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Septembet 28,2009
Senate Finance Committee Votes Down a Government-Run Public Health Plan [3:00 p.m. ET]
Employee misconduct investigations, often involving workers accessing pornography from their government computers, grew sixfold last ...
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Political Economy: Too Big, Period?
By John Cranford, CQ Columnist
It was just a year ago last week that Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke turned financial regulation on its head and left themselves, and the rest of us, in a world of trouble. Paulson and Bernanke made a pair of fateful — and seemingly contradictory — choices when they allowed one big financial house, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., to fail on Sept. 15, 2008, and one day later rescued another, the tottering American International Group Inc.At least one of those actions would seem to have been a big mistake, though it's not altogether clear which one. Certainly the combination of the two sent a decidedly mixed signal that isn't likely to be clarified soon. more..http://www.cq.com

Tammany Hall is dead today, but the system is still alive and well in the Democratic Party
The Socialist Strategy
 by: Daniel Greenfield
Government is essentially a national management system, taking on those tasks that it would be unwise or unworkable to turn over to the free market. Good government functions as intended. Bad government takes over the nation and becomes an absolute force, looting and raiding public resources, suppressing individual freedoms in order to keep itself in power. In olden days this sort of government ..more http://www.canadafreepress.com
Another White House Name Surfaces in the ACORN Rolodex
Is this the link to explain how Van Jones got his job?Last week we showed how Barack Obama is connected to ACORN by his White House Political Director, Patrick Gaspard.The Missouri blog 24thstate.com has built on those ties and has a look at Sara Howard, Russ Carnahan's spokesgal. Howard and Gaspard both worked for Americans Coming Together ("ACT") in 2004. In that year, ACT sent out a sensational, hate filled political flier showing white men spraying black people with fire hoses in the sixties. The ACT flier claimed Republicans were trying to intimidate blacks into not voting.Turns out the printer of the flier, along with Gaspard and Howard, is in the rolodex.But the Editor of 24thstate.com brought to my attention another name I had missed - another White House worker and one in a critical position to tie ACORN and the SEIU into the White House and entire Executive Branch is on Bertha Lewis's contacts list.
Gibbs: 'I Have No Idea' If People Can Exclude Certain Diseases and Abortions from Electronic Health Records
(CNSNews.com) - When asked by CNSNews.com last week whether a person could opt out of having STDs or abortions included in their Electronic Health Records, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) said that listing such things would be up to the individual. On Monday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told CNSNews.com he had "no idea" if that was the case.Please click here for the rest of the post. http://www.cnsnews.com/
Obama Continues to Shake Iran's Clenched Fist
Rock is beating paper in this game
by Vivek Trivedi
September 28, 2009
"To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist." It was with these words that President Obama colonized the nation's confidence in late January of this year. A hope of planned and prudent confrontation with terrifying rogue states like Iran danced out of the heart of an optimistic America; a new wisdom was dawning. Yet, eight months later, the only dancing we seem to be doing is around our issues with Iran, while the realization dawning on America is that our government is suffering from an absence of heart. More…http://www.politicsunlocked.com
HEALTH CARE
Medicare 'Gag Order' A Sign That Obama, Democrats Are Desperate on Health Care, Republican Leader Says
(CNSNews.com) - Senate Republican leader Sen. Mitch McConnell said the recent gag order imposed by Medicare on insurance companies participating in the Medicare Advantage program showed that President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are desperate to pass their overhaul of the nation's health care system. "Their desperation is illustrated by trying to shut up critics of the bill."...more...http://www.CNSNews.com
Democrats Divide Over 'Public Option' as Health Care
Debate Continues most vigorous debates yet about its health care overhaul, arguing over The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday plunged into one of the whether to amend the draft proposal to add a government-run "public option."
Draconian Medicare Cuts, Fairness, The State Fair of Texas and Fried Butter - John-532037
Our new economy – the so-called "new normal" with fewer people working, consumers saying they have permanently changed spending and saving habits, and no stock market "bubble" in sight – will dramatically change the way leaders lead and businesses operate. http://www.newsvine.com
Home prices improve for sixth straight month - msnbc.com business (Source: msnbc.com)
A closely watched index of home prices shows year-over-year improvement for the sixth month in a row and prices in all 20 cities rose from June to July. More.. http://www.newsvine.com
Out-Foxing The Times

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Media: The New York Times, still smarting after losing scoops to Fox News, has thrown in the towel, vowing to avoid future embarrassment by monitoring the cable channel. We have a better idea - it's called reporting. Reform Unraveling
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Leadership: What kind of country would imprison citizens who felt it was in their best interest not to purchase health care insurance? We may soon find out. http://www.ibdaily.com/
The world's most expensive cars - msnbc.com business (Source: msnbc.com) While the most expensive luxury vehicles may seem excessive, there's still a market for them. More… http://www.newsvine.com/
TOP STORY -- OBAMA GOES FOR THE GOLD:
-BREAKING, from ChicagoTribune.com: 'United Airlines Flight No. 9890 carrying members of the Chicago Olympics delegation' left for Copenhagen at 9:49 p.m. CT.
--OBAMA RISKS PRESTIGE FOR CHICAGO -- POLITICO's Eamon Javers and Nia-Malika Henderson: 'The president could be embarrassed on a world stage if he doesn't land the games. Plus, more than a few Americans are surely scratching their heads - with his inbox crowded with a troop request for Afghanistan, a new secret nuclear site in Iran, sky-high unemployment and a health care bill in Congress, does the president really have time for this? Former Vice President Al Gore staffer Chris Lehane said the expectations will be high for Obama's trip: 'If they don't come back with the gold, clearly there will be the same questions that American basketball would get if they don't come back with the gold - they are expected to win.' ... The leaders of the three rivals - Brazil, Spain and Japan - will also be there. So the White House decided to go all in - calculating that Obama could also get blamed if he didn't make the trip and Chicago's bid fell short. 'You're darned if you do, and you're darned if you don't,' said first lady Michelle Obama in a briefing with reporters Monday. 'I'd rather be on the side of doing it, and I think that's how the president feels. This is not one of those where you worry about what happens if not.'Mike Allen's POLITICO Playbook <http://www.politicoplaybook@politico.com

 

WHAT' YOUR PRIVACY WORTH ??

