Thanks Evelyn and Alex Jones for the article. My internet connection has been down for a couple of days so I couldn’t post it.
Surprise Tucson! This could work fine, the city council turning control of Tucsor over to Obama, but it irks me that the council did this in secret with no input from the citizens of Tucson. How much do you trust Obama, really?
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Bruce
'On February 20, 2013, the Tucson, Arizona City Council passed a resolution allowing the U.S. Air Force to “make appropriate decisions when balancing National Security and community needs when it comes to their existing and future military mission and assignments.
In other words, the resolution allows the military to reject decisions made by the people of Tucson.
The resolution is posted on the Tucson government website (as of this writing) and further states that it “is necessary for the preservation of the peace, health and safety of the City of Tucson that this Resolution become immediately effective, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage and adoption.”
In short, the Council has imposed what for all practical purposes is a declaration of martial law on the residents of Tucson.'
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Monday, March 4, 2013
Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile
These are cool tactical vehicles as shown in the 3-minute video, but what is DHS doing buying them for the police? This to me indicates that DHS considers us citizens the enemy. A recent executive order gave DHS more involvement in local affairs.
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Bruce
"According to one estimate, since last year the Department of Homeland Security has stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets, mainly .40 caliber and 9mm.
DHS also purchased 2,700 Mine Resistant Armor Protected Vehicles (MRAP)."
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Bruce
"According to one estimate, since last year the Department of Homeland Security has stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets, mainly .40 caliber and 9mm.
DHS also purchased 2,700 Mine Resistant Armor Protected Vehicles (MRAP)."
On to the next manufactured crisis
In this article Herman Cain wonders if Americans have forgotted what it's like for grownups to run the government, and do things like budgets. I agree with him after watching Obama, Reid, Pelosi, the Democrats and the Republican "leadership".
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Bruce
'Well we’ve gotten through a tiny, 2.3 percent reduction in the scheduled growth of federal spending – the big nothing burger called “sequester” that the political class and the media tried to portray as “massive” and “enormous” and “severe” and whatever else.
...
This is all taken care of, once a year, in this strange thing called a budget, which the Constitution says we are supposed to have, but which Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have not bothered to pass or even propose since 2009. Their preferred method of governing is a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants, make-it-up-as-you-go-along game. They get by with a series of constantly expiring continuing resolutions, complete with a never-ending array of temporary tax measures and massive borrowing that is always bumping us up against the statutory debt limit.
...
So we have a government that does not budget and does not govern, but keeps itself busy with the constant task of managing the crises it knowingly and willingly manufactures. All the while the media covers the intrigue, but misses the larger point that this is not how responsible people do their jobs.'
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Bruce
'Well we’ve gotten through a tiny, 2.3 percent reduction in the scheduled growth of federal spending – the big nothing burger called “sequester” that the political class and the media tried to portray as “massive” and “enormous” and “severe” and whatever else.
...
This is all taken care of, once a year, in this strange thing called a budget, which the Constitution says we are supposed to have, but which Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have not bothered to pass or even propose since 2009. Their preferred method of governing is a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants, make-it-up-as-you-go-along game. They get by with a series of constantly expiring continuing resolutions, complete with a never-ending array of temporary tax measures and massive borrowing that is always bumping us up against the statutory debt limit.
...
So we have a government that does not budget and does not govern, but keeps itself busy with the constant task of managing the crises it knowingly and willingly manufactures. All the while the media covers the intrigue, but misses the larger point that this is not how responsible people do their jobs.'
Post-Constitutional America: The Trap is Closing
We have been lied to and are being lied to again. Peter Farmer takes a close look at the ominous and insidious acts of our government under Bush and particularly Obama since 2009. Most people, especially us seniors, tend to forget what news events happened more than a few days ago, but when you see the list of events of a few recent years, the pattern and trend of those events jumps out at you.
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Bruce
'In the months following the September 11th attacks, the Bush administration and Congress created the Department of Homeland Security and enacted the Patriot Act.
...
Whatever the intentions of George W. Bush, there can be little argument that the nescient national security super-state he helped to create has proven to fit the iron fist of his successor, Barack Obama, like a glove. Using a combination of executive orders, unaccountable appointed “czars,” extrapolations and modifications of existing regulations, and old-fashioned political strong-arming, Obama and his ideological comrades have shredded the constitution and seized vast new powers for themselves and the federal government.
