Yesterday we find out that the SEC has new expanded powers… today the administration is asking for new powers for the FBI. The FBI will be able to demand all the Internet information of not only the company but all its employees… if they deem it a terrorist threat without going to a judge first… and if they do you cannot even tell someone. Hmmm… if it is a terrorist threat, why would they not want to go to a judge first? What happened to the promise of the most transparent presidency ever???
White House Proposal Would Ease FBI Access to Records of Internet Activity… without warrants and you won’t be allowed to tell anyone that they took your records… really?
Obama's SEC gets free pass
It's interesting that the left is largely silent on the blatant power grabs by this administration - such as the latest with the SEC who are now exempt from Freedom of Information Act requests. Everyone should be up in arms because no matter who is in control, government and power has proven to be a horrible combination. Glenn has more on radio today. ( Transcript, Insider Audio)
If you have not already read the Weatherman Underground Manifesto: You Do Not Have to be a Weatherman to Hear the Wind Blow… Please do, It is Imperative! It is what Obama and his minions are using to Fundamentally Transform America. It is what he promised us during the election and they are well underway. Please read the manifesto, especially if you children and bring them to the 8/28 Event at the feet of Abraham Lincoln.
PART 1 can now be seen here! - CLICK FOR VIDEO
The Names Have Changed But the Philosophy Is the Same
Amazing Bill Ayers Audio Unearthed… from the same Week Obama Worked With Him…
The names have changed but the philosophy is the same |
Thursday, July 29, 2010
FNC By Glenn Beck
The goal of the Weather Underground was a “dictatorship” of a “new democracy” that develops into socialism.
OK, let's focus on what a dictatorship is: "An autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual, the dictator." Well, that could never happen in America, right? But you tell me: Are we heading in the direction of individual liberty or an all-powerful government controlled by few?
Take health care and financial reform — both massive bills that leave much of the decision-making in the hands of unelected bureaucrats who are selected by the president — namely Cass Sunstein.
The SEC just announced that they don't have to answer to the Freedom of Information requests. The FBI can look at your e-mails, without going to a judge first. And what about the move to get rid of the Electoral College in states like Massachusetts, Illinois, New Jersey, Hawaii, Maryland and Washington?
This is a power struggle, and which direction is the power currently heading? More power for you, the individual, or more power for Washington? You have to decide: Are all of the decisions by this administration merely a series of wild, unlucky mistakes or is it a power struggle? Is the president trying to stabilize or fundamentally transform America?
A lot of people will glance at the Weather Underground manifesto and say, Oh, Glenn! It's the 1960s. This has got nothing to do with today. Well, it's not like President Obama has the manifesto stapled to the wall behind his picture of Lincoln so he can look at it when no one is around and secretly plot to end the Vietnam War.
But, as we look through the manifesto, you can see the philosophy is the same. Insert the victims of today over the victims of yesteryear, clean up the outdated-radical-hippie language of the '60s and you pretty much have a position paper from this administration.
Back then, the victims were the Vietnamese, the students, the labor unions, the working class, the Third World and the oppressed. Well, today, it's no longer the Vietnamese. It's the Iraqis or the Palestinians or the Afghan people.
In other words, whatever side we're supposedly not on.
And while the left is still complaining about the oppression of unions and students, their new victim of police brutality and racism are illegal immigrants. This was their approach towards the Arizona law. They knew the law specifically prohibited targeting anyone because of their race, so they had to fall back on the idea that the police were so racist that they would violate the law to harass Hispanics.
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Remember this gem from the president:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: If you are a Hispanic American in Arizona — your great-grandparents may have been there before Arizona was even a state. But now, suddenly, if you don't have your papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you're going to be harassed. That's something that could potentially happen. (This entire statement was a falsehood!!)
Clinton-Appointed Judge Guts Arizona Immigration Law
(END VIDEO CLIP)
This is not a new tactic. The police, presented as a racist entity of capitalism that brutalizes innocent people, have been central to this movement since the Weather Underground of the '60s: "The pigs are the capitalist state... pigs really are the issue and people will understand this, one way or another. They can have a liberal understanding that pigs are sweaty, working-class barbarians who overreact and commit 'police brutality.' Or they can understand pigs as the repressive imperialist State doing its job."