Is your privacy worth $100?
Goldwater Institute Daily September 29, 2009
 By Nick Dranias

Confidentiality appears to be guaranteed by the Census Bureau when you fill out one of their mandatory surveys. But when it comes to sharing your private information with the federal government, the only real guarantee is that there isn't one.
The Patriot Act provides the legal authority for Homeland Security to gain access to confidential Census Bureau data through The National Center for EducationStatistics.But that authority isn't restricted to crafting education policy.
The law was amended in 2002 to authorize access by other federal agencies to NCES data for "investigation and prosecution of terrorism," which is broadly defined.
The only thing keeping Homeland Security away from your confidential Census Bureau data in the NCES' possession is the requirement that the Attorney General apply for a court order before it can access it. But the court's only function is to confirm the application shows "the information sought" is "relevant" to "investigating or prosecuting" a laundry list of federal offenses. This is a far lower standard than the test of probable cause required for criminal search warrants. Unless someone botches the application, the court's only real power is to verify it was signed.
The bottom line is that not much stands between Janet Napolitano and your confidential census data. Fortunately, you risk no more than a $100 fine for each question you do not answer; and it is unlikely you will be fined more than once. So the question to ask yourself is whether your privacy is worth $100--or whether the Census should be reformed to ask the only question the U.S. Constitution actually authorizes: "How many people reside in your household?" Nick DraniasGoldwaterInstitute
http://www.ndranias@goldwaterinstitute.org
Nick Dranias holds the Goldwater Institute Clarence J. and Katherine P. Duncan chair for constitutional government and is the director of the Institute's Dorothy D. and Joseph A. Moller Center for Constitutional Government.
Learn More:
20 U.S.C. § 9573(e): Entire law
U.S. Constitution: Art. 1, Sec. 2 (census authority)
Memo of law: Confidentiality in Census Data

THE OBAMA HEALTH CARE TAXES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=864kh6hJlyg

When Obama Talks About What "Health Insurance Reform" Will Do For You, Here Are 8 Things He Doesn't Mention