...
Each year, Congress passes a national defense authorization act (NDAA), which appropriates funds for the annual operation of the military and also sets forth modifications to national defense policy. Buried within its pages, the 2012 NDAA contained language authorizing the military to arrest and detain American citizens indefinitely without due process or habeas corpus, if they are suspected of being “terrorists” or what the act terms “covered persons.”
In addition to being a clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act – which prohibits the U.S. military from conducting combat operations on American soil – the NDAA effectively abolishes the constitutional right to due process. The term “covered persons” is sufficiently vague as to be meaningless and thereby can be stretched to accommodate whatever purpose the government desires.
...
The Department of Homeland Security, the Transportation Security Agency and other parts of the federal government recently have contracted for the purchase of 1.7 billion rounds of ammunition, including a recent purchase of 450 million rounds of .40 caliber hollow-point handgun ammunition.
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Why do these civilian agencies need that much ammunition? Hollow-point bullets are designed explicitly for anti-personnel use. The government claims this ammunition is strictly for target practice and annual qualifications drills. If so, why is so much HP ammunition required?
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In addition to the foregoing, it has just been disclosed that DHS has purchased 2,717 military-surplus MRAP (i.e., mine resistant ambush protected) armored personnel carriers from the military and is retrofitting them for use with that agency. The 18.9-ton MRAP was designed for service in combat; specifically, to withstand small-arms fire, improvised explosive devices, mines, rocket-propelled grenades and other military-grade threats. Why does a civilian agency of the federal government need such equipment – and in such quantity?
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whistle-blowers have come forward to disclose that the data center in Bluffdale, Utah will collect not only foreign signals, but domestic ones as well. When operable, the facility will have the ability to comprehensively collect and store all cell phone, text message, e-mail, and internet search engine traffic – not only collected from other nations, but those originating in the United States.
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for agencies like the CIA to surveil and spy upon ordinary citizens in their own homes, automobiles and places of business, “Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters — all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.” Common household items/goods such as automobiles, refrigerators, washers-dryers and thermostats will be “chipped,” connected to the internet and mined for data.
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It isn’t only household objects being wired for surveillance, either – but ubiquitous devices in the surrounding outdoor environment, such as streetlights. Streetlights? Yes, that is correct – high-tech streetlights funded by the government are being installed all over the country and have the capability to record both audio and video content.
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Americans have grown accustomed to reading about the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over foreign battlefields, but what about drones over our own soil?
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stipulate that the system shall be capable of “identifying a standing human being at night as armed or not” and also of direction-finding and signal capture of mobile phones, two-way radios and other forms of electronic communications.
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the trap is closing. America is rapidly becoming a garrison state.'
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Bruce
'In the months following the September 11th attacks, the Bush administration and Congress created the Department of Homeland Security and enacted the Patriot Act.
...
Whatever the intentions of George W. Bush, there can be little argument that the nescient national security super-state he helped to create has proven to fit the iron fist of his successor, Barack Obama, like a glove. Using a combination of executive orders, unaccountable appointed “czars,” extrapolations and modifications of existing regulations, and old-fashioned political strong-arming, Obama and his ideological comrades have shredded the constitution and seized vast new powers for themselves and the federal government.
...
Each year, Congress passes a national defense authorization act (NDAA), which appropriates funds for the annual operation of the military and also sets forth modifications to national defense policy. Buried within its pages, the 2012 NDAA contained language authorizing the military to arrest and detain American citizens indefinitely without due process or habeas corpus, if they are suspected of being “terrorists” or what the act terms “covered persons.”
In addition to being a clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act – which prohibits the U.S. military from conducting combat operations on American soil – the NDAA effectively abolishes the constitutional right to due process. The term “covered persons” is sufficiently vague as to be meaningless and thereby can be stretched to accommodate whatever purpose the government desires.
...
The Department of Homeland Security, the Transportation Security Agency and other parts of the federal government recently have contracted for the purchase of 1.7 billion rounds of ammunition, including a recent purchase of 450 million rounds of .40 caliber hollow-point handgun ammunition.
...
