It has been, three or four years since a person that I know told me about the big money they would make when the gas companies start drilling for Natural Gas on his and his neighbors farms. His land was going to be needed for the right-away, for a pipeline to come through. It would be another of the three farms, that would get the most money from the actual drilling.
Well since that time we have heard of the land owners of this area that were blinded by the dollar signs of leasing their land to the gas companies, and even my In-laws fell for the sales pitch of these people.
It started that they would get a few thousand dollars (a onetime payment) to let the company come in and check their two acres for the possibility of a small well. The farm was broken up according to the will, and given in packages of a couple acres to each surviving child, and the rest to be sold off to cover expenses. It just so happen that the acres given to my father-in-law were setting a top a pocket they want to take. Later that year a representative of the gas company came back and informed them that because of cost and a tax that was going to be forced on the gas industry for exploration. They could only pay them a few hundred dollars to lease the land. The deal was signed in their first meeting and it did allow for such things.
So for a few hundred dollars, land will be raped, water will be undrinkable, and all of the vegetation will die, most likely not to grow back. The timing was just right to take advantage of these farmers. Under the Bush administration the economy had a downturn, and under Obama it got worse with no end in sight. The farmer needed the money, and from talking to some people and watching local videos, they were told that it would have no long term effect on the land. (They lied!)
Below is a video, of a person that leased his land to the gas company under the false claims. From this video you can go to others that tell of the adverse effects on communities and the residents.
Oh, did I mention that the corporation behind this is Halliburton. Humm…
ABA
{Update}
The Obsever-Reporter did a Story on this today (10-4-09) form the point of another farmer in Hickory Pa.
It seems like nothing but a thing, however as I went through a few of my old blog entries, I noticed one of the videos had been removed by You-Tube. It was for what they say was violation of the TOS, which could be anything. The video was Robert Reich speaking before Congress on the Stimulus package. He told on how it would hire only minorities when it came to construction. The blog I am speaking of is, A Time to Fight, or a Time to Take it..
I went over to You-Tube and did a search on Robert Reich and Stimulus, what I came up with is one Video from Fox News.
The below video is, “White Males Need Not Apply For Stimulus Package- Racism is Alive and Well in the “White House”. It is put up by a poster who calls himself, ALREADY KNOWNAS X2. The photo he uses is that of a military person, not sure what branch.
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I am not writing this because of the massage of the video, or Mr. Riech, However I am concerned on what is becoming a game of media control. As a member of the Left you are taught that certain News outlets are one sided and that Fox is the Rights mouth piece. So lets say you want to make it look like the Right is trying to distort something that was said by your administration you take down all the stories, and videos that come from reputable sources and leave those from the most hated news outlet by the left. This being Fox News.
On that same page you will find the same story run on Lou Dobbs over at CNN. Ok, now we have a voice from the left. However, the problem here is that Lou Dobbs has been discredited by both the Left ad the Right for his reporting on the Immigration and “North American Union”.
The video below is Lou Dobbs reporting o Reich’s remarks. More below the video.
As you can see, one of the tactics that is being used is once these types of stores get out, you control who the people see reporting on them. Making sure that it is an Outlet they don’t trust or a reporter you have discredited. Then you have Talk Radio, but that is another Blog.
ABA
ps. If you would like to read an article on a classy laid who has given administrations fits for years, (Of course I am talking about Helen Thomas.) You can go here. CNSNEWS. It is a good article on how this administration is controlling the media.
Last night I saw something I had never witnessed at a baseball game at any level. My wife and I decided that we would treat her aunt and uncle to diner and a Washington Wild Things AAA baseball game at Consol Park, a great time to go Thirsty Thursday. (A dollar for soda, or a beer.) Minor League ball is a great way to spend a summer evening. What happened at around 6:50 PM took me by surprise.

Thursday night at the Wild Things Game
As we all got settled in our seats after buying souvenirs, drinks, peanuts, and Crackerjacks, I saw a group of around 19 young men and one young lady gather in front of us on the third base dugout. They had matching light blue t-shits and jeans on, nothing unusual about them. Then three Marines in their dress blues approached the group. I thought maybe, they were going to sing the National Anthem, but is was then that the Public Announcer informed us what was about to take place. They were about to be sworn in, right there in front of God, and everyone in attendance.
Now as I said above I had never seen anything like this at a sporting event of any kind. As the P.A. announced what was going to happen the crowed clapped and cheered and my wife’s uncle who is retired from the army, (has a son who is getting ready to be re-deployed somewhere in the Middle East for the fifth time) also clapped. However, his facial expression was one of worry. I personally could not bring myself to even watch, knowing that some of them would not come home whole, or might not even come home.
After the ceremony was done and the playing of the National Anthem was over, I ask my wife if she wanted to go has a cigarette with me before the first pitch? When we got to the designated smoking area, she ask why I didn’t clap during the ceremony, and why I looked away from the field. It seems her mother and aunt mentioned this to her. I ask her if she really didn’t know? I ask her, if she remembered how the military recruiters went after out daughter when she was in the 10th grade with the lies and promises that would never be. Then when they did the same thing to our niece, telling her that they weren’t even fighting over in Iraq, and when fighting was the heaviest it had been. They also told her something that not only was wrong, but later I found out they were not allowed to do, they told her to sign over custody of her daughter to her mother for the time she was in the military. I was so happy that I was awake enough to keep the military at bay when it came to my daughter. I knew the things that had to be done while she was in school to make them leave her alone, and explained things to her so that she could make a wise choice when she was of age.
I don’t really know why they would have a Swearing in Ceremony at a sporting event where there would be a lot of impressionable kids. (snark) However, I do know some of those kids looked scared shitless. It was like they realized what they had done, and it was too late.
That brings up another question I have. Why is it the laws says that a person is not capable of making a sound judgment until they are twenty one, but they can decide if they want to die at the age of eighteen?