When you understand this philosophy, doesn't the “police acted stupidly” comment make a little more sense? See, it doesn't matter to them why you think the police are evil racists, it just matters that you do. The Weather Underground believed that the police had to be resisted at every turn and they followed closely a principle that might seem familiar to those who have watched this program over the past year.
They wrote: “Our beginnings should stress self-defense... moving toward (according to necessity) armed self-defense, all the time honoring and putting forth the principle that ‘political power comes out of the barrel of a gun.’"
Hmm, where have I heard that before? Here's manufacturing czar, Ron Bloom.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
RON BLOOM, WHITE HOUSE MANUFACTURING "CZAR": We know that the free market is nonsense. We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
America, do you know anyone who thinks like that? Anybody? Even if you did, would you hire them? Our president doesn't just know somebody who thinks like that, he's surrounded by them.
Now, if you think we're only talking about guys in suits blabbing on about political theory, remember, there are people dedicated to this cause who are still violent and active, such as the New Black Panther Party. Here they are in 2000:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MALIK SHABAZZ, FORMER CHAIRMAN OF NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY: A black dream today of self defense — of self defense — in the face of racism, in the face of police brutality, in the face of overwhelming odds against us, we today have a vision of a black dream today. A black dream that when we see caskets rolling in the black community, that when we see caskets rolling and funerals in the black community, that we will see caskets and funerals in the community of our enemy as well today.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
The philosophy of these Black Panther radicals is the same as the radicals of the Weather Underground. They used race as a powerful weapon. We've talked to you at length about liberation theology on this program. Well, so did the Weather Underground: “The black liberation movement... is automatically in and of itself an inseparable part of the whole revolutionary struggle against U.S. imperialism and for international socialism.”
They are using race as a weapon!
Video: Obama Speech Police Shutdown YouTube Videos
And from the founder of black liberation theology, James Cone:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JAMES CONE, FOUNDER, BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY: Well, if you're identifying with the victim, you not only want to feel good about that, you also have to pay back what you took. You just don't say, "Please forgive me now." The only way in which your repentance, your forgiveness can be — can be authentic, your reception of it can be authentic, your repentance can be authentic, is that you give back what you took. And white people took a lot from black people.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
Liberation theology is less of a religion than an anti-capitalist political philosophy. The Weather Underground made it very clear that you cannot separate these two viewpoints. They criticized “so-called black capitalists who are promoted by the power structure to seem independent but are really agents of white monopoly capital.”
What does that mean? Do I need to say more than Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell?
PART 3 can now be seen here! - CLICK FOR VIDEO
What's next in the radical blueprint for Obama? The youth.
Obamas’ Liberal Re-Education Program for American Youth
Video: Militant Black Obama Youth Group
Video: Obama Youth Groups Sing… Sounding All Too Familiar - Please watch to the end - We’ve seen it before!
Do not think these things cannot happen in America. They have happened before! In the early 1900’s children were used in America, as part of the Yellow Dog Youth League, to spy on their neighbors and parents… just like the Hitlerjugend was used in Germany!
NEA: Let's celebrate communism! Teachers' union, Mao's launch of 'People's Republic': http://bit.ly/docVhH
- Is the National Civilian Security Force Obama Wants Americorp?: Another one of those scrubbed videos! Why?
- Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times Part 4 – Another? Why?
- Michelle Obama is Building Her Boot Camps For Radicals with Tax-Payer Money
- There has never been an administration who has scrubbed, pulled an changed as much history and current information as the Obama Administration, in such a short time. It should make you wonder… especially after espousing goals to be the most transparent administration ever.
H. R. 5741 - To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.
PDF of the full bill: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h5741ih.txt.pdf
Status of this bill: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-5741
Jul 15, 2010: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Make no mistake, this is mandatory service required by the President for whatever purpose he sees fit. During the Presidential campaign, Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel talked about the National Civilian Security Force Obama wanted, and Rahm stated it would be mandatory for those between 18 and 25 years old. Clearly they are expanding the age group for this mandatory National Civilian Security Force.
If you wondered what he meant when he talked about this Civilian Force during the campaign, no need to wonder anymore.
Is this okay with you?