#1: THE OBAMA-REID HEALTH INSURANCE TAX
Senate Dems' Bill Includes Tax On Health Insurance Policies Over $8,000 Per Individual And $21,000 Per Family, Raising Premiums On Many Americans. "The thinking behind the tax is that it would raise hundreds of millions of dollars while at the same time curbing health-care spending by leading insurers or employers to stop offering the costliest plans to avoid the tax, or passing the tax on to employees in the form of higher premiums, which might lead employees to seek cheaper plans." (Chairman's Mark, "America's Healthy Future Act Of 2009," Introduced 9/16/09; Alec MacGillis, "Ahead Of Obama's AFL-CIO Appearance, Labor Officials Express Concern Over Excise Tax," The Washington Post's "Daily Dose" Blog, 9/15/09)
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) Rips This As "Big, Big Tax" Hitting Many Americans. "He should understand that (his proposal) means that virtually every single coal miner is going to have a big, big tax put on them because the tax will be put on the company and the company will immediately pass it down and lower benefits because they are self insured, most of them, because they are larger. They will pass it down, lower benefits, and probably this will mean higher premiums for coal miners who are getting very good health care benefits for a very good reason. That is, like steelworkers and others, they are doing about the most dangerous job that can be done in America.'" (Teddy Davis, "Dem Senator Warns Of 'Big, Big Tax' On Middle Class In Baucus Bill," ABC News's "The Note" Blog, 9/16/09)
#2: THE OBAMA-REID MEDICAL INNOVATION TAX
Senate Dems' Bill Has New Taxes On Medical Devices, Raising Costs For Health Care Services. "The medical-device industry is organizing companies that make everything from CT scans to contact lenses to fight a proposed $4 billion annual fee on device makers, arguing that companies across the board could get hit with the fees. And the industry is trying to rally companies that make even mundane items like condoms and Q-tips to fight the fee, as well. ... 'They're going to get walloped upside the head with a new tax during a struggling economy,' he [AdvaMed chief lobbyist Brett Loper] said. 'Hopefully, we can convince enough people that a medical products tax will only increase the costs.'" (Chris Frates and Carrie Budoff Brown, "Medical-Device Makers Launch Blitz," Politico, 9/14/09)
Dem Senators Oppose This Tax Because It Will Reduce Medical Innovation. "The four senators from Minnesota and Indiana on Tuesday called on Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus to remove the $4 billion annual fee on device companies he proposed to help pay for reform. 'At a time when every effort is being made to promote small business and growth industries of the future, the proposed medical device tax would harm economic development and health care innovation nationally and in our states,' Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) and Al Franken (D-Minn.) wrote in a letter to Baucus on Tuesday." (Chris Frates, "Minn. And Indy Senators Call On Baucus To Remove $4 Billion Annual Fee On Device Companies," Politico's "Live Pulse" Blog, 9/15/09)
#3: THE OBAMA-PELOSI SMALL BUSINESSES SUCCESS TAX
House Dems' Bill Has $550 Billon Income Tax Hike On Many Small Businesses. "Beginning in 2011, the plan would target all income over $350,000 a year for families and $280,000 a year for individuals ... The surtax would start at 1 percent, rise to around 1.5 percent for families earning more than $500,000, then step up again, to around 3 percent, for families earning more than $1 million ... That would raise about $550 billion over the next decade ..." "This [surtax] would hit job creators especially hard because more than six of every 10 who earn that much are small business owners, operators or investors, according to a 2007 Treasury study... America's successful small businesses would pay higher tax rates than the Fortune 500, and for that matter than most companies around the world ..." (Lori Montgomery, "Democrats Agree On Tax Hike To Fund Health Care," The Washington Post, 7/13/09; Editorial, "The Small Business Surtax," The Wall Street Journal, 7/14/09)
That Could Lead To Over 450,000 Jobs Lost Over Next 10 Years. "Job losses would mount over time as potential high-income earners forgo job-creating endeavors; By 2019, the economy would offer 452,000 fewer jobs than it would have without the reforms; Self-employed individuals as a group would have $16 billion less income in 2019 (nominal dollars); The surtax would impose a deadweight cost of $12.8 billion in lost gross domestic product (GDP) in 2011, rising to $68.2 billion by 2019 and costing taxpayers an average of $46.7 billion per year; A typical family of four would have $995 less in disposable income in 2019 -- enough to pay for routine annual checkups for the four individuals." (Karen Campbell Ph.D., "Current Health Insurance Reform Proposals Vs. Real Reform And Economic Growth," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder #2321, 9/23/09)
#4: THE OBAMA-REID MIDDLE-CLASS TAX
Senate Dems' "Individual Mandate" A Tax On Middle-Class Families Who Can't Afford Insurance. Joint Committee On Taxation Chief Of Staff Thomas Barthold: "Senator Grassley, the penalty proposed in the Chairman's mark, is as you observed, it's structured as a penalty excise tax, we have other penalty excise taxes in the internal revenue code ... We have not done a combined distribution analyses across income to specifically answer your question but to the extent that yes we think that some people would be subject to the penalty excise tax when everything shakes out we would expect that some would have incomes less than $200,000 dollars." (George Stephanopoulos, "Mandate Or Tax? Grassley V. Baucus," ABC News's "George's Bottom Line" Blog, 9/22/09)
House Dems' Bill Also Has "Individual Mandate" Which Imposes 2.5 Percent Income Tax On Uninsured Individuals. "The penalty assessed on people who would be subject to the mandate but did not obtain insurance would equal 2.5 percent of the difference between their adjusted gross income (modified to include tax-exempt interest and certain other sources of income) and the tax filing threshold ..." (Douglas W. Elmendorf, "Preliminary Analysis Of The Insurance Coverage Specifications Provided By The House Tri-Committee Group," Letter To Chairman Rangel, 7/17/09)
No Wonder Obama Attacked Hillary Clinton Over This Tax During Campaign. "Senator Clinton believes the only way to achieve universal health care is to force everybody to purchase it ... and my belief is the reason that people don't have it is not because they don't want it, but because they can't afford it." (Michael Luo, "Check Point," The New York Times, 2/22/08)
#5: THE OBAMA-PELOSI JOB TAX
House Dems' Bill Makes Employers Who Can't Afford Health Insurance For Their Employees Pay Tax Equal To 8 Percent Of Their Payroll. "America's Affordable Health Choices Act will continue the principle of shared responsibility. ... Require that larger employers, however, must comply with the 'Pay-or-Play' requirements (that is, they must offer insurance to their employees or pay a payroll tax of 8 percent)." (House Committees On Ways And Means, Energy And Commerce, And Education And Labor, "Employers And Health Reform," Fact Sheet, 7/14/09)
Senate Dems' Proposal Also Includes Large Tax On These Businesses, Making It More Difficult For Employers To Hire Workers They Need. "[E]mployers who do not offer 'affordable' coverage to employees would have to help pay the cost of such benefits for their low-income workers ... The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal research and advocacy group, said this proposal 'could unintentionally discourage the hiring of lower-income people,' by adding a new 'health surcharge' to the cost of employing them." (Chairman's Mark, "America's Healthy Future Act Of 2009," Introduced 9/16/09; Jeff Zeleny and Robert Pear, "Obama Says Government Health Coverage Plan Would Not Hurt Private Insurers," The New York Times, 6/23/09)
#6: THE OBAMA-REID STATE TAX
Senate Dems' $900 Billion Bill Would Force States To Pick Up New Costs Of Government-Run Health Care. "Members of the Senate Finance Committee said they might require states to pay a larger share, perhaps 15 percent or 20 percent of the new costs. Governors of both parties object to such requirements as an 'unfunded mandate.'" (Sen. Max Baucus, "Baucus Introduces Landmark Plan To Lower Health Care Costs, Provide Quality, Affordable Coverage," Press Release, 9/16/09; Robert Pear and David M. Herszenhorn, "New Objections To Baucus Health Care Proposal," The New York Times, 9/14/09)
And Governors Expressing "Bipartisan Animosity" Over Costs Being Dumped On Their States Because It Could Force Them To Raise Taxes. "The nation's governors, Democrats as well as Republicans, voiced deep concern Sunday about the shape of the health care plan emerging from Congress, fearing that Washington was about to hand them expensive new Medicaid obligations without money to pay for them. The role of the states in a restructured health care system dominated the summer meeting of the National Governors Association here this weekend -- with bipartisan animosity voiced against the plan ... Although many governors said significant change in how the nation handles health care was needed, they said their deep-seated fiscal troubles made it a terrible time to shift costs to the states. With the recession draining states of tax revenues even as their Medicaid rolls are surging, the National Governors Association projects that states will face aggregate deficits of $200 billion over the next three years." (Kevin Sack And Robert Pear, "Governors Fear Medicaid Costs In Health Plan," The New York Times, 7/20/09)
#7: THE OBAMA-REID DOCTOR TAX
Senate Dems' Bill Requires Physicians To Pay Tax Of Up To $350 In Order To Treat Medicare Patients. "The Chairman's Mark would require that the Secretary screen all providers and suppliers before granting Medicare billing privileges ... An application fee of $350 would be imposed on providers and suppliers to cover the costs of screening. Current providers could be subject to a discounted screening fee of $250 if they pay it within 12 months of enactment." (Chairman's Mark, "America's Healthy Future Act Of 2009," Introduced 9/16/09)
#8: THE OBAMA CHARITY TAX
Obama Proposed Limiting Income Tax Deductions To Help Pay For His Health Care Experiment, But Dem Leaders Say It Would Hurt Charities And Other Non-Profit Organizations. "Limit income-tax deductions for high earners: This is Mr. Obama's main idea for raising revenue... Democratic leaders immediately objected that that would hurt charities, universities and other entities dependent on tax-deductible donations, as well as taxpayers in high-tax cities and states, including New York City and other places home to Democratic leaders." (Jackie Calmes, "Obama And Congress Clash On How To Pay For Health Care," The New York Times, 6/26/09) RNC research: http://www.gop.com/

FOIA Exposes Communist seedbed for Obama Associates

 Declassified FBI report exposes Communist seedbed for Obama Associates — Part I

September 26, 2009 by John Charlton

DOCUMENTS RECEIVED VIA FOIA REQUEST

by John Charlton

(Sept. 26, 2009) — The Post & Email has received tonight a declassified FBI report admitted in evidence in the case brought against W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller by President Jimmy Carter's U.S. Attorney General, Mr. Griffin B. Bell. This document was obtained by an American citizen, who wished to remain anonymous, via a FOIA request.