Oh yea, the Wild Things won 16 to 8. After a shaky start, and being down as much as 7-0 they staged a come back. And as far as the New Recruits, keep alert and keep your head down.</p.
ABA
ps. Keep your children safe and don’t become so wrapped up in patriotism that you let them become Cannon Fodder.
We all remember the 700 billion bailout of the Banking/Credit industry that will be close to 1 trillion, or more. Well now that Paulson said that was not the way they would handle it, but instead they would buy interest in the banks. Are you pissed off , or are you apathetic. You probably are one of the majority of people that didn’t hear him call for a one world currency. To be truthful those weren’t the words he used, however that is what he meant.
Now if we go back to the so-called emergency and how they got the “Bailout Package” passed. The way they did it, with threats, against them and the people of the United States. According to California Congressman Brad Sherman, some members of congress were told that the country would soon be in a depression and martial law would be invoked if the Package was not passed. Now that to me means that we were threatened with a Military Coup. To threaten to use the military to force people to do what you want is——well lets face it, what the US has been doing to other countries forever. However, we are seeing things rear their ugly heads, the “Founding Fathers” warned and paced previsions to protect against. Although, when they are removed (by the Patriot Act) these threats will continue. The other major threat to the citizenry is Presidential Directive 51, which allows anything to be considered a National Emergency, and Martial Law to be invoked.
Below is the video of Brad Sherman telling of the threats made.
More below video.
There is a longer version of this video at YouTube ,it is more in depth from the speech. Congressman Sherman tells of a pamphlet that he handed out to Senators and other Congressperson before he took the floor. It can be found here: It seems that it was taken down , but I don’t know why, although I can venture a guess. I did find this more lightly written and more over apologetic Press Release
ABA
Well here we go again, US intelligence is now warning that because of the worlds economic troubles the U.S. is in danger.
The reason being given is, as fragile countries like Pakistan begin to have their economy weaken it will become harder for the US and allies to maintain a positive relationship. This would allow factions in the most dangerous part of the world to gain strength.
U.S. government officials and private analysts say the economic turmoil has heightened the short-term risk of a terrorist attack, as radical groups probe for weakening border protections and new gaps in defenses.
They also feel that the western countries having to cut back on defense will add to the problems. As China is gaining powers, the US in weakening, and may change the look of the world order.
The crisis could also accelerate the shift to a more Asia-centric globe, as rising powers such as China gain more leverage over international financial institutions and greater influence in world capitals.
Acording to CIA Director Michael Hayden, there is no hard evidence that this is happening. This would lead me to believe, these departments are pushing the fear card as they are jockeying to avoid cuts under the incoming administration. The things that worked under the Bush administration will work if you keep the public scared out of their head. Intelligence officials are pointing to, the last two administrations being tested early on in their first terms. Bill Clinton in 1993, and of course George W. Bush 9-11-2001.
EMP attack Really?
Ever since the win by Barrack Obama, the right-wing pundits have been talking about an EMP attack, and the fact that Iran has been blowing the missiles up at the height of there flight. So I started researching the Electronic Magnetic Pulse attack. Most know an electro magnetic pulse (EMP) attack could be triggered by a nuclear warhead detonated at high altitude over America. The resulting blast would create an EMP, a shockwave that could “cripple military and civilian communications, power, transportation, water, food, and other infrastructure.” Even if it does not kill on the initial explosion, it will eventually do the damage. However, there is a way in which it can be done without a detonation. There is a report called USA Wake Up that is the conclusion of a study on EMPs, The damage that will be caused, possible prevention. In the report they mention an incident that was caused by a ship setting 25 miles off of the San Diego coast.
Taken from the report (Page 3, Chapter 1)
In November 1999, San Diego County Water Authority and San Diego Gas and Electric companies experienced severe electromagnetic interference to their SCADA wireless networks. Both companies found themselves unable to actuate critical valve openings and closings under remote control of the SCADA electronic systems.
This inability necessitated sending technicians to remote locations to manually open and close water and gas valves, averting, in the words of a subsequent letter of complaint by the San Diego County Water Authority to the Federal Communications Commission, a potential “catastrophic failure” of the aqueduct system.
The potential consequences of a failure of this 825 million gallon per day flow rate system ranged from “spilling vents at thousands of gallons per minute to aqueduct rupture with ensuing disruption of service, severe flooding, and related damage to private and public property.” The source of the SCADA failure was later determined to be radar operated on a ship 25 miles off the coast of San Diego.
One would have to wonder, what would be the cause for the sudden concern by the talking heads. Well one reason has to do with the Missile Defense System that the US wants to put on Poland’s border. But is that all? I would have to say no. There is always the need to keep the citizenry in fear, and by letting the thought of a possible EMP attack looming over their heads it becomes the perfect scenario. On one hand, you have Obama saying that he will take the diplomatic approach, and his followers approve of this. Then on the other hand, you have the right-wing war supporters who do not believe in being diplomatic, know if you can keep the country fearful and divided, their job becomes easier.
Threat Warnings?
Maybe it is shear coincidence that Biden, Powell, and now Hal Turner, are saying that there will be a crises in the very near future. Although Joe b
Biden said with in 6 months, and Colin Powell says it will be in January 2010. Turner is more mystical about it and a bit spooky. Below is a small excerpt from Hal Turner’s web-site. For the whole story click here
My Fellow Americans: Something incredible and historic is about to take place here in our country. When it does, the nation will reel in shock and awe at the coordination and execution of such a vast, sudden, dramatic and irreversible series of events.
Every once in awhile, people have to do things they know are bad in order to achieve things they know are good. America as a nation is at such a cross-roads. We are left with two choices: either accept the debauchery, manipulation and usurpation that have taken place, or correct those problems with deliberate and direct action.
Further down in the article he speaks of something that has not been done since 1941. The government is sending “General Mobilization” letters to retired military personnel of all ranks no matter their age.
UPDATE: 9:11 AM 20 November 2008 — The government knows “something big” is coming; they just don’t know what.