PART 4 can now be seen here! - CLICK FOR VIDEO
America… you can continue to hide your dead in the sand… your and your country’s peril. Or you can draw a line in the sand and prepare to stand against it all… Think about it, Think about it… What were the dreams of Barrack Obama’s Father?? Why did he leave him? His dreams were to pursue Marxism and Communism! Is there any wonder why he pursues the route?
If you have not read The Obama Nation and Dreams from My Father, which we all know now was written by Obama’s Weather Underground friend and now Professor Bill Ayers, you need to… after you read the manifesto.
Hundreds took to the streets to protest in Arizona. Interestingly enough is that they were almost all professional SEIU (union) protestors. Not locals… Not illegals. You must ask yourself why!
PART 5 can now be seen here! - CLICK FOR VIDEO
Urgent: 3-Day Journey Part 2 – Please Watch
Beginning of a 3-Day Journey… Please Watch
Nutroots…. Uh Netroots Nation Attacks Glenn Beck and American Patriots…
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You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows.
Bob Dylan's use of the phrase, "You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows" in Subterranean Homesick Blues encouraged the young to make their own decisions, including about drugs, to know what's happening based on changing conditions in order to know about what's coming. It's based on the nautical phrase to know the windward side.
July 24, 2009, 2:22PM
"Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation." …Eugene Debs
I've been thinking about the lack of anger at what's transpired in the US and the world regarding the banking crisis. A crisis in which America's and the world's middle class lost trillions of dollars from their retirement portfolios and pension funds to unregulated gambling by the kingpins of the financial world. To add insult to injury, one firm that profited by selling the market short as it began its descent received massive amounts of cash from those taxpayers who had lost fortunes in the collapse as did another firm that invented the investment vehicles that led to the downfall. Perhaps worst of all, the same rubes who lost all that net worth were asked to bail out those firms that precipitated the crisis in the first place. All the while, the legislature wasn't legislating protections, the regulators weren't regulating, the auditors weren't auditing, and the rating agencies were feathering their own nests while fouling ours. We should all be pissed. But I'm not seeing much anger, just quiet resolution, shoulder to the wheel, nose to the grindstone, as the lathe of heaven sculpts the future of our parents, ourselves, and our children.
Trying to make sense of the general absence of outrage from those of the middle class who lost so much in this crisis, I reflect on the banking and social crises of the early 20th century and the dynamics in play at the time. More anger was directed toward the firms guilty of the financial gaming then and it manifested in strong regulatory reforms in the banking industry. Of course the sense of outrage had been building for some time. The antitrust movement in the latter part of the 1800s and early 1900s, plus corporate/government scandals had primed Americans to be keenly aware of the profound disadvantage ordinary Americans suffered when pitted against the wealth and organization of the capitalists. While the trustbusters of the earlier generation had curtailed overt collusion between principles in any given industry there remained a more insidious, and amorphous type of collusive thought among industrialists. At the time the labor movements in America and around the world attempted to organize workers in order to combat corporate greed and attain better pay, working conditions, and workers rights. Leaders such as Eugene Debs appeared in the US and began to inspire workers to claim their rightful share of the economic pie. The overthrow of the Tsar in Russia, giving birth to a large Communist nation, dedicated to anti-capitalistic ideals must have struck fear into the hearts of capitalists here and around the globe.
The manufacturers were cautious of pushing their agenda so far that workers in the US might actually rise up against them, and remove them from their position at the heart of the economic engine of the world. It was an era that the moneyed class will not soon forget. They quickly set out to discredit communism in particular and socialism in general, and did a fair job of it. Today we hear charges of socialism leveled at policy suggestions as if such concepts were born of Hades with little or no regard for the underlying humanistic principles on which those socialist ideas rest. Back in the early part of the 20th century the leaders of industry were truly afraid of how far the workers of America would go to achieve their goals. These industrialists show every sign of having completely recovered their composure in the interim. They no longer fear the mob which has quietly been lulled to sleep with a specially prepared version of Grimm's Corporate Fairy Tales.
