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Obama’s Green Mafia Gets More Ink

May 09 2010 Published by under CCX, Glenn Beck, Obama

Wednesday 05/06/10 Investors Business Daily getting even closer to an outright charge of criminal abuse of power in this piece on Obama’s $10 trillion “green” corruption scheme. Complete text below & in screenshot at bottom. Highlights are mine.
Original link to article: http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=532610
Europe’s Carbon Mafia, and Ours
Corruption: The carbon trading system being pushed here has spawned crime and fraud across the pond. Cap-and-trade is not about saving the planet. It’s about money and power, and absolute power corrupting absolutely.
All across Europe authorities have been conducting raids, rounding up individuals involved in a new version of Climate-gate. This time the data aren’t corrupted. Europe’s Emissions Trading System is. The system is so sick, it’s turned out to be a scam built upon a scam.
Twenty-five people have been arrested in raids by British and German authorities as part of a pan-European crackdown on carbon credit VAT tax fraud.
U.K. officials announced raids on 81 offices and homes, nabbing 13 people in England and eight in Scotland. The operation involved 450 investigators from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs office.
German authorities raided 230 locations, including the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and the offices of RWE, one of the largest energy firms in Europe. The German operation involved 1,000 investigators targeting 50 companies and 150 suspects.
The amount of money involved in carbon trading is huge and the temptations vast. While our Congress demagogues about banks and their “complex financial instruments,” they are simple compared to cap-and-trade, which as we have noted involves essentially the buying and selling of air. Throw in an oppressive value-added tax and you have a recipe for corruption and fraud.
Last December, Europol, the European criminal intelligence agency, announced that Emissions Trading System fraud had resulted in about 5 billion euros in lost revenues as Europe’s carbon traders schemed to avoid paying Europe’s VAT and pocket the difference. In announcing the raids, the agency said that as much as 90% of Europe’s carbon trades were the result of fraudulent activity.
“Carbon markets are highly susceptible to fraud, given their complexity and the fact that it’s not always clear what is being traded,” says Oscar Reyes of Carbon Trade Watch.
Climate change has been found to be a fraud. Now the system to fight it has been. Yet it’s that system the administration and others want to establish here through cap-and-trade legislation such as Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Boxer.
As we also have noted, the mechanism for such phantom carbon trading here has already been established in the form of the Chicago Climate Exchange. The Joyce Foundation in 2000 and 2001 provided the seed money to start CCX when Barack Obama sat on its board.
CCX founder Richard Sandor estimates the climate trading market could be “a $10 trillion dollar market.” It is an invitation to fraud that would make Europe’s ETS scandal seem like petty theft.
In 2000, according to Joyce Foundation records, $347,600 was allocated to Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where Sandor was a research professor, “to design a Midwestern pilot program for the voluntary trading of carbon dioxide and other emissions that cause climate change.”
Now President Obama would make such carbon trading mandatory, limit total emissions and make carbon as valuable a commodity as booze during Prohibition.
The Joyce Foundation’s two grants totaled just over $1 million. CCX has proved very lucrative for Sandor, whose 8 million shares in the exchange has grown to more than $260 million even before a national cap-and-trade system like Europe’s is established.
Al Gore, who recently increased his carbon footprint by spending $8.9 million on an oceanview villa near Santa Barbara, Calif., sitting on 1.5 acres with a swimming pool, spa, fountains, five bedrooms, nine bathrooms and no fewer than six fireplaces, is co-founder of Generation Investment Management LLP, the fifth largest shareholder in CCX.
The largest shareholder is, uh, Goldman Sachs. Other CCX founders include former Goldman Sachs partner David Blood, as well as Mark Ferguson and Peter Harris, also of Goldman Sachs. Presumably they know a lot about playing shell games with other people’s money.
What has happened in Europe is going to happen here and may already have begun. We, too, can save the earth for fun and profit.

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$10 Trillion Tale of Corruption from 2006 Chicago to Oval Office

Apr 28 2010 Published by under Glenn Beck, Obama

If you missed the fuss on Monday (04.26.10) Glenn Beck kicked up about Obama’s $10T footsie with G.Sachs which started literally the day he became a Senator in 2006 and led all the way to an Oval Office meeting not three weeks ago, see details here. What follows is the best & most prestigious article yet on what may bring down a President. Investors Business Daily‘s trail of corruption…Unexpurgated.


 Investor’s Business Daily 
April 28, 2010 
The $10 Trillion Climate Fraud
Cap-And-Trade: While senators froth over Goldman Sachs and derivatives, a climate trading scheme being run out of the Chicago Climate Exchange would make Bernie Madoff blush. Its trail leads to the White House.

Lost in the recent headlines was Al Gore’s appearance Monday in Denver at the annual meeting of the Council of Foundations, an association of the nation’s philanthropic leaders.