They are mailing “general mobilization” letters to EVERY former member of EVERY branch of the U.S. military, no matter their age or physical capability, telling them to prepare for recall into the armed forces for a “general mobilization.” The last time the USA made a general mobilization was in December, 1941.
That’s how big this “thing” is going to be. Prepare yourselves and DO NOT be afraid.
What are these three men talking about? Is it some great religious event, a government crisis, a revolution on the rise, an attack on the country, or World War Three? Is it a possibility that they are telling of the coming of the North American Union. What ever it is they need to be more specific, and prove this is not just another case of the, “Little Boy Who Cried Wolf”.
ABA
Ps. Below is a video that I found on Youtube, that explains how the EMP works.
The thought of someone trying to shut me up with threats strengthens my voice. When a man is pushed to be silenced for speaking the truth, it is time for those who truly walk the walk to stand up, and fall in line behind him. No longer should we stand muted to the wrongs that are decimating our rights, but stand and make those who would do such things pay.
We are about to see the change of faces not ideas. If anything they will make worse the conditions for the middle class and working poor. They take our tax dollars and feed them to the corporations and the rich, so that they will thrive, forcing the rest to beg for their own money. They have convinced others that their wealth belongs more to the rich, than themselves.
Well I for one will not lie as I am beaten, told to lay quietly as I am robbed by the ones I refused to put in power. I will scream at the top of my lungs until I am silenced. It is for the youth, and those who cannot speak I do this. Not those who would follow blindly, as not to anger those who feed them. I fight for mine and ours, that they might see a brighter day
If mine is not a just fight, then I have become that which I hate. No better that the lowest form. And if I am unjust, I will surely be lost. However if I am right, those who I oppose will try to quiet myself and those who share my passion, and then it will not be long until they will lose.
ABA
I have known that this was going to happen for awhile now, but the Washington Post is reporting, that by 2011 the military will have 20,000 troops in cities and they are saying it is to help with the people during a nuclear disaster. Now we here on the so-call fringe new this going to happen, since George Bush did away with “Posse Comitatus” during hurricane Katrina. Yea you remember, Bush stood in the well lit Court Yard, while the rest of New Orleans was in dark and the people starved, and waiting on help.
This group that now controls the country, has been trying to remove the Posse Comitaus Act of 1878 for a long time now. They have been saying that it does not apply in this times, “when these are the exact times it does apply to”!
There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil liberties groups and libertarians who express concern that the new homeland emphasis threatens to strain the military and possibly undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old federal law restricting the military’s role in domestic law enforcement.
But the Bush administration and some in Congress have pushed for a heightened homeland military role since the middle of this decade, saying the greatest domestic threat is terrorists exploiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
The Bush administration managed to remove an Act that did not allow one states National Guard, to go into another state to take control of the population. That Act was done away with under Bush.
I don’t hear any outrage from the MSM about this move. They are lulling you into a comatose state once again. They are getting ready to put the country under a deep police state, where the police have tanks, jets, and technological weapons that will devastate the population into submission. So we can stand now or cower in the corner. However, if you cower be prepared for you children to suffer.
ABA
I usually would not write about Wal-Mart because I would be a hypocrite, seeing as my family shops at Wal-Mart. However, seeing as a lot of what is happening could be prevented, by compassion for their workers. The Black Friday incident could have been made safer by spending a little more of the money they save by screwing over their employees on pay and health benefits. By adding more security it could have been made more orderly.
Some are saying the way the ads were presented in away that caused people to riot, however that cannot be blamed on Wal-Mart, people are naturally assholes. When you are running over top of someone to get a toy you should stop and help that person. If that would have been a child, child those who stampeded would be hunted down like dogs. I have not been following the case, but I hope they have it on security cameras.
As I said before, my family does shop at Wal-Mart and what can you do in this economy. I mean there are not many stores that have the buying power of Wal-Mart, and can keep price controlled enough to run smaller businesses out of business. As I use to tell people, buy shopping at Wal-Mart you are killing the community and putting yourself. Well they would just laugh and continue on their way. Now those people are either out of a job, or working at a chain store.
Now that chain stores employ a large part of the community, lay pay below average wages and employ mostly part-time help to get around paying benefits. This is why most Wal-Mart employees are eligible for food stamps, and welfare health benefits.
Employees are being forced to work over time for free, they have been locked in the store overnight. I belong to “Wal-Mart Watch” a group that keeps an eye on Wal-Mart. Below is a video of employees telling their experiences.
It is sad that people have to work under these conditions. Yes, I have heard what some of you are thinking, “just quit and get another job.” That would have been ok in anther time and a better economy. However now people are forced to get and take jobs where they can. Although I don’t think it’s going to happen, I hope all the Obama-tons are right and this will get better.
ABA
For a while now, we have been hearing about a case in which a lawyer from Pennsylvania took it upon himself to challenge wether or not Barrack Obama’s birth certificate is real or not, and if he is a Naturalized Citizen.
Philip Berg, a Democrat and former Assistant Attorney General for Pennsylvania, brought suit alleging that under the Natural Born Citizen Clause of the U.S. Constitution, Obama is ineligible to be President.
The judge overseeing the case made a ruling that was a bit disturbing in that it says, (Paraphrased) A citizen does not have the right to sue to enforce the Constitution, without the backing of Congress. Scary right? Well that’s not the all of it.
Judge Surrick states that citizens may not sue to enforce the Constitution without statutory authorization from Congress.
That concept would result in tyranny.
The United States Supreme Court by not hearing the case, upheld that ruling. No matter what your reasoning is, you knew that the ruling would go for Obama. However, that is not the concern. The concern is, they let it stand that a ordinary citizen (like You and I,) cannot defend the Constitution when we see it being trampled on.
I have the feeling, a door has been opened that will be hard to shut, and will allow future constitutional cases to go with out being heard. This will make it harder for the citizenry to take back what the last eight years have taken from them.