"I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, somebody else would lead you out." Eugene Debs
In retrospect, I think the Captains of Industry learned an unforgettable lesson from their brush with mortality, and what that was, and how they implement those ideas accounts for much of America's torpor when we ask 'Where is the outrage?'. The first part of this process was the co-opting of those who should rightfully feel outrage. At the tail end of the depression of the 30s, the US entered the war against the Axis powers, which united Americans for the most part, in a righteous and just cause. Anger toward corporate greed was diverted to a more easily quantifiable enemy whose combat brought America's engines of production roaring back to life in the production of war materiel. Following the worldwide conflict the US economy boomed as it became the supplier of manufactured goods and food to a world still recovering from the wars' ravages. To coin a phrase, we were rolling in it, (dough), and for once there was enough to satisfy the desires of the captains of industry as well as labor. The strength of unions continued to grow, at least for a while, and that was a worry for those holding the economic reins of the American economy. The civil rights movement added to the earlier successes of organized labor in spreading wealth from the capitalists to the workers by demanding equal treatment, voting rights, and pay for America's minorities. So sometime in the 1960s, a meme began to circulate. The message was that the American middle class is a partner in the corporate successes of Industry. Over time we came to believe, without much scrutiny, that our personal financial well-being was inexorably linked to the ideas promulgated by industrialists and financiers. Thus began the great co-opting of American middle class and labor. Polls have shown that as much as 40% of Americans believe the are in the top 20% of Americans when personal wealth is the yardstick*. The ongoing meme has worked to convince a significant portion of the middle class that they are actually upper class, and as such should support the ruling class's programs and goals, (see: Trickle Down Economics). The apparent dichotomy between capitalist's goals and labor's became even more apparent as industries began abandoning labor and producing goods abroad in order to increase corporate profits by 10%, while saving Americans 3% on the cost of Teflon coated skillets and other gew-gaws of 20th century life. Meanwhile union labor jobs as well as middle management jobs began drifting away to wash up on foreign shores, as we made the transition to the so-called service economy and free trade.
No one really explained that such an economy is essentially static, tied to population increases as the only real way to increase the market for 'product', and consequently overall wealth. A few will live the Capitalist dream of building a better mousetrap such as Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs and increase their cut of the available wealth. So a few will have carved immense fortunes from the remnants of the middle class, while many more work two jobs, trying to make ends meet as they reach for the brass ring of economic success in the 21st century. Many still believe that their fortunes revolve around the economic ideologies of the corporations that are bleeding them dry, with high healthcare costs, insurance rates, the latest, 47" plasma screen TV, and the premium cable package to back it up.
And now that I've gone and mentioned TV, I guess I will continue a bit along those lines as to how these 'memes' become part and parcel of our cultural thought. One need only ask oneself who owns the means of distributing news/infotainment? Other than little corners of the web such as TPM, those media moguls are the same industrialists that have been defining the message from the beginning. So, with the exception of these still open corners of the World Wide Web, if the message starts to slip a bit, the corporatocracy just keeps posing questions in the form of news analysis and commentary. Ready-made, wind-up corporate weathermen, primed to tell us which way the wind blows, so those who are not paying full attention will know when to trim the sails of their expectations for healthcare reform, etc. Just keep repeating, " Obama's health care reform is imperiled" often enough, and people get the message. Everybody loves a winnah! And wants to back a winner. Mortgage products aren't the only thing that's been sliced and diced and released for test marketing. The American public has been studied, it's demographic preferences rated and weighted by politically and psychologically astute marketing experts. In short, these guys have got your number and mine. If you listen to them, everybody is a winnah! Step right up! Come see the dog-faced boy! Three tosses for a dollar! Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! That's about what we're left with now in the MSM. A carney side-show barker, and a trip through the hall of mirrors while trying to make sense of the continuing transfer of wealth from the many to the few, while the meme is circulated, and the next question is posed: Why should the rich fund the poor's healthcare? Contrary to the message promulgated by those who would co-opt the righteous anger of the newly displaced, the unemployed, those bankrupted by soaring healthcare costs, and those who work too hard for too little money, these Masters of Industry aren't your partners, and they don't have your interests at heart. You could cry in frustration, but it would be more effective if, like the workers of the early 20th century, you got MAD.
*I couldn't find a link to this, though I know what I stated is generally correct. If anyone knows of this particular poll, please supply a link.
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