They still want to give the Feds even more responsibility over our children’s future!

I have a better plan, burn all the paper and computers holding derivatives.  Reassess hard asset value and start this economy over on sound footing.

Derivatives are financial instruments whose values are based on something else, such as a mortgage-backed security or a commodity like oil.  (So they have zero actual value)

Over-the-counter derivatives “grew explosively” in the past decade, with the face value of outstanding transactions rising sixfold to almost $700 trillion in 2008, Geithner added.

Posted by: DrD | July 9, 2009

Tivoli Cinemas in Westport

Greetings,

One of the most earnest and eye-opening films of the year opens this Friday, July 10 at the Tivoli Theater.

In FOOD, INC., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield Farm’s Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms’ Joel Salatin, this intelligently made and passionate film reveals surprising — and often shocking truths — about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

The following briefing is long but VERY important.  For humanities sake PLEASE read it and make your own conclusions.  If you understand freedom is not free but must be protected by each generation for the next.  Call your congressman, get involved, prepare for the coming assault…

cut to the chase.... a prediction from Health Freedom USA:

        6.
Every recent major event like 9/11, the Madrid bombings or the London
bombings has been accompanied by a materially identical "training
exercise" simulating the actual event involving, confusing and
distracting the legitimate responders. (Fact, 2001-ongoing)
        7.  A major set of FEMA training exercises is scheduled for Monday, 27 July,
2009. (Fact, 2009)

Educate BEFORE you vaccinate!

        Emergency Health Freedom Action eBlast!

        Natural Solutions Foundation
        www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

        www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
        July 7, 2009
        The General Looks at the Data:

        ALERT!!!  ACTION NEEDED!!!  

        I am writing to you in my official capacity as the President of the Natural
Solutions Foundation.  However, the basis of the information that I am about
to share with you comes from decades of experience engaged in real-world,
real-time intelligence collection and analysis.  In this environment, the
work involves piecing together divergent "bits" of information from
divergent sources into a coherent picture of past events/situations from
which you can reliably predict future events/situations.

        Having the "picture" (from connecting the "Dots" or the  "Bits" of
information) provides the base from which counter actions, plans and
solutions develop.

        That is the simplistic process.  Now let me show you some of the "Dots" as
they exist today. You do the connecting.   You paint the picture that comes
to your mind. I think after you do, you will see why it is so urgently
important that we create the Push Back needed to protect our health, our
rights and our freedom at this time.

        DATA SET 1

        1.  An "informal" [e.g., illegal] clinical trial of the Avian Flu vaccine on
about 200 Polish vagrants resulted in 11 immediate deaths and an additional
set of 20 later deaths (approximately 15% of the test population).  The
doctors and nurses involved were charged with murder. (Fact. 2008)