ABA
U.S. and Canadian Economic Troubles Move us ever closer to the NAU
It seems that economic boom was short lived for Canada, the Canadian banks have had to cut their interest rates to 2.2% on home loans. Further more, due to the sharp decline in the price of oil, coupled with the global economic down fall, the Canadian people are feeling that it wont be long until, (you fill in the blank.)
If things were not bad enough for our neighbors to the north, their government is in a political turmoil. It seems that Prime Minister Steven Harper, (one of George Bush’s NAU buddies) has gotten Parliament suspended until after the New Year. This is a move that has and may even do more to weaken the confidence of the Toronto Stock Market.
But it’s merely delayed any direct impact the political fighting might have on equity markets, and thrown one more complication into the mix faced by market players.
Indeed, most analysts agree if there is any impact on Toronto stocks to be felt from the Ottawa stalemate it is the added uncertainty it brings to a market already battered by tumbling commodity prices and gloomy economic data.
Whether or not most Canadians like to admit it, they are seeing their beautiful country decaying from the inside out thanks to the U.S. intervention.
This past Monday’s big retreat was not all due to constitutional battling however, as sliding commodity prices, gloomy U.S. economic news and an urge to lock in profits after six days of gains all contributed to the big sell off.
That led some analysts to surmise it would be difficult, if not impossible, to isolate the direct influence the Ottawa fighting has had, or will have, on the market.
WHY?
This is all taking place for a reason, and that would be the preparations for the North American Union. In the many different documents on the Building of the North American Community, it is often mentioned that the economy will be brought DOWN to a level playing field. With weakened economies, the dissolving of sovereignty will become less difficult.
For those who think that the NAU is a conspiracy theory, think back to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, during a press conference on the bank and credit bailout said quickly, (paraphrased) The US cannot remain sovereign, and compete globally. So I have to ask, “What the hell do you think that means?” Well you think about those things and I will get back with you.
ABA
While I was watching “60 Minutes”, when the piece on Barney Frank came on, and they got into the way he handled the writing of the Financial Bailout with Secretary Paulson. (You know the bill that was written, which gave Paulson complete control over the dispersing of the money.) While they were talking about the way Frank is nicknamed, Saber Tooth Tiger and how he attacks, for what he believes in. Now with that in mind I can move on.
While that piece was on, I remembered how California Rep. Brad Sherman said that members of congress were threatened that if the Bailout Bill didn’t pass the second time a round there would be martial law. However, he did not tell who made these threats. I really doubt that he will, if he wants to remain in good health, or hold on to his position. I wrote on the threat in Did the Bankers Threaten …. Now what I was thinking, and remember I have no evidence to back this assertion., however it seems to points to one of two people, or maybe both, Barney Frank and/or Secretary Paulson.
Below are snipits from Brad Sherman’s press release.
Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, October 2nd, I stated on the floor of the House of Representatives that, “The only way they can pass this bill is by creating and sustaining a panic atmosphere. That atmosphere is not justified. Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday, that the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousand points the first day and a couple of thousand the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no. That’s what I call fear mongering, unjustified, proven wrong.”
Now the part of the press release below shows a total turn around from the way he presented it at the debate on the floor. I feel that he was threatened and had to back down. There again, who did it?
Speaking during the second House debate on the bailout bill, I was describing what I regarded as the increasingly unbelievable things that had been said while the House considered the bailout package – extreme things put forward as reasons why Congress had to pass that bill right away.
I urged my colleagues not to take the extreme statements seriously and urged them to defeat the bill. It should be clear from the context of my speech that I did not believe that martial law would be declared under any circumstances and I did not think that such absurd and outlandish comments should cause members to vote for the bill.
Please watch this video again and decide for yourself if he was putting forward that threats were being used to try and get this bill passed.
There is more below the video.
Now I know some of you probably think this doesn’t matter, but if I am right it now becomes proof we are not represented, but can be threatened with out any recourse. I think a friend of mine put best when she said, “They don’t have to sell a product anymore, we are being forced to pay for it. They have cutout the middle man.”
ABA
As we head to the Christmas holiday, the question still looms. Will it be more cost effective to Bailout the “Big 3” or let them go under? It is a good guess that if they go under they will crush what is left of this floundering economy. However, if they get bailed out they will be back for more in the all too near future
The latest news is that Ford and GM will take the low interest loans from the Government. However, if we let the Big 3 go down will it cost the country more than if we bail them out. I really don’t have the answer to that. What we have to look at is the cost of a bankruptcy. If they file for bankruptcy, they are relieved of there financial responsibilities, which means, we the tax payers will pick up the cost of Warrantees of cars already sold at that time. Also, we the tax payer will pick up the cost of pension packages of those already in retirement. Then we will have to deal those hundreds of thousands that lose their jobs.
Now, let’s say that they take the bankruptcy route and the tax payers pick up these cost. As I stated above we will be left with, pensions, warrantees, and other miscellaneous costs that will also go into the billions, and more likely trillions. On the other hand if they get bailed out, we the tax payer will end up paying much more on the hope that something that has been failing for over a decade will regain strength. Under this plan the companies have said that they will be laying off workers also. The republicans that went against the proposed bailout plan, have said it does not go deep enough. By that they meant among other thinks was, not enough works would be let go. As I see it, either way this goes, does not look economically feasible for the tax payer.
Personally
We are headed to a point in this nations soon to be history, when we have to bite the, “Preverbal Bullet”, letting it fail and rebuild from scratch. We are going to have to do away with the “Free-market System” as it is being called, (however, is resembling a Fascist State more everyday.) and rebuild as a Capital-Social economy. An economy in which the people have more of a say and the local governments have control over their resources, and utilities. What we are witnessing at this point in time is socialism for the corporations, that is not benefiting the people.
In the plan laid on the table today by the Bush administration, the “Big 3” will receive low interest loans that will be paid back only if the Company/Companies show profit. (Now there is a deal we all would like to have.) It will end up being as good, if not better than what the financial institutes received. This will be a lose/lose deal for the American People.