Why do these civilian agencies need that much ammunition? Hollow-point bullets are designed explicitly for anti-personnel use. The government claims this ammunition is strictly for target practice and annual qualifications drills. If so, why is so much HP ammunition required?
...
In addition to the foregoing, it has just been disclosed that DHS has purchased 2,717 military-surplus MRAP (i.e., mine resistant ambush protected) armored personnel carriers from the military and is retrofitting them for use with that agency. The 18.9-ton MRAP was designed for service in combat; specifically, to withstand small-arms fire, improvised explosive devices, mines, rocket-propelled grenades and other military-grade threats. Why does a civilian agency of the federal government need such equipment – and in such quantity?
...
whistle-blowers have come forward to disclose that the data center in Bluffdale, Utah will collect not only foreign signals, but domestic ones as well. When operable, the facility will have the ability to comprehensively collect and store all cell phone, text message, e-mail, and internet search engine traffic – not only collected from other nations, but those originating in the United States.
...
for agencies like the CIA to surveil and spy upon ordinary citizens in their own homes, automobiles and places of business, “Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters — all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.” Common household items/goods such as automobiles, refrigerators, washers-dryers and thermostats will be “chipped,” connected to the internet and mined for data.
...
It isn’t only household objects being wired for surveillance, either – but ubiquitous devices in the surrounding outdoor environment, such as streetlights. Streetlights? Yes, that is correct – high-tech streetlights funded by the government are being installed all over the country and have the capability to record both audio and video content.
...
Americans have grown accustomed to reading about the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over foreign battlefields, but what about drones over our own soil?
...
stipulate that the system shall be capable of “identifying a standing human being at night as armed or not” and also of direction-finding and signal capture of mobile phones, two-way radios and other forms of electronic communications.
...
the trap is closing. America is rapidly becoming a garrison state.'
Sunday, March 3, 2013
DOJ Memo: Outlaw and Confiscate All Guns
IT appears that Obama and Eric Holder have lied to us again. I find it hard to believe that anybody can still believe *anything* those two duds say any more.
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Bruce
'The National Rifle Association has obtained a Department of Justice memo calling for national gun registration and confiscation. The nine page “cursory summary” on current gun control initiatives was not officially released by the Obama administration.
The DOJ memo states the administration “believes that a gun ban will not work without mandatory gun confiscation” and thinks universal background checks “won’t work without requiring national gun registration.” Obama has yet to publicly support national registration or firearms confiscation, although the memo reveals his administration is moving in that direction.
The memo stands in stark contrast to the administration’s public stance on so-called gun control. White House spokesman Jay Carney said last month that laws proposed by Obama would not “take away a gun from a single law-abiding American.”'
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Bruce
'The National Rifle Association has obtained a Department of Justice memo calling for national gun registration and confiscation. The nine page “cursory summary” on current gun control initiatives was not officially released by the Obama administration.
The DOJ memo states the administration “believes that a gun ban will not work without mandatory gun confiscation” and thinks universal background checks “won’t work without requiring national gun registration.” Obama has yet to publicly support national registration or firearms confiscation, although the memo reveals his administration is moving in that direction.
The memo stands in stark contrast to the administration’s public stance on so-called gun control. White House spokesman Jay Carney said last month that laws proposed by Obama would not “take away a gun from a single law-abiding American.”'
The Sequester ‘Crisis’ And What Should Be Done
This is Ron Paul's weekly column. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta should use the words “shameful” and “irresponsible” to apply to his serving as Defense Secretary rather than to cutting waste in the government.
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Bruce
'Despite what the media and politicians would have us believe, the United States did not collapse last Friday when the package of spending reductions known as “sequestration” went into effect. The financial markets hardly blinked, as they have come to be more skeptical about these periodic government-hyped “crises.”
What had been portrayed as a drastic reduction in government spending was merely a decrease in the projected rate of increase in government spending over the next decade. Under sequestration, government spending increases by $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years rather than $2.5 trillion without it.
So we are speeding toward collapse at only 100 miles per hour instead of 110 miles per hour.
Some in Congress are using the panic over sequestration to justify another surrender of legislative authority to the executive branch. These members want to “pass the buck” on prioritizing federal programs by giving the president, cabinet officials, and high-level bureaucrats authority to set spending priorities. However, it is Congress’s job to set priorities in federal spending.
