‘baby boomer’ generation,” the bill states.

The Commission will also explore the creation of a “public service academy, a 4-year institution that offers a federally funded undergraduate education with a focus on training future public sector leaders.” Federal money would go to establish “a training program on college campuses to recruit and educate college students for national service.”

As Obama said during his GIVE signing speech, he wants to create “a generation of activists” to work with “nonprofit organizations” — that is to say, foundation NGOs — to “strengthen the Nation” as determined by the government and the corporations and bankers that own it.

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Our rulers are itching to implement “an era of common sacrifice,” as the Trilateralist David and Bohemian Grove attendee Gergen has called it. “David Gergen is perhaps the most vocal proponent of a new wave of ’social entrepreneurs’ whose businesses are modeled on a ‘more-than-profit’ basis. Most of these groups aim to incorporate a partnership between the public & private sectors (sometimes known as fascism),” writes Aaron Dykes.

Gergen and his one-world buddies consider us little more than a disposable ciphers to be used in their scheme to realize “a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole,” as Carrol Quigley noted.

In order to usher in the New Feudalism, the youth — and the baby boomers — will not only need to be brainwashed into accepting “an era of common sacrifice,” they will need to be forced by law to sacrifice and become slaves for the ruling elite.

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Bilderberger treason goes unpunished!

Jerry Mazza
Online Journal
June 5, 2009

The True Story of the Bilderberg Group
The updated, revised, expanded
North American Union Edition
By Daniel Estulin

It is ironic, as Daniel Estulin points out, that America’s fledgling democracy established the Logan act in 1799 to protect itself from Americans fostering foreign associations to intrude in our affairs. Named after Dr. George Logan, a pro Republican and prescient Quaker from Pennsylvania, it has remained almost unchanged and unfortunately unused since its passage, though it reads with great relevance in the shadows of the New World Order’s operatives . . .

It states, “Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”

In fact, it is amazing that the Bilderberg Group has met since 1954 with funding from the CIA and is made up of the world’s most powerful people, notably US and world heads of state, made and in the making, numerous international corporate CEOs from business, banking, industry, media, as well as world royalty, plus high-ranking members of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Tri-Lateral Commission.

The Bilderberg goal has been to shape policy that deeply concerns the United States and its citizens in regards to innumerable foreign alliances without providing US citizens any awareness of same. And not once has any US member been indicted for their treasonous breaches in these actions.

Even though high-ranking members of the press attend Bilderberg annual meetings, there is little or no press coverage. They are there, as it were, to get with and push the program, albeit disguised. The meetings’ locales are announced only days before the events, always in a small town near a big city — this year’s at the five-star Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel in Vouliagmeni, Greece, May 14-17.

There are no press reports of discussions, agendas or conclusions released. Yet the matters discussed ranged this year from all facets of the US economy, including the dollar’s future, whether there will be depression or prolonged stagnation, US unemployment; more frighteningly, even to the destruction of the United States as we know it into the North American Union of Canada, the US, and Mexico.

Even though I read and favorably reviewed Estulin’s Bilderberg 2007: Welcome to the Lunatic Fringe, this new edition of the story lends new urgency to what has been happening in the darkness of the political night we live in, both north and south of us, including newly made associations of corporations, plans to usurp US laws to North American Union imperatives, all part of a scheme to hammer America into the pieces of this NAU like broken glass into an unrecognizable mosaic of oppression.

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WHO recommends rotavirus vaccine for all children

Reuters
June 5, 2009

The World Health Organization recommended on Friday that oral rotavirus vaccines be included in all national immunization programs to avert half a million diarrhoeal deaths and 2 million hospitalizations a year.

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Children in Europe and the Americas have had access to the rotavirus vaccine for three years but it had previously not been tested in and approved for low-income settings where the dehydrating disease is most lethal.

The U.N. agency’s new global guidance is expected to boost demand for Merck’s RotaTeq, GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix vaccines in Africa and Asia, and from health charities.

“This WHO recommendation clears the way for vaccines that will protect children in the developing world from one of the most deadly diseases they face,” said Tachi Yamada of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Rotavirus is a leading cause of severe gastroenteritis, including vomiting and diarrhea, in infants and young children. The contagious infection kills an estimated 1,600 children under the age of 5 every day, mostly in Africa and Asia.

The first vaccine developed to fight rotavirus, sold by Wyeth, was pulled from the market in 1999 after it was linked to a rare, life-threatening type of bowel obstruction known as intussusception.

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New Uses For Electro-Shock Torture

William Grigg
LRC Blog
June 4, 2009

A police officer assigned to prowl the halls of Pennsylvania’s Penn Hills High School came across a student using his cell phone, a violation of school rules except in an emergency.

The officer was ignored when he told the student to turn off the phone. So he ordered the student to the principal’s office. According to Police Chief Howard Burton, “The student resisted, pushed the officer. The officer, defending himself, took out his stun gun and did a drive stun.”

A “drive stun” consists of placing the Taser directly to the subject’s body, temporarily immobilizing him. The student fell to the floor, where, after he continued “resisting” — one has to admire his tenacity — he was handcuffed.

All of this was less disruptive than the student’s cell phone use, one supposes.

After the student complained of dizziness and a headache, he was taken to a hospital, where at least he was spared a few hours in the government-run conformity gulag.

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In addition to their use as Pavlovian instruments of pain compliance in government schools, Tasers now may be employed to extract DNA samples from uncooperative citizens, according to a Niagara County Judge.

Last September 29, police applied the Taser to local resident Ryan S. Smith, who was handcuffed and in custody at the police station, in order to compel him to cooperate in their effort to obtain a sample. A previous sample had been sent to the wrong lab and spoiled.

Apparently, somebody had informed Smith — a suspect in a shooting and robbery at a local service station — of the potential for self-incrimination, because he resisted the second attempt. An officer overcame Smith’s resistance by treating him to a “drive stun” charge.

Judge Sara Sheldon Sperazza, who is presiding over the trial, had ordered the DNA sample ex parte. After Smith’s refusal to cooperate, he was arrested on a contempt of court charge.

Now, in response to a defense challenge, Judge Sperazza has upheld her own exceptionally dubious order, ruling that police can employ electro-shock torture to extort DNA samples as long as this is not done “maliciously, or to an excessive extent, or with resulting injury.”

“They have now given the Niagara Falls police discretion to Taser anybody anytime they think it’s reasonable,” protested defense lawyer Patrick M. Balkin. “Her decision says you can enforce a court order by force. If you extrapolate that, we no longer have to have child support hearings; you can just Taser the parent.”

Balkin is certainly correct about the logic of Sperazza’s self-serving decree. But it’s useful to extrapolate just a little bit further: If police are now authorized to use pain compliance to obtain self-incriminating evidence, why not restore other supposedly benign “interrogation” methods — such as waterboarding, for instance?

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Obama Admits US Involvement in Iran Coup in 1953, But Doesn’t Admit American Involvement in False Flags

Washington’s Blog
June 4, 2009

Obama has admitted that the U.S. was involved in the Iranian coup in 1953.

I applaud the president for admitting this fact.

When will the U.S. admit that the U.S. was not only “involved”, but – as documented by the New York Times – Iranians working for the C.I.A. in the 1950’s posed as Communists and staged bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected president (see also this essay)?

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And when will America admit that – as confirmed by a former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence – that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism. As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security.”

And when will we admit that – as confirmed by recently declassified documents – in the 1960’s, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. If you view no other links in this article, please read the following ABC news report; the official documents; and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings?

Because the important admission is not that the U.S. helped with a coup, but that America and virtually all other powerful nations throughout history have used “false flag terror” as means to political ends.

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