Mr. W. Mark  Felt is none other than the informant who spoke with reporters from the Washington Post, exposing the Watergate Scandal:  who went by the name "Deep Throat" a fact that points to his political neutrality in American politics.

What is not know about Mr. Felt is that he was prosecuted by the Carter Administration for civil rights violations against members of the Weather Underground, the radical Marxist terrorist organization founded by Bill Ayers and company.  Mr. Felt had authorized break-ins without a warrant, an act declared a violation of 4th  Amendment rights by the Supreme Court in United States v. U.S. District Court, 407 U.S. 297 (1972).  Many agents, consequently, were subsequently prosecuted.

The detailed information contained on communist activities is dumbfounding.  The report details the early connections between the Weathermen and international Marxist organizations, and shows their relationships. The report begins thus:

The FBI (aslo referred to herein as "the Bureau") has the responsibility of uncovering and neutralizing intelligence activities of foreign countries in the United States.  In the U.S. this function is solely the responsibility of the Bureau.

Historically, the United States has been the target of subversive efforts direcetd by the international comunist movement to foment disorder and disruption in a revolutionary vein.  These efforts were channeled into this country through the activities of communist-bloc diplomatic establishmens and old-line communist groups and organizations working to advance international communist objectives. These old-line comunist groups included the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), the Progressive Labor Party (PLP), and the Socialist Worker's Party (SWP).

The emergence of the New Left and black exremist movements in our society drastically altered the situation posed by old-line communist organizations.  They evolved mostly out of social reform movements which were transformed into hard-core revolutionary movements dedicated to the total destruction of our democratic traditions and our society.  They produced a new breed of revolutionaries whose main preoccupation with communism was that it produced men like Mao Tse-tung, Ho Chi Minh, and Che Guevarra, whom they hoped to emulate in the overthrow of system they deemed oppressive.

The FBI report then names names, and exposes key members of the Communist network in the U.S.A., who had ties to Ayers:

For example, Kathy Boudin's father was a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and a registered Cuban agent. He was named in a prepared briefing on espinage and subversive activity given to President Eisenhower and others at a National Security Council meeting in 1956.  In 1964, Kathy Boudin was invited by the Cuban Mission to the United Nations (CMUN) to attend a Cuban July 26th celebration.  She spent her senior year of college at Moscow University, Moscow, USSR (1964-65).  Boudin went to the USSR on her own and not through any special sutent program.  While in the USSR she receieved 75 rubles per month from the Russian government as a stipend.  Her father also sent her materials on the Amreican Youth Festival which was to be held in Algeria while she was in Russia, and told her that while in Prague he was told that if she wanted to attend as an itnerpreter, it could be arranged. In the course of attempting to arrage a meeting in the United States with Kathy Boudin, a Soviet official contacter her ftaher, Leonard Boudin.  Thereafter, Kathy Boudin was observed entering the Soviety Embassy. IN 1967, she traveled back to the Soviet Union.  Kathy Boudin became a member of SDS and later became a Weatherman.

SDS is the abbreviation for Students for a Democratic Society founded in 1962, from which the Weatherman terrorist organization sprouted, and in which Bill Ayers and many associates were members.  The FBI report continues:

The April 17, 1965 demonstrations sponsored by SDS, were participated in by communist-dominated organizations including the CPUSA, the CPUSA youth group Web Dubola Club of America (DCA), Socialist Workers Party (SWP).  Lincoln Bergman, later to become a Weatherman, was one of thand the e coordinators of this demonstration.  Lincoln had participated in communist organizations and activities prior to this time.

Gus Hall, General Secretary for CPUSA, claimed that CPUSA officials and members had taken part in the leadership, planning and initiation of these demonstrations and he told the CPUSA Secretariate that the peace struggle was one of the main projects of the Party and would be pushed on a full-time basis.  Communist and other subversive organizations thereafter were extremely active in demonstrations …

Here the report omits 9 pages of evidence, and continues

… a coalition of groups which would include radical SDA elements and militant black radicals.  Leibel did not want Lincoln or Arlene to join the RU.  He believed that they could more effectively operate among New Left as a "Movement" people without formal RU memberships.  It was his view that Arlene and Lincoln should use their contacts with New Left people through "The Movement", which was run by them ad viewed as the voice of SDS, to develop information for him on potential RU recruits.  Articles in "The Movment" dealt with such topics as the German students' struggle against imperialism, demonstrations against the draft, interviews with leaders of the Cuban Communist Party, and favorable reports of activities in the Cuban Government.  "The Movement" also distrubuted Cuban Communist propaganda received through the Communist news agengy (Prensa Latina).

Through his son and daughter-in-law, Liebel Bergman had the opportunity to meet SDS members and guide their activity. Based on the groups with which Leibel was in contact, including "JOIN", an SDS organization, and the fact that Lincoln and Arlene worked for "The Movement", the FBI speculated that Leibel intended to operate within the framework of already established militant leftist groups and would use Lincoln and Arlene as a means of meeting members of these organizations and guiding their activity.  The FBI proceeded to conduct its investigative activity on this premise.  Indeed, the FBI had information that throughout 1968, Arlene was in almost daily contact with her father-in-law, obviously working with him and/or accepting his counsel.