        2.  Approximately 3500 Chinese children died in an Avian Flu vaccine
experiment. (Rumor, 2008)
        3.  The Philippine High Court convicted WHO (The World Health Organization)
of involuntarily sterilizing over 3 million Philippina women through the use
of vaccines. (Fact)
        4.  The WHO in 1985 documented that one of its' primary goals for the use of
a sterility vaccine disguised as a smallpox vaccine was to "eliminate 150
million excess Sub Saharan Africans". (Fact, 1985-ongoing)
        5.  The WHO 5-shot vaccine programs for tetanus in third world countries in
South and Central America caused the involuntary sterilization of millions
of women. (Fact, ongoing)
        6.  Monsanto's MON 810 corn causes sterility according to studies published
by the Austrian Government. (Fact, 2009)
        7.  Monsanto's MON 810 corn contains the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus which,
when ingested, lowers the bodies CD 4 cells to a point which, on immune
tests, indicate that a person has HIV/AIDS.  The lowered CD 4 cells results
from eating GMO corn, the staple of the diet in many parts of Black Africa.
MON 810 is grown in Europe for animal feed and in many places, including the
US, around the world for human food. (Fact, ongoing)
        8.  Merck's Gardasil vaccine causes death, collapse and chronic illness in
young woman and girls, including a new, never-before described "disease"
called Juvenile ALS, a fatal condition in which the nervous system is slowly
destroyed while consciousness remains unimpaired.  This vaccine increases
cervical cancer by 44.7% in women and girls who already have Human Papilloma
Virus.  Cervical Cancer is easily detected and cured in early stages and is
not a major killer of women.  Gardasil contains substances which may cause
sterility in women receiving it and any protection lasts only a few years,
so 9 year olds will probably not be sexually active by the time this
protection has worn off. (Fact, ongoing)
        9.  Baxter International Inc. was in the process of applying for a contract
to provide Avian Flu vaccines to European countries in the event of an Avian
Flu epidemic.  Its Austrian laboratory shipped Seasonal Flu vaccines to 18
countries in Europe.  A laboratory technician tested the Baxter Seasonal Flu
vaccines sent to the Czech Republic and discovered that they were
contaminated with a highly pathogenic version of the Avian Flu, 72 Kilograms
of it, although Level 3 precautions were in place and such contamination
"could not have happened accidentally" according to experts in the field. No
documentation of the destruction of this highly infective material has been
provided although the Austrian Health Ministry insists that the deadly viral
material was destroyed. (Fact, 2008, 2009)
        10.  A WHO investigation into the Baxter contaminated vaccine issue resulted
in NO findings and in NO disciplinary actions.  An Austrian investigation
into the same events yielded the same results. (Fact, 2009)
        11.  Baxter has been rewarded with a lead role in developing, producing and
disseminating the Swine Flu vaccine for the upcoming pandemic. (Fact, 2009)
        12.  Swine Flu was first identified to the public as a serious problem in
April/May 2009 when 168 persons in Mexico were confirmed by CDC and WHO to
have died from the Swine Flu.  This number was later revised downward to
only 16 deaths. (Fact, 2009)
        13.  It normally takes a minimum of 12 to 18 months to create a vaccine
after a specific virus has been identified. (Fact)
        14.  The US Government has spent more than a billion dollars to develop and
to make available the Swine flu vaccine for a disease which poses no
significant health threat.  (Fact, 2009)
        15.  The "Seed Culture" for the Swine Flu virus was provided to vaccine
companies in May, 2009.  Baxter International Inc. announced in June, 2009
that they would have their vaccine ready in July, 2009 . (Fact, 2009)
        16.  A WHO container of Swine Flu virus from Mexico City exploded on a
passenger train in Luzon, Switzerland.  All of the current Swiss cases of
Swine Flu are from the area where the explosion took place.  It is illegal
to ship pathogenic viruses in this way. (Fact, 2009)
        17.  A significant number of virologists and other scientists are on record
stating that the Swine Flu was created in a laboratory and could not evolve
naturally. (Fact, 2009)

       DATA SET 1

         YOUR PICTURE(S)

        YOUR CONCLUSION(S

        DATA SET 2

         1.  Canada, Sweden, Norway, France and other countries have announced
intentions to vaccinate every man, woman and child.  To do so, they are
ordering 2 shots per person of untested, unsafe and unnecessary Swine Flu
Vaccines from a variety of manufacturers. The US Departments of Homeland
Security and Health and Human Services both stated in early 2009 that they
would do so "beginning with those who want it". (Fact, 2009)
        2.  President Obama announced to the public shortly after his inauguration
that every man, woman and child should receive the Avian Flu vaccine this
fall along with seasonal flu shots this coming Fall.  President Obama is on
record saying that he believes that vaccinations should be mandatory. (Fact,
2009)
        3.  The United States has spent $714 Million GPS mapping every front door of
every house and apartment in the country and listing who lives in each house
or apartment under the direction of the White House. (Fact, 2009)
        4.  Many people have reported that they have received calls at home or at
work from agencies of the US Government inquiring about the "number of
unvaccinated children in the household". (Fact, 2009)
        5.  The United States, Norway, Sweden, Austria and other countries have
announced that in case of a Swine Flu pandemic all health and security
authority shall revert to teams and command centers run by the WHO. (Fact,
2009)
        6.  Every recent major event like 9/11, the Madrid bombings or the London
bombings has been accompanied by a materially identical "training exercise"
simulating the actual event involving, confusing and distracting the
legitimate responders. (Fact, 2001-ongoing)
        7.  A major set of FEMA training exercises is scheduled for Monday, 27 July,
2009. (Fact, 2009)

        DATA SET 2

        YOUR PICTURE(S)

        YOUR CONCLUSION(S)

        Draw your own conclusions about what is afoot. And if you, like the officers
and trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation, are deeply concerned by
what you see, intuit and conclude from these facts, you WILL take action by
clicking on the two Action Steps that follow.  And you WILL enlist everyone
you know and can reach to do the same and activate their contacts and
circles of influence.