The drafters of the Constitution give the legislature the authority over spending because they recognized it was a threat to liberty to allow this power to be concentrated in the executive branch. Congress’s willingness to cede more authority to the executive should be opposed by everyone who values liberty and limited government.
Some of the loudest objections to sequestration have come from the champions of the military-industrial complex. Yet under sequestration defense spending will still increase by 18 percent over 10 years as opposed to 20 percent without sequestration.'
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Bruce
'Despite what the media and politicians would have us believe, the United States did not collapse last Friday when the package of spending reductions known as “sequestration” went into effect. The financial markets hardly blinked, as they have come to be more skeptical about these periodic government-hyped “crises.”
What had been portrayed as a drastic reduction in government spending was merely a decrease in the projected rate of increase in government spending over the next decade. Under sequestration, government spending increases by $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years rather than $2.5 trillion without it.
So we are speeding toward collapse at only 100 miles per hour instead of 110 miles per hour.
Some in Congress are using the panic over sequestration to justify another surrender of legislative authority to the executive branch. These members want to “pass the buck” on prioritizing federal programs by giving the president, cabinet officials, and high-level bureaucrats authority to set spending priorities. However, it is Congress’s job to set priorities in federal spending.
The drafters of the Constitution give the legislature the authority over spending because they recognized it was a threat to liberty to allow this power to be concentrated in the executive branch. Congress’s willingness to cede more authority to the executive should be opposed by everyone who values liberty and limited government.
Some of the loudest objections to sequestration have come from the champions of the military-industrial complex. Yet under sequestration defense spending will still increase by 18 percent over 10 years as opposed to 20 percent without sequestration.'
Saturday, March 2, 2013
ObamaGov: The story of a Tyrant and a collaborative Congress
Back in 2009 when I started this blog, I warned of similarities between what Obama was doing is the US vs. Hitler and Germny in the 1930s, For example small children being taught to sing songs praising Obama, and Obama setting up a civilian force "just as powerful and just as well-funded as our military.'
Not long ago Michael Savage and others have had a warning similar to that of Sher Zieve in this article, that the America-hating Obama is deliberately working to destroy our country.
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Bruce
'It’s becoming harder and harder for a great number of people to make sense of what the government is doing. So, instead of actually looking to and accepting the obvious and logical reasons (aka Occam’s Razor) for what is occurring, media personnel (it has become increasingly difficult to call them journalists or reporters) continue to scratch their heads and ask ‘what is Obama doing’?
The answer is obvious to all, but the relatively brain dead. In other words, Americans—even if they are slightly dim-witted collaborative “reporters”—know precisely what he’s doing.
Despite his ill-gotten success, but raised by Communist he and she wolves, Obama is destroying the country he has been taught to hate since he was a child; the same country that gave his grandparents an excellent income and lifestyle in Hawaii and Obama a life of privilege and enrollment at Honolulu‘s finest school. There is no other logical or rational explanation. He is destroying the country with vigor and prurient joy. Therefore, that was and is his intention. His early heroes were Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin. He later graduated to admiring the oft-mentioned self-proclaimed Luciferian Saul Alinsky.
Not long ago Michael Savage and others have had a warning similar to that of Sher Zieve in this article, that the America-hating Obama is deliberately working to destroy our country.
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Bruce
'It’s becoming harder and harder for a great number of people to make sense of what the government is doing. So, instead of actually looking to and accepting the obvious and logical reasons (aka Occam’s Razor) for what is occurring, media personnel (it has become increasingly difficult to call them journalists or reporters) continue to scratch their heads and ask ‘what is Obama doing’?
The answer is obvious to all, but the relatively brain dead. In other words, Americans—even if they are slightly dim-witted collaborative “reporters”—know precisely what he’s doing.
Despite his ill-gotten success, but raised by Communist he and she wolves, Obama is destroying the country he has been taught to hate since he was a child; the same country that gave his grandparents an excellent income and lifestyle in Hawaii and Obama a life of privilege and enrollment at Honolulu‘s finest school. There is no other logical or rational explanation. He is destroying the country with vigor and prurient joy. Therefore, that was and is his intention. His early heroes were Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin. He later graduated to admiring the oft-mentioned self-proclaimed Luciferian Saul Alinsky.