SDS was an important subject within the CPUSA in early 1968.  The Party decied to fight for CP ideology within SDS; to include articles on SDS in its publications; and to begin to put many more CP youth (cadre) directly into SDS and into the SDS national office in order to get direct access to the SDS leadership.  The ned and possibility for greater communist participation in SDS, and the possibilities for CPUSA recruitment from SDS, were emphasized.  Rennie Davis at this time associated with Don Hamerquist of the CPUSA National Committe who was working with the New Left to formulate a program for a communist movement in the US.

The FBI report then details the Communist ties of future Weathermen:

The first known trip of significance to Cuba occured in January, 1968 when Carl Davidson, Todd Gitlin, Gerry Long, Susan Sutheim and Tom Hayden traveled to Cuba to attend the International Culterual Congress (Long and Sutheim later became Weatherman). David Dellinger of the NMC also attended this conference, as did many communists and revolutionaries from around the world.  The announced purpose of this conference was to obtain unity of action in Cuban anti-imperialism fights and to spread revolution and hatred of the U.S.  The theme was the "Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism."  At this conference delegates condemned the U.S. fr what the communists alleged was U.S. aggression, and support was pledged to North Vietanam.  The delegates also pledged to promote violence against the United States whenever it was deemed necessarsy.  The attendees also met with representatives of Red China, North Korea and North Vietnam and visited the National Liberation Front (NLF) Mission in Havana. During this three and one half week trip, Davidson finalized arrangement for a visit of twenty SDS members to travel to Cuba.

Thereafter, in February, 1968, a group of approximately twenty-two people including futuer Weatherman Mark Rudd and approximately nineteen other SDS/Weathermen members, and two Cuban Government officials with diplomatic status traveled to Cuba via Mexico City at the request of the Cuban Government, which paid all of the expenses.  On of the Cuban Government officials in the gorup was the former First Secretary at the Cuban Mission to the United Nations (CMUN) who was also a Cuban Intelligence Officer.  While in Mexico City, the group stayed at the Cuban Consulate.  Several of the SDS members had previously traveled to other foreign countries friendly to Cuba.  The group was destined to the Instituto Cubano para Amistad entre lso Pueblos (ICAO-Cuban Institute for Friendship between Peoples).  Although the ICAP operated as a cultural exchange organization on the surface, it was in fact the Cuban Governement's School for Ideological Indoctrination and their chief instrumentality for providing training to foreign radicals in revolutionary and guerrilla tactics.  Rudd and others visited the ICAP on thsi trip.  During their four-week visit, SDS members also talked with representatives of the NLP (the politcial arm of the Viet Cong) and with individuals from North Korea.

Upon his return from Cuba, Mark Rudd was elected Chairman of the SDS Chapter at Columbia University and became a leader of violent disturbances. (It was believed by the FBI that such distrubances were planned in Cuba and that the visitors to Cuba received specific instruction from Cuban officials in regard to the demonstrations.) At Columbia Rudd led the largest student strike in the United States.  Although there had been various demonstrations in prior years, the main fearure of the Spring 1968 strike that distinguished it from earlier demonstrations was Rudd's brand of confrontational poltiics which involved physical confrontation, including the take over of buildings and the ransacking of offices.  By the end of April , 1968, 700 to 1000 studens had taken over five university buildings and eventually had to be removed by a force of 1000 policemen.  In addition to Rudd, a number of others involved in the leadership of the Columbia strike later played prominent roles in the Weatherman.  They included Ted Gold, John Jacobs, Robert Roth, Martin Kenner and Jonah Raskin.  Rudd was later interviews about the Columbia riots by the Cuban publication, Prensa Latina.

SDS member Carl Davidson again visited Cuba in March.  He and others had a three hour discussion with Fidel Castro, and reportedly met with representatives of North Korea, North Vietnam and Commnist China.  During the militant Labor Forum, held in April, Davidson reported on his meeting with Castro, stating that Castro now belieed that a socialist revolution was possible in the U.S.

During April, SDS activist Steven Halliwell visited North Vietnam. Ken Cloke later to become a Weatherman and RU member also met with a North Vietnamese delegation during this time in Sweden.

Perhaps it  is only a coincidence, but Judge Jerome B. Simandle, before whose court the Kerchner case is languishing, also studied in Sweeden just a few years later. Sweden was notorious during the Cold War for meetings between western subversives and KGB and other commnist agents; and not a few westerners were formally recruited as KGB agents during their stay in Sweden.

The FBI report continues:
At the 1968 June SDS National Convention meeting it was decided that SDS shoudl align itself with students from other countries. The convention adopted resolutoins of solidarity with the students of Germany and France and with the Iranian Student Association.  The resolution dealing with Iran stated in part:
"To besend by telegram to the Iranian Student Association. SDS expresses its solidarity with your continuing fight against the dictatorship wich oppresses your homeland .. . . Your fight against the Shah, the fight of the Germand SDS aginst Kiesinger, of the French against deGaulle, of the Japanese against Sato — these are a few of teh curernt fronts of a single war.  WE are your allies and brothers."
Members of the CPUSA, DCA, RLP, SWP and the SWP youth group Young Student Alliance (YSA) attended the convention.  Karen Wald also attended and was working at the SDS national office as of this time.  (She was also a mbmer of the editorial group of "The Movement", and previously associated with the YSA.  A year earlier, Wald has traveld to Cuba.)  Bernardine Dohrn was elected Interogranizational Secretary, and stated that she considered herself a revolutionary communist.  Mike Klonsky, elected SDS National Secretary, also publically identified himself as a revolutionary communist. (Klonsky's father was the former Organizational Secreatary of the Eastern Pennsylvania-Deleware District of the CPUSA.  His mother was also a form CPUSA member.)
At the convention, a workshop on sabotage and explosives was held. Eariler in the year, a pamphelt bearing the inscriptin "An Argument for Sabotage as the Next Logical Step Toward Obstruction and Disruption of the U.S. War Machine" was mailed from Toronto, Canada to over 300 antiwar groups throughout the U.S.  The document urged the use of incendiary devices and included detailed instruction and diagrams.  The illegal and clandestine nature of such violent activity was emphasized.  Also, it was during this convention that Naomi Jaffe, later to become a Weatherman, claimed to have shot down an American fighter plane with an anti-aircraft gun and to have assisted in the capture of an American pilot during her earlier trip to Hanoi. She word a small . . .
http://thepostnemail.wordpress.com:80/2009/09/26/declassified-fbi-report-exposes-communist-seedbed-for-obama-associates/
The Post & Email will continue its transcription of the remaining half of this important document tomorrow.