        Click HERE to tell your legislators and your Governor that you demand your
right to Self-Shield, instead of taking the dangerous vaccine OR being
incarcerated:

        http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275

        Click HERE to urge your national and state legislators to protect food and
farming (you'll find more information below):

        http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

        Yours in health and freedom,

        Major General Albert N. Stubblebine III

        (US Army, Ret.)

        President

        Natural Solutions Foundation

        _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

        URGENT: Push Back Is Working

        Net Roots Assemble! It's Time To Marshal Large Numbers of Voices

        Prevent Marshal Law!

        Self -Shielding and Codex Bills may be Introduced in Congress By Health
Freedom Allies!

        Push Back Working: Urgently Important to Act on Self Shielding Legislation
Demand -- and take that demand viral!  

        We have word from the office of the  most outspoken friend health freedom
has in Congress that he is considering two new bills to support our freedom,
in addition to the nutrient health claims bill that will be re-introduced
into Congress shortly:

        1. A Self-Shielding law which would give you the right to choose to remain
at home rather than take a dangerous Pandemic Vaccine or be incarcerated and
quarantined.

        Click HERE to tell your legislators you demand your right to Self-Shield,
instead of taking the dangerous vaccine OR being incarcerated:

        http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275

        and

        2. A Codex Anti-Harmonization Bill. Taking the US out of Codex's
restrictions on our access to nutrition would be a major step forward!

        Meanwhile a New Farm and Food Safety Bill Threatens...

        You can read our Counsel Ralph's blog on HR2749 here:

        http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2009/07/hr-2749-sic-food-safety-bill.html

        In it he writes: "While Self-Shielding in the face of manufactured pandemics
and weaponized vaccines got our attention; while Codex further degraded the
food supply... Congress was planning its own surprise: the
forced-industrialization-of-farming bills, such as HR 875 & 759, have been
replaced by a new "fast-tracked" (sic) "Food Safety" bill - HR 2749 - that
threatens food, health and freedom. It is, in reality, a "martial law food
control bill" 

        This new Farm and Food Safety (sic) legislation, HR 2749 is being pushed
forward with limited debate as if it were a non-controversial bill and it,
like the other dangerous Farm and Food Safety bills, contains implementation
and harmonization language for Codex. 

        The worst of the Farm and Food Safety (sic) legislation,  HR 2749 is being
moved under a "Suspension of Rules" which is how "non-controversial
legislation, like naming post offices" is usually done; limited debate, no
amendments, one "up or down" vote and while it probably won't be voted on
this week, it could come up in the next couple weeks.WE MUST FLOOD CONGRESS
WITH MESSAGES REGARDING THIS! IF YOU ONLY DO ONE THING AS A RESULT OF THIS
EMAIL, PLEASE, PLEASE, CLICK BELOW AND ASK EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO DO SO TOO!

        Click HERE to urge your national and state legislators to protect food and
farming:

        http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

        Remember, each of these Action Items can be sent in by every member of your
family!

        Have you clicked and sent the Action Items? Great.  Now you can get to work
and find ways to motivate the people in your email list, your relatives, the
folks at your local Farmer's Market, Church, Synagogue, Mosque, Block Club,
School, University or whatever groups of people with whom you communicate.
A health fair in your area?  A folk dance or festival? Great. These are
urgent issues and all we need is a click of the Freedom Mouse from a large
number of people.  It really is up to us to mobilize the kind of Push Back
that really does work.

        Apparently, the Natural Solutions Foundation's enthusiastic Push Back - YOUR
enthusiastic Push Back - is giving us the purchase we need to have
legislation to permit self-shielding AND protection from Codex considered by
a significant Congressman. 

        And our Push Back may even be impacting the plans of those who control
Congress. In order to get HR 2749 out of committee, the sponsors had to
allow an exemption into the bill -- breaching their hard line position that
all food producers were to be treated like industrialized Agrabiz. That
exemption covers any "food (i) produced on a farm; and (ii) sold ...directly
to a consumer or restaurant." While it is not as strong as we'd advise
(actually, we advise that the bill be defeated!) we were the first to call
for explicit protective language for family farms, natural, organic, home,
etc. food production and processing -- and your Push Back made this
exemption possible! The bill must still be defeated, but along the way, we
want to see the exemptions strengthened!