Obama now says his sequester idea 'dumb'
Here's a good article about sequester.
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Bruce
'The Obama administration warned us it would be catastrophic. Sequestration would mean the loss of police officers, firefighters, teachers, soldiers, air control towers and shipyards…you name it.
Now that sequestration is here, President Obama says it’s “dumb” but it’s “not going to be an apocalypse.”
Obama and House Speaker John Boehner failed to find an alternative to the sequester during a last-ditch meeting today, so $85 billion in automatic spending cuts are scheduled to begin to kick in at the end of the day.
Obama again blamed Republicans, even though he originated the idea.'
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Bruce
'The Obama administration warned us it would be catastrophic. Sequestration would mean the loss of police officers, firefighters, teachers, soldiers, air control towers and shipyards…you name it.
Now that sequestration is here, President Obama says it’s “dumb” but it’s “not going to be an apocalypse.”
Obama and House Speaker John Boehner failed to find an alternative to the sequester during a last-ditch meeting today, so $85 billion in automatic spending cuts are scheduled to begin to kick in at the end of the day.
Obama again blamed Republicans, even though he originated the idea.'
Friday, March 1, 2013
Obama -vs- The US Constitution
I agree 100% with JD Longstreet. I am concerned for our children and our grandchildren and the world they will inherit, especially after some of our fathers died fighting communism.
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Bruce
"I’m so old I can remember when anyone who did not agree with the government of Soviet Socialist Russia (or the Soviet Union) would be arrested by the government and placed in Soviet mental institutions because, the Soviet government had determined, you see, that anyone NOT agreeing with them was obviously INSANE. Often times the mentally challenged prisoner disappeared into the Gulag system never to be heard from again.
So—where am I going with this?
I’m just trying to give you a heads-up, ‘cause it’s happening right here in America—TODAY."
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Bruce
"I’m so old I can remember when anyone who did not agree with the government of Soviet Socialist Russia (or the Soviet Union) would be arrested by the government and placed in Soviet mental institutions because, the Soviet government had determined, you see, that anyone NOT agreeing with them was obviously INSANE. Often times the mentally challenged prisoner disappeared into the Gulag system never to be heard from again.
So—where am I going with this?
I’m just trying to give you a heads-up, ‘cause it’s happening right here in America—TODAY."
Irish Funeral
Thanks for the joke, Ed B.
Bruce
An Irish woman was leaving a convenience store with her espresso when she noticed a most unusual Irish funeral procession approaching the nearby cemetery. A black hearse was followed by a second black hearse about 50 feet behind the first one.
Behind the second hearse was a solitary Irish woman walking a dog on a leash.
Behind her, a short distance back, were about 200 women walking single file.
The woman couldn't stand the curiosity. She respectfully approached the Irish woman walking the dog and said:
"I am so sorry for your loss, and this may be a bad time to disturb you, but I've never seen a Irish funeral like this. Whose funeral is it?"
"My husband's"
"What happened to him?"
"He yelled at me and my dog attacked and killed him."
She inquired further, "But who is in the second hearse?"
The Irish woman answered, "My mother-in-law. She was trying to help my husband when the dog turned on her and killed her too."
A very poignant and touching moment of Irish sisterhood and silence passed between the two women..
"Can I borrow the dog?"
The woman replied, "Get in line."
Bruce
An Irish woman was leaving a convenience store with her espresso when she noticed a most unusual Irish funeral procession approaching the nearby cemetery. A black hearse was followed by a second black hearse about 50 feet behind the first one.
Behind the second hearse was a solitary Irish woman walking a dog on a leash.
Behind her, a short distance back, were about 200 women walking single file.
The woman couldn't stand the curiosity. She respectfully approached the Irish woman walking the dog and said:
"I am so sorry for your loss, and this may be a bad time to disturb you, but I've never seen a Irish funeral like this. Whose funeral is it?"
"My husband's"
"What happened to him?"
"He yelled at me and my dog attacked and killed him."
She inquired further, "But who is in the second hearse?"
The Irish woman answered, "My mother-in-law. She was trying to help my husband when the dog turned on her and killed her too."
A very poignant and touching moment of Irish sisterhood and silence passed between the two women..
"Can I borrow the dog?"
The woman replied, "Get in line."
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