 

 

MAJOR MILITARY ALERT

'Major Alert'

The U.S. Navy has "OVER" 5 U.S. Navy Ships 
***UNABLE TO FULLFILL THEIR DUTIES****
At present confirmed 1 a/c carrier ,2 destroyers, 1 helicopter a/c carrier over 30,000 assorted Military, mostly USN & USMC Some Coast Guard, National Guard & some Air Force.

US MARKETS

Data gleaned indirectly from anonymous testimony of Navy wives of the affected crew via the internet radio show A Marine Disquisition <http://www.clipser.com/watch_video/1362067:

1. Unnamed US Navy vessel put to sea in April with 347 man crew.
   
2. Entire crew was vaccinated with H1N1 Swine Flu vaccine shortly after they put to sea.
   
3. Crew sickened so severely that other ships had to respond to render aid.  16 Medical Dr.s put aboard from an unnamed aircraft carrier and other responding vessels.  Total of 50 Navy personnel sent aboard to respond to crisis.
   
4. Two of the crew of 347 died - including the Captain of the ship (a Lieutenant Commander) and a Chief Petty Officer.
   
5. 50 personnel sent aboard to help are quarantined in Navy hospital in Balboa, Spain after 10 of them caught the flu from the ship's crew.  Two of the 50 quarantined are in serious condition at last report.
   
6. Of the 347 man crew that were vaccinated, 333 contracted the H1N1 flu FROM THE VACCINE.  Two died, as mentioned above, and 331 survived.  Only 14 of the 347 vaccinated sailors did not show any ill effects from the vaccine.
   
7. Navy has threatened all the spouses of the ship's crew to remain silent - claiming all this information is classified.  Some are whistle-blowing and that is where this information is coming from.
   
8. On the unnamed aircraft carrier that provided assistance, 415 sailors contracted the swine flu and are currently quarantined onboard. 
   PLEASE pass this email along.  The truth is that the swine flu epidemic will be created BY THE VACCINE.  If we don't take it, there will be no epidemic.  From this one test it's apparent that the vaccine as tested on that ship's crew in April is 96% effective at infecting the recipient with swine flu.  Such an infection rate is impossible to achieve by any natural means.  Though it only killed 1% immediately, there is no telling what the long term effects on those injected with the vaccine will be.  See the research on the long term effects of the 1976 swine flu vaccine, and the Gulf War anthrax vaccine programs for more information.Also note that mere contact with those that have been vaccinated creates a 20% chance of you contracting the swine flu even if you have not been vaccinated.  Please pass this data along to anyone you care about!
   Here is the link to the Navy Article
   
9. http://thepowerhour.org/news4/opnav-3500-41.pdfhttp://www.FireCongress.org
   http://www.FireCongress.Meetup.com
   http://www.wagthedog2010.com
   http://www.endthefed.us
   http://oath-keepers.blogspot.com/
   http://www.InfoWars.com
   http://www.committeesofsafety.org/
   
   
   
   
   

SENATE EARMARK $20 MILLION for TED KENNEDY MEMORIAL

Senate Plans Billions in Earmarks, Including $20M for Ted Kennedy Memorial

A big military spending bill making its way through Congress is (rightfully) drawing fire from fiscal conservatives... like myself.  The bill includes an earmark submitted by Sen. John Kerry (D-Ma.) that has absolutely nothing to do with national defense: $20 million for an "educational institute" honoring late Senator Ted Kennedy.  The earmark...requires US taxpayers to help the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate realize its goal of building a repository for Kennedy's papers and an accompanying civic learning center on the University of Massachusetts at Boston campus in Dorchester, next to the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. It's bad enough that a politician would ask taxpayers to pay millions for an unnecessary project--let alone one the late Senator's own family could easily afford--but why does this money have to come out of the Defense Department's budget?  This "educational institute" isn't even so much a place for learning as it is enshrining Kennedy: The institute will serve as a focal point for the late Massachusetts senator's legacy, much as presidential libraries do. It will house Kennedy's official papers and oral histories from the nearly half-century he served in the Senate. I might not agree with it, but I will admit: it's hard to imagine a more fitting way to honor Senator Kennedy's career than squandering millions in taxpayer money.  Think that's bad?  According to the Washington Examiner, the Kerry earmark is FAR from being the only one.  In total, there are "778 earmarks totaling more than $2.65 billion" being included in the defense bill from members of BOTH parties.  Are we fed-up yet, America?  Do you suppose "no earmarks" Obama will veto this monstrosity?  Yeah, I don't think so either. Townhall blog Posted by: Meredith Jessup at 7:22 AM

TRUTH OR FUNNIES

SINCE AMERICAN FREEDOM IS DEVOTED MOSTLY TO POLITICS and
this past week has been so depressing with Obama giving a speech every 5 minutes, I decided this web site could use a little political levity....or maybe this past week was all the levity from politicians we needed?
INTRODUCING DON RICKLES on POLITICIANS

Hello, dummies! Oh my God, look at you. Anyone else hurt in the
accident?

Seriously, Senator Harry Reid
has a face of a Saint - A Saint Bernard. Now I know why they call you the arithmetic man. You add partisanship, subtract pleasure, divide attention, and multiply ignorance. Reid is so physically unimposing, he makes Pee Wee Herman look like

Mr. T. And Reid's so dumb, he makes Speaker Pelosi look like an intellectual. Nevada is soooo screwed! If I
were less polite, I'd say Reid makes Kevin Federline look successful..

Speaking of the Speaker...
Nancy Pelosi, hubba, hubba! Hey baby, you must've been something before electricity. Seriously, the Speaker may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. She really is an idiot. Madame Speaker...