        NOW is the time to pour on the Push Back heat.  Now, when every member of
Congress and State Legislature is aware of these issues.  Now, while the
horrifying FDA-Can-Declare-Martial-Law-And-Seize-Your-Property HR 2749 is
being treated as if it were not controversial, now, while the phony "Swine
Flu" is on everyone's lips (even under their masks!), NOW is the moment when
our Push Back, coupled with helping every single person you know to take
similar action, can have the greatest impact. 

        Self-Shielding is Your Right!

        You know that Health and Health Freedom are under multiple attacks, rather
like a castle being attacked by infantry swarming over the walls, catapults
slamming into the towers, corpses dumped into the wells to poison the water
and flaming arrows arcing high over the walls to land in the thatch roofs of
the homes within the walls.

        Under Common Law, which the Constitution of these United States says is to
be respected, your Home IS your Castle and you are inviolate within it.
Both the UN Declaration of Universal Rights and the Geneva Conventions
agree. But, just as so many other protections and strong walls of freedom
are being breached, so your home is about to be breached.  Under current
legislation, there will be no vaccine exemptions for any reason. You will
either take the vaccine, weaponized and dangerous as it is, or you run the
very real risk of relocation, incarceration, isolation, quarantine and God
knows what else.  One thing for sure, a vaccine refuser will be viewed as
somehow disloyal and there is no reason to think the food, conditions or
treatment will support your health!

        Like a prophet running around in rags inside the castle being breached
sobbing, "Repent ye, repent ye", there are well-meaning people propagating
petitions to refuse vaccines which have the right sentiment, but no
political impact whatsoever. There are well meaning people telling you that
because 48 States have vaccine exemption options, the "Pandemic Emergency"
vaccination will, too. They are governed by different laws and we believe
that there will be no exemptions for them.

        Taken together with the fact that virtually every country of which we are
aware is either ordering 2 shots of the untested, unsafe and unnecessary
Swine Flu vaccine from some vaccine company or other (and there are
apparently 89 different Swine Flu vaccine trials running at the moment!) the
race is on to corral us all into either a vaccination line or a relocation
line.

        These are the vaccines that the FDA wants you to believe are, along with
Tamiflu and its cousin Relenza, the ONLY ways to protect and treat Swine
Flu.  You remember that I told you in one of my earlier reports that we are
no longer permitted to discuss Nano silver in this light, so we are not
discussing it in that light. But I want you to know that I find that Nano
silver, www.Nutronix.com/naturalsolutions

        , is the finest universal nutrient immune system support that I know and has
no known toxicity in any person of any age or health condition.  I trust it
implicitly and believe that having a store of it for my own use and that of
those that I love is very important.

        CHILDREN FIRST!

        Make no mistake: Health Canada, the US and Scotland have said that children
will be first.  I personally am concerned that the White House-directed
$714M GPS marking of every door in America (with a list of who lives behind
that door) plus the phone calls that we are told were received many homes
over the last months asking how many unvaccinated children live in the home
may mean that YOU might be able to refuse vaccination and accept the
consequences, but children will not be permitted to have their vaccination
refused by parents and they may be either mandatorily vaccinated in public
schools OR removed from the home if their parents refuse.

        The fact is, governments are getting ready to turn over their health, police
and other powers to the WHO/UN (aka "the New World Order") now that their
PPP (Planned Pandemic Pretext) is being activated. Jane Burgermeister, the
courageous journalist who has filed criminal charges over what she says is
genocidal intent by drug companies and governments reports:

        US: F.E.M.A. is planning nationwide terrorism drills in the United States
set to begin on Monda, July 27th, 2009.... [9/11, 7/7, the Madrid Bombings
and other disasters have all occurred during virtually nearly identical
"exercises" involving those responders and troops who would otherwise focus
on an event of their magnitude and suddenness - REL] 

        In the event of a pandemic declaration, WHO will coordinate the activities
of Homeland Security and FEMA from a special pandemic control room linked to
supercomputers of the UN security forces which  appear set to be the the
nerve center for any operation to transport large numbers of Americans by
rail or road to the FEMA camps or [to or - REL] from special quarantine
centers [to be - REL] set up at 19 airports.