“Time’s running out (on climate change),” Gore told them. “We have to get our act together. You have a unique role in getting our act together.”

Gore was right that foundations will play a key role in keeping the climate scam alive as evidence of outright climate fraud grows, just as they were critical in the beginning when the Joyce Foundation in 2000 and 2001 provided the seed money to start the Chicago Climate Exchange. It started trading in 2003, and what it trades is, essentially, air. More specifically perhaps, hot air.

The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) advertises itself as “North America’s only cap-and-trade system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide.” Barack Obama served on the board of the Joyce Foundation from 1994 to 2002 when the CCX startup grants were issued. As president, pushing cap-and-trade is one of his highest priorities. Now isn’t that special?

Few Americans have heard of either entity. The Joyce Foundation was originally the financial nest egg of a widow whose family had made millions in the now out-of-favor lumber industry.

After her death, the foundation was run by philanthropists who increasingly dedicated their giving to liberal causes, including gun control, environmentalism and school changes.

Currently, CCX members agree to a voluntary but legally binding agreement to regulate greenhouse gases.

The CCX provides the mechanism in trading the very pollution permits and carbon offsets the administration’s cap-and-trade proposals would impose by government mandate.

Thanks to Fox News’ Glenn Beck, we have learned a lot about CCX, not the least of which is that its founder, Richard Sandor, says he knew Obama well back in the day when the Joyce Foundation awarded money to the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, where Sandor was a research professor.

Sandor estimates that climate trading could be “a $10 trillion dollar market.” It could very well be, if cap-and-trade measures like Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Boxer are signed into law, making energy prices skyrocket, and as companies buy and sell permits to emit those six “greenhouse” gases.

So lucrative does this market appear, it attracted the attention of London-based Generation Investment Management, which purchased a stake in CCX and is now the fifth-largest shareholder.

As we noted last year, Gore is co-founder of Generation Investment Management, which sells carbon offsets of dubious value that let rich polluters continue to pollute with a clear conscience.

Other founders include former Goldman Sachs partner David Blood, as well as Mark Ferguson and Peter Harris, also of Goldman Sachs. In 2006, CCX received a big boost when another investor bought a 10% stake on the prospect of making a great deal of money for itself. That investor was Goldman Sachs, now under the gun for selling financial instruments it knew were doomed to fail.

The actual mechanism for trading on the exchange was purchased and patented by none other than Franklin Raines, who was CEO of Fannie Mae at the time.

Raines profited handsomely to the tune of some $90 million by buying and bundling bad mortgages that led to the collapse of the American economy. His interest in climate trading is curious until one realizes cap-and-trade would make housing costlier as well.

Amazingly, none of these facts came up at Senate hearings on Goldman Sachs’ activities, which may be nothing more than Ross Perot’s famous “gorilla dust,” meant to distract us from the real issues.

The climate trading scheme being stitched together here will do more damage than Goldman Sachs, AIG and Fannie Mae combined. But it will bring power and money to its architects.


Link to original site of article at IBD is here.

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Woodward & Bernstein… and Beck!

Apr 27 2010 Published by under Glenn Beck, Impeach Obama

What Glenn Beck revealed tonight will end Barry’s presidency. If it doesn’t, it means the fourth estate has died, and thus, the Republic has died. WOW.  Transcript below from tonight’s show.


Why Goldman Is Willing to Take the Heat
Monday , April 26, 2010

By Glenn Beck

Faith, hope and charity: We used to seek God’s blessings on the country, we used to pursue maximum freedom to solve problems and we’d rely on one another in times of need.

Now we’re being pushed towards what progressives have always found hope in: Dependency on regulations and administrations. Average Americans find that approach to be red tape. Our Founding Fathers found it to be slavery.

So it kind shocks me when there’s no outcry to news stories like this one reported in the Financial Times over the weekend: The “U.S. is preparing to pivot from domestic regulatory reform to push for a tough new international capital regime.”

Excuse me?

We’re talking about the foundation of international financial regulations and global governing. It’s a trial balloon being floated out there and I guess it was a success because the response was complete and total silence.

Is it just me who thinks this is a bad idea? Am I alone? I guess so, because even Republicans are OK with this one. How could that happen? Easy: It’s those evil, greedy Sith lord Wall Street executives! Like the ones at Goldman Sachs, who are appearing before the almighty Senate Tuesday to get grilled by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (sounds scary) about their so-called attempts to manipulate and profit off the crash of the housing market.

They’ll get chewed out and made an example of by people like Chris Dodd, who joined in the chorus of Goldman haters on “Meet the Press” on Sunday:

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS)

SEN. CHRIS DODD, D-CONN.: Here we are, 17 months after someone broke into our house in effect and robbed us… and we still haven’t changed the locks on the doors.