I realize, that most of us don’t understand the whole of finance, but you don’t have to be a Rocket Scientist to know this sucks, and is not in our best interest.
ABA
The US War College is preparing for Civil Unrest in the United States over the drastic down turn in the economy. Treasury Sec. Paulson has told of the use of Martial Law, as I reported before.
Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma and Rep. Brad Sherman of California disclosed that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson discussed a worst-case scenario as he pushed the Wall Street bailout in September, and said that scenario might even require a declaration of martial law.
The report from the War College’s Strategic Studies Institute warns that the U.S. military must prepare for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States” that could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.”
The DOD is sure that if the economy remains on its downfall there will be violence amongst the middle and lower class, cause for a military rule.
Entitled “Known Unknowns: Unconventional ‘Strategic Shocks’ in Defense Strategy Development,” the report was produced by Nathan Freier, a recently retired Army lieutenant colonel who is a professor at the college — the Army’s main training institute for prospective senior officers.
writes: “To the extent events like this involve organized violence against local, state, and national authorities and exceed the capacity of the former two to restore public order and protect vulnerable populations, DoD [Department of Defense] would be required to fill the gap.”
The Phoenix Journal reported that according to International Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said last week that there would be global rioting in the international markets. If the lower-income households aren’t made to follow credit limits.
The last paragraph of the article reminds us of what is a possibility of our future, and the plans that were drawn up as far back as 2003.
And Gen. Tommy Franks, who led the U.S. military operations to liberate Iraq, said in a 2003 interview that if the U.S. is attacked with a weapon of mass destruction, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
ABA
Here It is January 1st 2009, and the headlines read just the same as they did, December 31st 2008. “Gaza bombing intense”, Gas prices end on a Bang in 2008”,“FBI says Pakistanis linked to Mumbai bombing,” but this proves to be the most important of all, “Zunes Crash en Masses.” (Well it took the front page of Yahoo.) Yes, with all the killing and starvation going on in the world, the Microsoft “Zune” crashed last night at midnight. So, “God help us”!
Things remain the same is one thing I have learned over the years they only change places and names. Of course, that does not apply to technology and the misuse of it by governments.
When I was a Senior in high school (1977), I remember my Civics teacher asking us, “How long until the human race will cease to exist?” Well of course some answered in away that they were thought in their churches, and some answered with what we thought at the time was a cool philosophical answer. (Probably because we were stoned. Civics was right after lunch.) However, my answer was something like this. “I feel that at the rate man is discovering and creating new technology, and the things that he is able to do, or will not have to do because of that technology, will kill him off with in 30 years.”
Well as you know, I was wrong. However, the technology that has been created, has made mankind a slave to that very technology. And because of It, we have lost jobs, and the youth does not have the capacity to do small task. We now base our lives around such technology as our computers, which pulled people away from the main technology of control, the Television. It was cool at first, most “Average Joes” that owned a computer used them for games, emailing, and Instant Messaging friends. However now they are being used for the spreading of information as fast as it happens. More times than not, it is information that you were not suppose to hear about.
More and more, people are moving away from the Television for a source of news, and (controlled) entertainment. When the average night out at the Movies for you and the family, cost as much as a Professional Sporting event, and the Professional Event costing as much as Rent, or your Mortgage. You now see how the computer has become a reasonably priced form of entertainment. However, it does not stop there. You can now take that technology everywhere you go, in the form of Cell phones, and Pocket Computers. (If this was a movie, the background music would sound sinister about now.)
In past blogs I have told of RFID Chips, and other ways you can be tracked and monitored. I have told of laws “YOUR” Legislators have written and passed to allow you to be monitored. Well, you are sitting in front of one of the biggest, and easiest ways to monitor the population, (2nd to the phone). If you are at work reading this, well odds are your company is well aware that you are, and they know what your emails are about. Are you sitting at McDonalds, Star Bucks or staying at a Ho-Jo‘s? Well, that is a Public Access Wi-Fi you are using. Open to anyone.
Now, back to the television. It seems almost conspiratorial, we are being forced into using digital broadcast. It has only been the last 2 or 3 years that they started preparing the people on the North American Continent for the transformation to digital. When on the other hand other countries have been broadcasting in digital for over a decade. I have also pointed out in Could DTV Be… that it has been mandated that by 2013, 180 countries must use digital broadcasting, and we are just finding out about it. The media has downplayed this along with many other things in the past, present, and will continue to do so into the future. The use of DTV allows for many thing to happen from the providers end. The least of which is adjusting and designing advertisements for that viewer, to the worst, vision through the Television Set. Many people have ask how can this be done trough the airwaves? One of the things they are not telling us out right is if you are not with in 30 miles of the broadcast, you cant pick it up. Just as with analog builds, hills and high objects come into play. So most of the people will be forced into purchasing, cable, or a satellite server. Keeping this in mind, more people can be monitored.
So as the New Year begins, this will be something for you to think about as you rush out to get that High Def TV, and sign-up for Verizon FIOS for that perfect picture. I am sure that the governments will thank-you for their perfect view of you.
Well here is wishing you and yours a prosperous and healthy New Year.
Please watch the below video, it explains the way that YOUR TV will be USED AGAINST YOU. I found this after writing this and it fit so well.
ABA
Here is the address, YouTube
I was reading down through the My Yahoo page and a story caught my eye, and really pissed me off. It tells how because things are tuff, the nation has cut back on spending, and the Congress decides to hurt them even more.
A federal commission created by Congress to find a way to make up the growing revenue shortfall in the program that funds highway repairs and construction is talking about increasing federal gas and diesel taxes.
A roughly 50 percent increase in gasoline and diesel fuel taxes is being urged by the commission until the government devises another way for motorists to pay for using public roads.