        Any systematic and sustained disruption to the operation of the WHO pandemic
control room, of Homeland Security and FEMA headquarters or of the logistics
of its units, of railways or other transport infrastructure leading to FEMA
camps would be a severe blow to any covert mission to mass murder Americans
and leave the country to be occupied by foreign troops under the direction
of WHO and the UN. [This suggests the possibility of a false flag event
during a Pandemic Emergency situation.  We have no information to suggest
any such event, but we are mindful of the implications of such an event -
REL]

        SWEDEN: Sweden has ordered two doses of Swine Flu Vaccine per person (18
million). The Swedish authority that deals with disease control says on
their website that in case of a pandemic there will be "cooperation" with
the EU and WHO. Sweden's pandemic plan indicates special pandemic "crisis
management committees" will be given significant emergency powers in the
event of a pandemic and be able to usurp the authority of other branches of
local and national government, and will apparently also be ultimately taking
their orders from WHO and the EU.
http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:CoPQVpRS2ygJ:www.fao.org/docs/eims/upload//221496/national_plan_ai_swe_en.pdf+sweden+pandemic+plan&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk

        AUSTRIA: Under Austria's Influenza Pandemic Plan of 2005, WHO and the EU are
set to take charge of Austria via a special crisis management team (SKKM) to
be set up in the Federal Ministry of Interior in the event of a "pandemic"
emergency. Inoculating the entire Austrian population with (Baxter) shots is
a declared objective of the SKKM. The injections will contain a mix of
"whole virus", mercury and adjuvants - and so be very toxic.
http://www.bmg.gv.at/cms/site/attachments/3/6/8/CH0742/CMS1126084167391/pp_inetversion12_061.pdf
http://www.bmg.gv.at/cms/site/attachments/3/6/8/CH0742/CMS1126084167391/pp_englisch.pdf

        Similar pandemic plans exist in countries all over Europe. In some
countries, such as France, the injections could be mandatory.

        DON'T BE SILENT!

        http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275

        Yours in health and freedom,

        The Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation

        Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.)

        President

        Rima E. Laibow, MD

        Medical Director

        Ralph Fucetola, JD

        Counsel and Trustee

        PS - Yes, we titled this emergency format an "Action eBlast" to
differentiate it from our regular email eAlerts. This is an emergency
message and we need you to take immediate action!

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The only purpose of the census is to determine the number of congressman each state can send to Washington. Any information beyond the number of voters living at that address requires you to waive your 4th and 5th amendment rights. You decide if you want to waive those right for yourself.  Under no circumstances can a de facto (fake, without legitimate authority granted by a written constitutional contract)

Definitions:

government  – Exercise of authority in a political unit, to rule.

Political Unit – a politically organized body of people under a single government.

There are several political units in existence on the North American Continent today.

Political Unit 1 : A population of FREE people, governed by the time tested rule of law, administered by the Constitution of the United States.

Political Unit 2:  A population of confused people, believing themselves to be bound by illegitimate  constantly changing statutory regulated rule of man, designed to protect them, feed them, house them, and coddle them from cradle to grave.

Political Unit 3:  A population of people feeding their families by processing the illegitimate  statutory regulations upon political Unit 2.

This Constitution and the Laws made in Pursuance thereof… shall be the
supreme Law of the Land…all Judges shall be bound thereby…any Thing…to
the Contrary notwithstanding.
[Article VI, Clause 2, of the Constitution of the
United States of America
(1789)]

The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form
and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void. Unconstitutional
law bears no power to enforce, it purports to settle as if it never existed,
for unconstitutionality dates from the enactment of such a law and not such
time as branded in an open court of law. It confers no rights; it imposes no
duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is in legal
contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed. No courts
are bound to uphold it and no persons are bound to obey it.
[16 Am Jur 256]

The Fourth and Fifth Amendments were described in Boyd v. United States, 116
U.S. 616, 630, as protection against all governmental invasions ….of the
sanctity of a man’s home and the privacies of life. We recently referred
[381 U.S. 479, 485] in Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 656, to the Fourth
Amendment as creating a ….right to privacy, no less important than any
other right carefully and particularly reserved to the people.”
[GRISWOLD v. CONNECTICUT, 381 U.S. 479 (1965)]

Declaration To Make To Census Takers:

“I hereby affirm that the provisions of Title 13 ….requiring me to
disclose my race, personal financial data, birth date, or any other personal,
private information to the Bureau of the Census, an agency of the United
States government, constitutes an unreasonable, unwarranted search of my
person, house, papers, and/or effects, and a governmental invasion of the
sanctity of my home and the privacies of life. As such, these provisions
violate the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution, and are thus wholly
void and I am not bound to obey them.