LARRY SUMMERS, WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC ADVISER: These off-balance sheet, nontransparent vehicles with what people call implicit guarantees, invite these kinds of problems.

SEN. RICHARD SHELBY, R-ALA.: We have to end once and for all the casino atmosphere on Wall Street, where they’re gambling, basically, on synthetic ideas and so forth — with somebody else’s money.

(END VIDEO CLIPS)

You’re right, Chris: You have to change those locks. But the other thing to make sure of is that the people you are calling to change the locks aren’t the same ones who were involved with the robbery in the first place.

Yes, Dodd and his buddies will chew out Goldman, but if they are the root of all evil, why do these people all still work in the administration?

• William C. Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; was a partner and managing director at Goldman

• Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; spent 18 years at Goldman

• Mark Patterson, chief of staff to Tim Geithner; former Goldman lobbyist

• Philip Murphy; nominated for ambassador to Germany; former Goldman executive

• Diana Farrell; deputy director of the National Economic Council; formerly with Goldman

• Emil Michael; White House fellow; former investment banker with Goldman

There’s just a few. And if Goldman really are the bad guys, we have bigger problems than just regulation, because we have to talk about global warming as well.

I got a tip from a watchdog — and by the way, if you are new to the program and don’t know what a watchdog is, that’s you. We’ve got millions of watchdogs e-mailing in tips and stories big and small and we welcome every single one of them. We get to as many as we can and even report on some of them, like this one about the Chicago Climate Exchange.

In case you didn’t know the Chicago Climate Exchange existed — it does and it started trading in 2003. It’s billed as: “North America’s only cap-and-trade system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide.” Members agree to a voluntary but legally binding agreement to “meet annual Green House Gas emission reduction targets.”

What’s cap-and-trade? A scheme designed to transfer wealth from the companies that have to the companies that have not through the regulation of invisible gases. Remember, it was ENRON who lobbied heavily for this type of system, because they knew how to swindle a profit out of it.

Environmentalists like Obama want this system because it will make prices skyrocket and people will be forced to use less energy. But I don’t want to put words in his mouth, I’ll let him say it:

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

THEN-PRESIDENTIAL CANIDATE BARACK OBAMA: Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

Got it? So the main beneficiaries will be big corporations and proponents of the redistribution of wealth. You are the loser here because you pay more for energy. But you can feel good because you saved the planet.

Uh-huh.

Not to mention, other places — like Europe — who have tried to implement green initiatives (like Spain) and then base markets on it are suffering the consequences. Because, as Time unwittingly described the creation of Chicago Climate Exchange, it “creates something out of nothing.” There is no value behind the market; it’s like Pets.com except now its solar panels.

So who would want to create something like this?

In 2000 and 2001, Chicago Climate Exchange received start-up grants from the Joyce Foundation. The Joyce Foundation is like the George Soros’ TIDES Foundation. In fact, it’s actually bigger than TIDES and even funds TIDES. Think of it as a place where uber-rich and powerful liberals like to dump their money into, so the cash can be spread around to their pet projects without a direct link.

The Joyce Foundation supports such luminaries as John Ayers (William Ayers’ brother).

There was one influential member on the board of the Joyce Foundation at the time the Chicago Climate Exchange got its seed money; someone instrumental in steering the funds towards the creation of the Chicago Climate Exchange. They were on the board from 1994-2002. The founder of the Chicago Climate Exchange, Richard Sandor, said that he “knew (this person) well,” which is perhaps how the money was awarded to the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where Sandor was a research professor. I’ll get back to that person in a minute.

Sandor saw big things in a climate exchange market. How big?

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BLOOMBERG REPORTER: So how big do you think this market could be?

RICHARD SANDOR, CHICAGO CLIMATE EXCHANGE: I think it’s a $10 trillion a year market.

REPORTER: Say that again?

SANDOR: $10 trillion a year.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

A $10 trillion a year market? That’s a lot to go around. In comparison, the value of U.S. company shares on major U.S. and foreign stock exchanges equities market was $15 trillion in 2009. There’s a lot of money riding on this climate legislation. But remember: It’s all about saving the Earth.

London-based Generation Investment Management sees the earning potential as well. That’s why they purchased a stake in Chicago Climate Exchange and are the fifth largest shareholder. The cofounder of the London-based firm? Former Vice President Al Gore. I say cofounder because some of the other founders include David Blood (former Goldman executive), Mark Ferguson (Goldman) and Peter Harris (Goldman).

In 2006, the Chicago Climate Exchange got a nice boost of confidence when an investor stepped to the plate and ponied up to purchase 10 percent of the combined company. Cofounder of the Chicago Exchange said the investment was big and welcome news. The investor? Goldman Sachs.