I my opinion, this shows that the Reps. in D.C. are whores for the corporations. They managed to take our tax money and hand it over to the Big 3 Auto Makers, and the Financial Community, and against our wishes. However, to help out the people who put their butts in those seats that they enjoy, they take more of our money. And you can bet that not even 25% of the taxes pulled in will go for the infrastructure.
There is a push for the tax, those in favor are saying that it will force the people to change there travel habits. This has been proven with the last oil price surge. There were people having to quit jobs because it was not feasible to travel with the price of gas. Also schools were cutting the number of hours, even days a week the children would be in school. Also after school activities, and sporting events were canceled. This was also due to the price of fuel.
What a tax on gas will do is, force a change in social habits and travel to and from work. This will be accomplished by, driving up the price on food and necessities. It will eventually drive the mom and pop shops that managed to survive the last oil hike, out of business. Essentially it will be starving people to invoke a change.
Now, though, with gas at a buck and a half, a loose group of economists, academics, environmentalists and even some businesspeople is telling Congress and the incoming Obama administration that the 18.4 cents a gallon you pay in federal gasoline taxes isn’t nearly enough.
“Has there ever been a better time to raise the gas tax?” asked economics professor Thomas Cooley on Forbes’ Web site last week, proposing an increase of up to $1 a gallon.
Paul Foster, chairman of the Western Refining oil company: “The tax on gasoline needs to be at least $2 a gallon.”“We need a significant increase in the cost of gasoline to change our habits,” writes conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer, proposing a $1 gas tax hike after the enactment of offsetting tax cuts for workers.
The money for fixing the problem is out there with out trying to tax their way out of it. The people of the United States are going to be facing a lot of economic turmoil in the next decade, and we don’t need what is our life blood harder to grasp. Please bombard your Congressperson and Senators, telling them, “As a nation we can not afford this preposterous idea of a tax, especially at this point in time.”
ABA
There was a bill to delay the conversion from analog to all digital broadcasting, from February 17 2009, (in just 4 weeks) June of 2009. However, today the House voted to keep the February 17th switchover date as planed.
The House voted 258-168 in favor of a four-month delay, but the measure fell 26 votes short of the necessary two-thirds margin for passage. The Senate voted Monday to delay the transition to June 12, fearing that an estimated 6.5 million TV households would be unprepared for the shift from analog TV.
The Obama administration, was afraid that to many people would not be ready in time for the switch. According to a Neilson research poll, 6 million people are not ready for the change. However, it will be higher than their guess. Contrary to what we are being told, rabbit ears will not be able to receive the transmission if you live further than 30 miles from the point of the transmission, and have obstacles in the road, such as high buildings and hills. This will require the purchase of an outdoor antenna, and possibly a an antenna rotor. This is on top of the cost of the converter box, or the new Television you bought.
A federal converter box coupon program created to provide $40 credits toward the purchase of a $40 to $80 converter box ran out of its $1.34 billion in funds on Jan. 5. The program, which now has 2.5 million requested coupons on its wait list, won’t issue coupons until previously distributed vouchers expire. So far, 20.8 million coupons have been redeemed out of 49.8 million requested. Democrats have set aside $650 million in the pending stimulus package to fund the coupon program.
(I added the Bold lettering.)
Is It Extortion?
The only other choices you are stuck with are cable, or Satellite. I have had Direct TV for four years now, and was considering going to over the air digital, but because I live out of range of any broadcast point, if I want to have TV I have to use cable, or satellite. I am guessing that there are more in the same situation. So, we are back to that point of, Being forced to buy something whether we want it or not. However, we could just chose not to have it. There is always the computer.
Or is There
There is talk of the internet providers packaging the internet like they do your satellite, or cable programming. And anything you want that is not in you package, you will have to pay extra for. For example, lets say you package has Google, Youtube, and Pogo, but you want to come over and read my blog, well it will cost you extra. Now that is providing bloggers like myself are still around, because there is also the mention of having to pass the standards of the provider, to get the permit to use the bandwidth. So what it all is about is Government control.
Shut Down 2012
There will be a “Shut Down” of the Free Internet it is scheduled for 2012, to make the switch to the “Package Internet.” Below in the Blockquote is a confirmation.
Dylan Pattyn, who is currently writing an article for Time Magazine on the issue, has official confirmation from sources within Bell Canada and is interviewing a marketing representative from TELUS who confirms the story and states that TELUS has already started blocking all websites that aren’t in the subscription package for mobile Internet access. They could not confirm whether it would happen in 2012 because both stated it may actually happen sooner (as early as 2010). Interviews with these sources, more confirmation from other sources and more in-depth information on the issue is set to be published in Time Magazine soon.
So as you can see it is not looking good for the exchange of ideas, and information. They plan on taking the one tool that allows us to express ourselves , and hunt for the truth in this propaganda filled world, and reduce it to the propaganda tool they have made TV and radio.
Want to stay informed Save the Internet
Please Watch the Video Below and see How it will effect you.
ABA
The Senate passed the Bill that will delay the Change over to Digital Broadcasting. This bill is to give Americans a chance to be ready for the conversion. By law the change must be made on February 17th of this year. However, the Delay Bill will extend the time for the change over until June 12th 2009, allowing the 6 million people who are not ready, to get ready.
The House voted on the Bill Monday, however the republicans managed to keep the vote from getting the 2/3 need to pass. One has to wonder, is the fact that 6 million dollars to help people make the switch, is in the Stimulus Package. (Most will be in the printing of more coupons , and advertising.)
The house will now send it back to the Congress, in hope that they will quickly pass the bill.
A federal program to subsidize coupons to help consumers pay for converter boxes ran out of money this month. Many Democrats on Capitol Hill say too many viewers could lose broadcasts if the transition goes on as scheduled, and the Obama administration urged Congress to delay it. Republicans argue a delay would confuse viewers and cost TV stations millions of dollars.
In a statement, a White House spokeswoman urged the House to move quickly to pass the bill, and that the administration “will work with Congress to improve the information and assistance available to Americans as the nation moves to digital television.”