Want to make twelve bucks the hard way? Pelosi says she's not partisan, but her constituents call her Madame Pelossilini.

Charlie Rangel.. Still alive and still robbing the taxpayers blind. What does that make,six decades of theft? Rangel's the only man with a rent-controlled mansion. He's the guy who writes our tax laws but forgot to pay taxes on $75 grand in rental income! So why isn't he the Treasury Secretary? Rangel runs more scams than a Nigerian Banker.

Barney Frank - he's a better actor than Fred Flintstone. Consider... He and Dodd caused the whole financial meltdown and they're not only not serving time with Bubba and Rodney, they're still heading up the financial system! Let's all admit it...Barney Frank slobbers more than a sheepdog on Novocain. How did this guy get elected? Oh, that's right... he's from  Massachusetts . That's the state that elects Mr. Charisma, John Kerry -- man of the people!
 
You know, if Senator Dodd were any more crooked, you could open wine bottles with him.Here's a news flash, Dodd: when your local newspaper calls you a "lying weasel", it may be time to retire. Dodd's involved in more shady deals than the  Clintons . Even Rangel looks up to him!

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, I really respect you... Especially given your upbringing. you've overcome... I heard your birth certificate is an apology from the condom factory. I don't know what makesyou so dumb, but it really works for you. Personally, I don't think you're a fool, but what's my opinion compared to that of thousands of others? Gibbs does his best expositional work in the bathroom every morning.

As for President Obama, what can I say? They say President Obama's arrogant and aloof, but I don't agree. Now it's true when you enter the room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket. His mind is open to new ideas -- so open that ideas simply pass through it. Obama lies so much, I was actually surprised to find out his first name really was Barack. Just don't ask about his middle name! But Obama was able to set a record... He actually lied more in 60 days than Bill Clinton. As far as his administration -- what with the tax cheat and lobbyists --well, in the words of Patches O'Houlihan, "It's like watching a bunch of retards trying to hump a doorknob out there."With all due respect FOR THOSE THAT VOTED FOR
"HOPE AND CHANGE"... BEND OVER AND PREPARE TO RECEIVE YOUR BOUNTY

LET AMERICA READ THE BILLS.

Last week, House Republicans called on Speaker Pelosi to hold an immediate, stand-alone, up-or-down vote on the Defund ACORN Act. Republicans also began an effort to force the Speaker to post major bills online for at least three days before a vote by Congress. And as of today, 135 days have passed as President Obama refuses to meet with Republicans to discuss common sense health care reforms. Here's more on these and other issues on our radar this week:
LET AMERICA READ THE BILLS. Republicans began an effort to force Speaker Pelosi to give lawmakers and the public at least 72 hours to review major bills before a vote in Congress.
• Boehner: Dems Will "Have a Much Harder Time Passing All This Garbage" if Public Can Read the Bills
• Boehner on FOX: Give America 72 Hours to Read the Bills
• Call on Speaker Pelosi to Give America 72 Hours to Read the Bills
NOT ONE MORE DIME TO ACORN. Republicans are engaged in a multi-layered effort to cut off all taxpayer funding for ACORN and sever all its government ties, once and for all.
• Boehner Praises IRS for Severing Ties with ACORN
• Boehner Says the "Writing is on the Wall" for ACORN
• Not One More Dime to ACORN, Declares GOP
• Boehner to Introduce Legislation Cutting Off All Taxpayer Funding to ACORN
DEMOCRATS STILL PUSHING GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER. Democrats continue to push for a costly health care takeover, ignoring better solutions by Republicans that won't raise taxes, add to the deficit, limit treatment options, or create a massive government-run plan.
 Post Office Bailout Not a Good Sign for Government-Run Health Care
• CBO• Director: Dems' Health Care Takeover Will Cut Medicare Advantage Benefits in Half
• Yes Mr. President, Forcing Americans to Spend Money is a "Tax"
• Medical Liability Reform Lowers Costs, Creates Jobs in Mississippi
GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY. Americans are growing wearier of the jobs-killing, big spending Obama-Pelosi agenda.
• Biden Calls GOP Victory in 2010 "Doomsday" for Obama-Pelosi Agenda
• Gallup: 57 Percent of Americans Say "Government Is Doing Too Much"
• National Energy Tax Will Slow Economic Recovery, Not Climate Change
• Obama Administration: "Cap &Trade" Could Cost Families $1,761 Per Year
• Obama Backs Jobs-Killing Card Check Bill (Again)
• Boehner: President Failed to Provide "Clear Exit Strategy" from Washington Bailouts
• Republican Regulatory Reform Bill Will End the Bailouts, Protect Taxpayers
THANK YOU. Thanks to your support, The Freedom Project is helping reform-minded candidates for Congress while holding Democrats accountable and promoting an agenda of freedom and security. Thank you again and please stay in touch. http://www.freedomproject.org

OLD WEST GUN FIGHT TEXAS...MEXICO BORDER

GUN FIGHTS ….TEXAS …MEXICO BORDER

OBAMA CUTS BORDER PATROL AGENTS EFFECTIVE OCT 1  - 384 fewer agents to patrol Arizona-Mexico border: http://www.maicopagop.com
THE BATTLE SCENES FROM MATAMOROS, MEXICO.  THIS WAS A FIRE-FIGHT LAST WEEK BETWEEN FEDERAL POLICE AND THE GULF DRUG CARTEL MEMBERS IN MATAMOROS, WHICH IS ACROSS THE RIVER FROM BROWNSVILLE,Texas  
SOME OF THE BULLETS FLEW ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE RIVER AND STRUCK BUILDINGS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE, AS WELL AS A STUDENT'S AUTO IN THE UNIVERSITY PARKING LOT.  Note the Texas License Plates…. Information and photo's from embedded source at the border.
Being a native Texan the above information is especially disturbing to me. At a time when Terrorist plots are being thwarted in Texas and with a porous southern border that at this tme the President would choose to cut border protection. America is in danger of Mexican gangsters having gun fights on the streets of border cities, reminiscent of the lawless old west, unless the southern border is secured. be

OBAMA, THEORY, CONSPIRACY or FACTS ????