I have completed the only those sections of the Census form pertaining to
the Constitutionally-mandated actual enumeration, as follows:

1. The actual number of people living at the address printed on the form,
excluding untaxed Native Americans;
2. Age of each person in accordance with US Const. Amendment XIV, Section 2;
3. Sex of each person, in accordance with US Const. Amendment XIV, Section 2.

I have thus fulfilled my obligation to the attainment of the actual
enumeration of the populace of the United States.

Any fine or other sanction that is levied by any office or organization
stemming from the unconstitutional provisions of Title 13 in connection with
my response to this or any other Census-related questioning will be
challenged in a court of law.”

HR 2749: “Food Safety” Bill Has Martial Law Provisions by Food Freedom

Sun, Jul 5th, 2009 12:00:00 am

Source: Food Freedom HR 2749 is a strange bill in many ways.

While the other “food safety” bills have been around since winter, allowing for much public discussion on the internet, HR 2749 has only suddenly appeared. It is a mutant conglomeration of the worst of the other bills, with the addition of one very original part – martial law. When it was a draft, it was Waxman’s bill. But once given a number, it became Dingel’s who already had a “food safety” bill, HR 759. So Waxman got none and Dingel got two. (Was this because Waxman, being Jewish, was a hideous choice to introduce a bill with Codex in it – designed by the Nazi pharmaceutical companies that funded Hitler, provided the gas for the gas chambers, experimented on prisoners with vaccines – and is expected to kill millions?) *

HR 2749 would give FDA the power to order a quarantine of a geographic area, including “prohibiting or restricting the movement of food or of any vehicle being used or that has been used to transport or hold such food within the geographic area.” [This - "that has been used to transport or hold such food" - would mean all cars that have ever brought groceries home or any pickup someone has eaten take-out in, so this means ALL TRANSPORTATION can be shut down under this. This is using food as a cover for martial law.] Under this provision, farmers markets and local food sources could be shut down, even if they are not the source of the contamination. The agency can halt all movement of all food in a geographic area. [This is also a means of total control over the population under the cover of food, and at any time.]

The bill is unusual, too, because slow as it was to appear. The little bugger of bill has made up for it since. It got a number on June 10, went to committee on June 17, passed instantly, and is headed for a vote on the floor of the House. The first Patriot Act was passed using fear of terrorism. This Patriot Act is more coy, hiding under a cloak of “food safety” and but also using fear – fear of food contamination.

Evidently, Americans are supposed to be so frightened by the slightest possibility of a terrorist or of E-coli, they would trade away all their precious, hard fought freedoms for the promise of safety. Or at least, that is what the trade-off has become. “Terrorism” and “contamination” are great bugaboos used to open doors to an end to the US Constitution. That is exactly what we are left with after those who wrote HR 2749 are done. Who did write these bills? It seems Monsanto had not only a hand, but a “defining” influence.http://farmwars.info/?p=594

This redefining of reality is what seems to be underlying all the loss of freedom. Normal and free are disappearing into the maw of corporate definitions of reality. So, we begin with contaminated food from filthy corporate processors and concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). And what do we end up with after that reality is ground up by corporate legal hands? Changes in the definition of risk so that natural things are treated as dangerous and toxic things are untouched, such that:

• Healthy, normal farms are taken over by government as though they were run by criminals and contaminated corporate slaughterhouses are untouched;

• The necessary freedom of individuals to live and grow food and be left alone are somehow suddenly destroyed, though they were never the source of any food contamination issue; and such that •

The profit and control and power of corporations which were absolutely the source of the increasingly terrible food, is somehow suddenly vastly increased. Thanks to corporate control over reality, our wanting to clean up corporate processors and feedlots and CAFOS and end up with farmers’ markets and local farms and organic food has become the industrialization and potential destruction of every healthy part of the food system and the triumph of the most contaminated and toxic part. And in the non-bargain, we lost all freedoms and they took all control. And “all” is not a hyperbole here, for one need only look at another provision of HR 2749 to feel how insane, how distant from all we ever wanted.