This is starting to make me wonder (and I am not for the mandatory switchover) but why are the republicans stopping this bill. Are they more in step with the N.W.O. than democrats. (As the mandate for 180 countries to be totally digital by 2013 draws closer.) So let’s see what turns up in the next couple of days. I will keep you up dated.
ABA
In the past couple of years the rate of foreclosures has been growing because of the Planed Failure of the economy. However, there is a possible way to stave of a foreclosure, and it is legal.
Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur, is telling people to Become Squatters in their homes.
Yes, this Ohio Democrat is actually encouraging her financially distressed constituents whose homes have been foreclosed upon, to simply stay put.
There is a case in Ohio, one of the hardest hit areas of the country by foreclosures, This is happening in Lucas Ohio where there were 4,000 foreclosures in 2008 according to “CNN”. Because her payments are behind, lost her job, and her husband is sick, her house is up for foreclosure. She is going to take Rep. Kaptur’s advice and stay put. But, really what else can the families in this situation do? There are a lot of people that are just walking away and giving their houses over to the Banks and Mortgage Companies, when they should be staying and fighting.
Most people don’t know because they cant afford legal representation, to take it to court, where they have the right to make the bank or lending institutions show the court, the ORIGINAL documents for the mortgage.
Why is this Important?
One reason is that you are making the institution foreclosing to prove they have ownership. Rep. Kaptur is one of the biggest advocate in fighting foreclosures using the slogan is, “Present the Note”.
By telling a bank to “produce the note,” a homeowner can delay foreclosure by forcing the lender to prove the suing institution is actually the same which owns the debt.
The reasoning this is a good defense, a lot of the mortgages were sold off as fast as the were closed. This continued, and some ended up outside the country, sold to countries like China, Japan, and in Europe.
“During the lending boom, most mortgages were flipped and sold to another lender or servicer or sliced up and sold to investors as securitized packages on Wall Street,” explains the Consumer Warning Network.
“In the rush to turn these over as fast as possible to make the most money, many of the new lenders did not get the proper paperwork to show they own the note and mortgage. This is the key to the produce the note strategy.”
So if you know of anyone in this situation, tell them to stay in their home and get legal council. Because it is very IMPORTANT they notify the bank to, “PRODUCE the NOTE” before going to court.
In the video below is the CNN story with Rep. Kaptur.
ABA
I guess it was inevitable, Big Brother is coming to Pittsburgh. Yesterday morning I caught the latest Editorial by WTAE Channel 4 President and General Manager Rick Henry on security -Vs- privacy. At first I was just hearing, however when I herd cameras and London, I had to sit down and listen.
You can watch Mr. Henry’s editorial here in full.
Mr.Henry pointed out that 71% of the Americans polled on the subject of security over privacy, took security. So the past administration did its job in scaring the citizenry into submission. He also made sure that it was known he is for the new security cameras. He said that we here at Channel 4 are for security, but I doubt that he speaks for everyone at the station. Mr. Henry feels that we should give up our rights for security, but it makes perfect sense coming from the media. WPXI Channel 11 an NBC affiliate, plays it off as More Watchful Eyes in the city. KDKA is the only station that gave the story only with the facts they were given. KDKA is a CBS affiliate.
It seems the media is planting the seeds to excepting the loss of our privacy. What they are not telling you is that the a lot of people in London are against the use of security cameras. There are groups that are painting the lenses of the cameras, others have taken to destroying them altogether.
The cameras to be instaled in Pittsburgh are not like most security cameras, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
These won’t be your typical store security cameras, but rather high-tech devices that look like white tool boxes laying glass eggs. They will send the footage wirelessly to powerful computers that will analyze and store it.
“You can zoom three blocks away and read a business card or a license plate,” said Darrin Lipscomb, president of Avrio Group, a Maryland firm that won a competition to be the city’s surveillance camera vendor. “We’re going to have very sophisticated viewing stations that will allow any number of people to view these cameras in any number of ways.”
What is the need for cameras of this technology? Every time they want to infringe on your rights the throw the “T” word around. The Police chief falls right in line.
There’s little hard data on cameras’ effects on crime. But city officials believe they have a plan to protect against terrorism, link existing Downtown cameras, and deter crime in troubled neighborhoods.
I added the bold lettering.
The plan is to install 112 cameras throughout the city on bridges and in areas considered “Hot Spots”. The most disturbing part is, they are going to hook existing private cameras to the network. Half of the funding for the security cameras and the installation will come from Homeland Security money. (Notice: the money was intended for port safety.)
The final number of cameras depends on when the money runs out. The initial $4.1 million investment includes $2.59 million from the Department of Homeland Security, intended to guard ports against terrorism, $862,000 in local money and $625,000 in state funds. Mr. Ravenstahl said he’ll look for more money to expand the system.
One of the things I see left out, is whether or not the system will be connected to the centralized data base at the DHS. I’ll bet it is.
While watching the woodworking shows on Channel 13 WQED, during one of the breaks a spot was run where a manager was telling how they were not taking a budget cut, they were being eliminated from the budget. She ask that the viewers should contact their Representatives and tell them not to eliminate PBS from the budget. Like that will do any good, we saw that they don’t represent the people who they represent.
WQED recently sent out a plea to public-broadcasting supporters, asking them to petition Gov. Ed Rendell and lawmakers to maintain annual grants at $8 million for the state’s eight public stations, including $1.1 million for WQED. Rendell cut most of the spending for public broadcasting from his budget proposal.
The new 29-billion dollar budget being proposed in the Pa legislature, will elimante funding to all Pennsylvania’s Public Broadcast Stations. The democrats prove once again that they are just following the path laid before them. In 2006 George W Bush cut the PBS federal budget by 80%, however he did not eliminate it. Under the budget that will come before Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell as it is now written, will totally cut the funding for Public Broadcasting in the state. If this budget is passed, it will not totally do away with PBS it will force more layoffs and less programming. While they promised to grow the economy and job market, the lack of funding in the right places is shrinking both.