The Theory is Now a Conspiracy And Facts Don't Lie

By J.B. Williams

September 10, 2009

Though we live in an era when all undesirable facts are often blindly labeled "conspiracy theories" by political operatives with an agenda at risk, a very real conspiracy unfolds every now and then.

While it is indeed true that not all theories are actual conspiracies, like when Hillary Clinton developed an imaginary "right-wing conspiracy" out to get her husband, when in fact, the semen stained dress provided all the necessary (but unfriendly) facts and a perfectly logical explanation for all of those nasty rumors Ð it is also true that some conspiracies are much more than just crackpot theory.

To be a bonafide conspiracy, two or more individuals must knowingly conspire, plot or plan an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious act. In politics or law, an agreement by two or more persons to commit a crime, fraud, or other wrongful act, is a "conspiracy." Not in theory, but in reality.http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/14741


The Theory is Now a Conspiracy—II
An Ongoing Citizen Investigation, Certification of Obama's eligibility
By
JB Williams
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
For a few years now, I have been stating that there is no political savior, no silver bullet and no government agency that was going to save the United States of America from the heavy hand of federal tyranny wrapped around the throat of every American citizen, namely American taxpayers. As it was in the beginning, so shall it be today. It is the average American, not the powerful politician, or the Ivy League elitist, or even the so-called "eyes and ears of the people," the press, who must rise up by the millions and demand control of their country, acting as a single unit in the defense of freedom and liberty, not partisan power.
And so it is…
Over a million average Americans traveled from over forty-five states across the country, to gather in Washington DC this past weekend, in peaceful opposition to all that is wrong with our current federal government run wild. But that was only one public demonstration of the largest gathering of citizens in US history, of all political, ethnic, economic stripes, with one purpose in mind. Saving their country! http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/15127

The Theory is Now a Conspiracy – III
DNC Failed to Certify Obama as Eligible in MOST States!
By
JB Williams
Friday, September 25, 2009
When I first became aware that the Democratic National Committee prepared, signed and notarized two slightly different Certification of Nomination documents for the Obama-Biden ticket in the 2008 election, I was shocked and after verifying both documents as real, I wrote about it in The Theory is Now a Conspiracy and Facts Don't Lie released on September 10, 2009.
The question was obvious – Why TWO different DNC Obama certification documents, and why did one have proper certification of constitutional eligibility in it, while the other had that certification deleted?
The Obama camp had been using the defense that the DNC had properly vetted and certified Obama's eligibility for months. Judge after judge had used that claim and the fact that Obama's COLB (Certification of Live Birth) had been "Snoped – FactChecked – blogged and twittered" as "legal proof" that Obama was eligible for office, despite the very real fact that Obama has never released any authenticated proof on the subject. http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/

DEMOCRATS REJECT ALL REPUBLICAN SOLUTIONS

RNC STATEMENT ON SENATE HEALTH CARE MARK-UP

 WASHINGTON – Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele released the following statement today:

"If Americans are looking to separate fact from fiction on health care reform, they need look no further than this week's proceedings in the Senate. Every time Democrats had the opportunity to back up the president's words with their votes, they failed to do so. Republicans offered an amendment to avoid cutting Medicare benefits, but Democrats rejected it. Republicans offered an amendment prohibiting a government board that would ration care, but Democrats rejected it. Republicans offered amendments to prevent tax increases to pay for government-run health care, but Democrats rejected them, too.

 "Democrats have rejected amendment after amendment offered by Republicans. They opted to put the political agenda of President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi ahead of our economy and our health care system time after time.  What voters learned this week is Democrats, including Sens. Lincoln and Conrad, are clearly more interested in brushing aside Republican ideas and ramming through a government-run health care plan that Americans don't want and can't afford."  http://gop.com/

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                  Democrats Refuse to Allow Vote on Measure to Save $84Billion
Washington, D.C. – Republican Study Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) issued the following statement after Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats in charge refused to allow Republicans to offer an amendment authored by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to save taxpayers billions of dollars. Because Speaker Pelosi chose to fold the continuing resolution to extend government funding for an additional month into unrelated legislation, Republicans were not allowed to offer an amendment that would save $84 billion over an entire fiscal year by setting funding at the fiscal year 2008 level. "Republicans drafted a positive alternative solution to this continuing resolution that would save taxpayers $84 billion," said Chairman Price. "True to form, Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats in power would not allow it to be voted on by the full House of Representatives.  Are they worried some of their members might actually believe that saving $84 billion is a good idea?  Our nation is on the brink of bankruptcy, yet Democrats in charge continue to spend with reckless abandon.  It speaks volumes that those in charge won't even allow a vote on our cost-saving amendment."This is just another example of the Democrat lack of leadership pretending that Republican solutions don't exist.  Perhaps they don't believe the problems caused by running up $11.8 trillion in debt can be solved by spending less money.  Their refusal to allow a vote on an amendment that saves $84 billion proves once again that they have no plan to deal with their skyrocketing deficits. This is a reckless decision." http://www.maricopagop.com

House Democrats Consider Tax on High-Value Health Plans

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., left, talks with, from second from left, the committee's ranking Republican Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday.

WASHINGTON -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi said House Democratic leaders are considering a tax on "Cadillac" health-insurance policies that offer especially generous benefits.The tax is a central feature of health legislation pending in the Senate Finance Committee, but has previously not received much attention in the House. Legislation that cleared three House committees over the summer was financed by a surtax on the wealthy, among other steps.Proponents say the tax on generous plans could discourage wasteful health spending, while opponents including unions say it would hit middle-class people.

Picking up the tax -- or some version of it -- would allow the House to pare back the proposed surtax, as previously promised by the speaker.The speaker made clear no decisions have been made, but added: "It's under consideration." House Democratic leaders are meeting Friday to consider a range of changes to make the health overhaul bill more palatable to rank-and-file Democrats, while also bringing the 10-year cost of the broader package down to $900 billion.

"We'll just have to see how much money we need for what," Ms. Pelosi said.

 greg.hitt@wsj.com