* HR 2749 would empower FDA to regulate how crops are raised and harvested. It puts the federal government right on the farm, dictating to our farmers. [What is missing in pointing out this astounding control, is that it opens the door to CODEX and WTO "good farming practices" will include the elimination of organic farming by eliminating manure, mandating GMO animal feed, imposing animal drugs, and ordering applications of petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides. Farmers, thus, will be locked not only into the industrialization of once normal and organic farms but into the forced purchase of industry's products. They will be slaves on the land, doing the work they are ordered to do - against their own best wisdom - and paying out to industry against their will.

There will be no way to be frugal, to grow one's own grain to feed the animals, to raise healthy animals without GMO grains or drugs, to work with nature at all. Grassfed cattle and poultry and hogs will be finished. So, it needs to be made clear where control will take us. And weren't these the "rumors on the internet" that were dismissed but are clearly the case?]

When we wanted not to get E-coli in processed meat, did we intend to put our farmers into corporate servitude? Did we plan to have our own lives straight-jacketed by a million new controls over our own gardens, our own desire to grow food, our own plans to start small businesses, our own dreams to have a small piece of land and farm ourselves? Who has the audacity to take our needs and grotesquely bastardize them in these ways, while giving the destruction and totalitarian control the sham name of “food safety”?

We wanted good food. We never wanted to trap our farmers into an industrial prison on their own land, afraid moment to moment of not fulfilling some monstrous set of instructions that never end – rules the farmers loathe, rules that have not only nothing to do with real farming but which are antithetical to it. Why have we ended up with HR 2749, an intense corporate nightmare around the most central and necessary aspects of a free country and of free human beings – farming and food?

American farming needs to be relieved of the burdens it has been under, not finished off by its corporate competition. It needs freedom to flourish again. Obviously – and Congress people who would think to vote for such absurdities, take note – the imposition of surveillance, monitoring, warrantless entry, taking of all records, licensing, fees, Codex and NAIS, in addition to massive penalties and prison terms (all without judicial review over even appropriateness and validity), are not how one thanks American farmers for holding together the only working part of our food system.

See Literal Enslavement by Linn Cohen-Cole. HR 2749 is the most vicious and insane bill one could imagine. Who treats our farmers in this way? Who believes that such police measures can provide for the rebirth of farming and the return of healthy food? Who wrote this bill that trashes the freedom of all our lives? HR 2749 was not what we ordered and it should be sent back the bowels of hell it came from. HR 2749 is both insane and cruel. And the deceptiveness of hiding a Patriot Act in it and the brutal rush to slip it through Congress are ANTI-democratic. Go here to tell Congress, “No.” http://www.ftcldf.org/petitions/pnum993.php

Posted by: DrD | July 7, 2009

DeMint amendment to audit the Federal Reserve blocked by Senate Leadership

Posted by: DrD | July 3, 2009

The legacy of the American National Debt

MOUNTAIN OF DEBT: Legacy of debt from Founding Fathers not celebrated on Independence Day

* By Tom Raum, Associated Press Writer

* On Friday July 3, 2009, 11:20 am EDT

* Print WASHINGTON (AP) — The Founding Fathers left one legacy not celebrated on Independence Day but which affects us all. It’s the national debt. The country first got into debt to help pay for the Revolutionary War. Growing ever since, the debt stands today at a staggering $11.5 trillion — equivalent to over $37,000 for each and every American. And it’s expanding by over $1 trillion a year. The mountain of debt easily could become the next full-fledged economic crisis without firm action from Washington, economists of all stripes warn. “Unless we demonstrate a strong commitment to fiscal sustainability in the longer term, we will have neither financial stability nor healthy economic growth,” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke recently told Congress.

Higher taxes, or reduced federal benefits and services — or a combination of both — may be the inevitable consequences. The debt is complicating efforts by President Barack Obama and Congress to cope with the worst recession in decades as stimulus and bailout spending combine with lower tax revenues to widen the gap. Interest payments on the debt alone cost $452 billion last year — the largest federal spending category after Medicare-Medicaid, Social Security and defense. It’s quickly crowding out all other government spending. And the Treasury is finding it harder to find new lenders.