So if the people don’t wake-up and see that we are being led down the same path we thought that we had just gotten off of, Bert and Ernie could wined up in a tent city in some park.
Well, we should go a head and write, call, and e-mail our Reps letting them know we are against this budget, maybe it will help. However there is something brewing in the coven of the government.
ABA
Friday my wife I went with the In-laws to Kennywood Park, for my niece’s 5th birthday. I had not been to the park since the late 80s, it was way before the Allegheny County smoking ban, and limited smoking restrictions.
There are 12 areas that you can smoke in the (Open-Air Park). (They list 13, but the 13th is outside of the park) he parking lots are owned by Kennywood, so by their rules you can’t smoke there or in your car. However, they don’t enforce that strict. Anyway, I am ok with that (I guess).
The bitch I have is, I pay the same outrageous price as most and less than others, and I cannot smoke in the open air. I mean commonsense tells you that you should not smoke on the rides, or where people eat, or gather in great numbers. However, I understand you have a few that don’t have commonsense. They send you to small out of the way places that are out in the direct sun, and Friday was a warm day. I am a toasty critter.
After we ate lunch in the cafeteria, where I enjoyed a hot roast beef sandwich, and fries with gravy,(I forget what it cost, but the portion far out weighed the cost.) I went to one of the DSAs, and sat down to enjoy my nasty habit. It was about that time a high school girl about 17 sat down, with her boyfriend. About five minutes later she started throwing snide little remarks aimed at my wife and I, and our smoking. Her boyfriend just chuckled, as she was doing this. I guess it was about the third thing she said and I spoke up. I pointed out that this was in fact One of the Designated Smoking Areas, and she should move along. Well, she snapped something back about, killing the trees, contributing to global warming, and how, and I quote, “How my generation Fucked Up the world.” I just told her she was an idiot, and her boyfriend chuckled, they got up and left. Also as I sat at the DSA at the BMX stunt show, a mother and her young child stood in front of me and did the fake cough as if she couldn‘t breath because of our smoke. This time an old gentleman ask to take her child out of our area. I chuckled.
After setting there for awhile, I told my wife I found the whole confrontation funny, but in a sad way. The younger generations no longer know freedoms that we did as early as 20 years ago. (I use smoking as an example only because many find it easy to understand.) There was a time when if you wanted to smoke you just ask the people around you if they minded, if they didn’t you would light-up. If they did mind you stepped away, or I would go outside. Smoking is just one example of a freedom that the government has taken away or regulated to near extinction. As some set back and say that’s a good thing, remember that things that are being regulated, or priced to their very demise, will cause the tax flow to be cut drastically or end.
The so-called Sin-Taxes bring in a lot of revenue for state, local, and federal government. Where will that money come from when they regulate it out existence? Other taxes that those who were happy to see them go pay will be doubled and even tripled to make up the loss. I have heard the excuse, raising the price on things like cigarettes will stop the youth from smoking. Well I am here to tell you, when I went to the DSA, it was like I was back over the hill in high school sneaking that lunch time smoke again. I have one very important question. “Where did the money come from for their cigarettes?”
ABA
Ps. I also rub snuff on occasion, so what I will do from now on is put a rub in and just spit allover the place, and lets just see how they like that. No one says anything about people spitting hockers allover the sidewalks. That has to be very unhealthy, even more-so now with the “Swine flu” outbreak. Just something to think about.
ABA
Pss. I almost forgot, “Adventure Land” was filmed at Kennywood. I did not see the Movie, but I will. I will look for those DSA’s to see if it is time authenic.

The NewScouts
There was a time when you heard the term Boy Scout and thought of kids dressed in a tan uniform helping a little old lady cross the street, or out in the woods on a camping excursion. The saying he’s a Boy Scout meant he was a good person, or maybe a little naive. It seems that those days are gone, and the scouts are trying to form a new image, but not for the better.
It seems the new Scout image is that of a Military Youth Hit Squad. According to a New York Times article, Scouting is a totally different mindset from when I was a Scout.
The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that began 60 years ago, is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border violence — an intense ratcheting up of one of the group’s longtime missions to prepare youths for more traditional jobs as police officers and firefighters.
It is amazing, parents could lose their children if they tried to do this on their own, or even worse yet, raise them with home schooling and a healthy lifestyle. However, you put them in a group run by some waked-out police or military and it becomes ok.
“This is about being a true-blooded American guy and girl,” said A. J. Lowenthal, a sheriff’s deputy here in Imperial County, whose life clock, he says, is set around the Explorers events he helps run. “It fits right in with the honor and bravery of the Boy Scouts.”
I added the Bold Lettering
The simulation being run in this story is teaching the Scouts how to raid and apprehend the ever dangerous “POT SMOKER”.
“Put him on his face and put a knee in his back,” a Border Patrol agent explained. “I guarantee that he’ll shut up.”
The children that were at this session had different reasons for being involved, but core was pretty much the same empowerment.
One participant, Felix Arce, 16, said he liked “the discipline of the program,” which was something he said his life was lacking. “I want to be a lawyer, and this teaches you about how crimes are committed,” he said.
Cathy Noriega, also 16, said she was attracted by the guns. The group uses compressed-air guns — known as airsoft guns, which fire tiny plastic pellets — in the training exercises, and sometimes they shoot real guns on a closed range.
“I like shooting them,” Cathy said. “I like the sound they make. It gets me excited.”
Acorrding to the article, there have been no complaints, or objections to the content of these exercises. With that said, there have been many complaints and law suits brought against the officers who run the training.
The Explorers have faced problems over the years. There have been numerous cases over the last three decades in which police officers supervising Explorers have been charged, in civil and criminal cases, with sexually abusing them.
The thing that astonishes me when I come across these types of articles is that, people always ask way the youth do things that they do? “Why are they violent, why do they bully, why are they obsessed with death and killing?” All I can say is, “I don’t know”?
ABA