The United States went into the red the first time in 1790 when it assumed $75 million in the war debts of the Continental Congress. Alexander Hamilton, the first treasury secretary, said, “A national debt, if not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.” Some blessing. Since then, the nation has only been free of debt once, in 1834-1835. The national debt has expanded during times of war and usually contracted in times of peace, while staying on a generally upward trajectory. Over the past several decades, it has climbed sharply — except for a respite from 1998 to 2000, when there were annual budget surpluses, reflecting in large part what turned out to be an overheated economy.

The debt soared with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and economic stimulus spending under President George W. Bush and now Obama. The odometer-style “debt clock” near Times Square — put in place in 1989 when the debt was a mere $2.7 trillion — ran out of numbers and had to be shut down when the debt surged past $10 trillion in 2008. The clock has since been refurbished so higher numbers fit. There are several debt clocks on Web sites maintained by public interest groups that let you watch hundreds, thousands, millions zip by in a matter of seconds.

The debt gap is “something that keeps me awake at night,” Obama says. He pledged to cut the budget “deficit” roughly in half by the end of his first term. But “deficit” just means the difference between government receipts and spending in a single budget year. This year’s deficit is now estimated at about $1.85 trillion. Deficits don’t reflect holdover indebtedness from previous years. Some spending items — such as emergency appropriations bills and receipts in the Social Security program — aren’t included, either, although they are part of the national debt. The national debt is a broader, and more telling, way to look at the government’s balance sheets than glancing at deficits. According to the Treasury Department, which updates the number “to the penny” every few days, the national debt was $11,518,472,742,288 on Wednesday.

The overall debt is now slightly over 80 percent of the annual output of the entire U.S. economy, as measured by the gross domestic product. By historical standards, it’s not proportionately as high as during World War II, when it briefly rose to 120 percent of GDP. But it’s still a huge liability. Also, the United States is not the only nation struggling under a huge national debt. Among major countries, Japan, Italy, India, France, Germany and Canada have comparable debts as percentages of their GDPs.

Where does the government borrow all this money from? The debt is largely financed by the sale of Treasury bonds and bills. Even today, amid global economic turmoil, those still are seen as one of the world’s safest investments. That’s one of the rare upsides of U.S. government borrowing. Treasury securities are suitable for individual investors and popular with other countries, especially China, Japan and the Persian Gulf oil exporters, the three top foreign holders of U.S. debt. But as the U.S. spends trillions to stabilize the recession-wracked economy, helping to force down the value of the dollar, the securities become less attractive as investments. Some major foreign lenders are already paring back on their purchases of U.S. bonds and other securities. And if major holders of U.S. debt were to flee, it would send shock waves through the global economy — and sharply force up U.S. interest rates.

As time goes by, demographics suggest things will get worse before they get better, even after the recession ends, as more baby boomers retire and begin collecting Social Security and Medicare benefits. While the president remains personally popular, polls show there is rising public concern over his handling of the economy and the government’s mushrooming debt — and what it might mean for future generations. If things can’t be turned around, including establishing a more efficient health care system, “We are on an utterly unsustainable fiscal course,” said the White House budget director, Peter Orszag.

Some budget-restraint activists claim even the debt understates the nation’s true liabilities. The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, established by a former commerce secretary and investment banker, argues that the $11.4 trillion debt figures does not take into account roughly $45 trillion in unlisted liabilities and unfunded retirement and health care commitments. That would put the nation’s full obligations at $56 trillion, or roughly $184,000 per American, according to this calculation.

Posted by: DrD | July 3, 2009

EMERGENCY ALERT – Stop the NEW Real ID – S.1261 – The PASS Act

One possible future includes a cashless commercial system. Your RFID chip is constantly responding to strategically placed polling devices. All items (phones, clothes, cars, dogs, cows, people, etc.) are being tagged with these small devices.

Simply walk into the grocery store, grab what you want and hit the door. The store’s real time digital cameras are linked with the RFID chip in your licenses which automatically keeps track of your bank accounts, medical information, and recent purchases to insure a safe and secure transaction and your ID remains safe.

Posted by: DrD | July 2, 2009

Michele Bachman – We Now Have A Total Gangster Government – GM = Government Motors

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