Oh and I almost forgot: The person at the beginning of it all? The one on the board of the Joyce Foundation that secured the initial funding for this project? Barack Obama.

This is so weird. It’s almost like those our government says are responsible for the financial collapse are the ones directly involved in the “solutions.” So much for “changing the locks,” Chris.

OK, now let’s look at this. What you have is a structure. This is the building: the Exchange. You’ve got the structure, all the players.

So what are we missing? Well, we’re missing the bill and the technology to make it happen; the machinery to make it happen.

You are trading air; it’s hard to keep track of air. The good news is, the bill is being worked on by Republicans and Democrats. That’s cap-and-trade.

The machinery, the device? A patent for such a device was worked on by CO2e.com CEO Carlton Bartels. Shortly after he filed for the patent on his system to trade residential carbon credits, he was killed in the 9/11 attacks. Bartels wife then shopped the idea around and was able to find a buyer. The buyer ended up being a guy who wasn’t really a good guy, he committed massive accounting fraud and manipulated earnings in his company in order to make huge bonuses.

That person was Franklin Raines, who just happened to be the CEO of Fannie Mae at the time. The patent was eventually approved by the U.S. Patent and Trade Office on Nov. 7, 2006 — coincidentally the day after Democrats took control of Congress. Thanks to Barbara Hollingsworth of the Washington Examiner for pointing this out to us.

So now, Fannie Mae, who is congressionally mandated to “make housing more affordable,” is poised to reap billions on a system that has nothing to do with housing except for that it would make housing costs go up.

That’s great.

Remember when Fannie purchased risky mortgages from banks, bundled them together and sold to investors as mortgage-backed securities? And then the housing market was absolutely destroyed? Well, former Fannie VP Scott Lesmes was responsible for that bundling.

Well, here’s the good news: Not only will this new carbon trading “system” try the exact same bundling method (except with air); they are using the exact same guy: Scott Lesmes.

But, please, don’t worry. The only ones involved in this are the corrupt Franklin Raines, Mr. redistribution of wealth Barack Obama, and all the people who the House and Senate are currently saying are the bad guys. Other than that, this should work out great.

It’s almost like Goldman is willing to take a little heat now, in order to get a little piece of the $10 trillion green pie later. I challenge the media: Will anyone pick this story up? Will anyone question this and the timing of it all?

All of a sudden illegal immigration has leap-frogged global warming? Is it because Goldman has to take hits to get the global government structure done? And then they get the payoff? Or will you continue to say oh, he’s crazy and not talk about the facts.

— Watch “Glenn Beck” weekdays at 5 p.m. ET on Fox News Channel

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"Slaughter" Then & Now

Mar 19 2010 Published by under Ariana Huffington, Glenn Beck

Remember a few months ago when Zsa-Zsa…er…. Ariana Huffington did what appears to be endemic at MSNBC–twist, distort, and obfuscate the facts to make some sort of ridiculous point–this time over Glenn Beck’s use of the word “slaughter“? These people are such soulless gasbags that if someone said “Hitler was a vegetarian” they would deem (pardon the timely pun of “deem”) the utterer to be a Nazi sympathizer. (Hitler was a vegetarian. And by all accounts was faithful to Eva Braun… Those are facts. Doesn’t change the other horrible, evil, inhuman, inexcusable, utterly despicable facts of his very existence, but the fidelity and vegetarianism are true.)

Well, Glenn has rightly been all over the anarchy taking place down in DC this weekend with the bloodless coup about to give us Cuban healthcare via the “Slaughter Rule.”

Some men are born to greatness, other just step in it! Glenn… you have done both on a gargantuan, American, Patriotic scale!

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P.3. Big-Fat-Dum-Dummy-Racist-Paranoid-Glenn Beck Talking About…. (gasp!) HISTORY!

Mar 19 2010 Published by under Glenn Beck

This was one of those shows when Beck musta had an extra Diet Coke and too many M&M’s… He was on a tear… In a GOOD way. One of those shows where he packs all kinds of stuff he has previously lingered over into clip after clip and just hammers his point home.

Glenn Beck: What Changed Dennis Kucinich’s Mind? March 18, 2010 – 2:33 ET


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Wednesday, for the first time ever, people actually cared about something Dennis Kucinich said or did. Actually, I take that back: This is the second time. The first time was when he was mayor of Cleveland and the citizens there were like what are you doing? They cared then.
But earlier on Wednesday, Kucinich announced his decision on Obama’s health care plan. He had been against it — a firm no — because the plan did not contain a single-payer system. Kucinich is a progressive and he’s out in the open. Here’s what he had been saying about the plan:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS)
REP. DENNIS KUCINICH, D-OHIO: Anytime I can support the president, I’d like to. I just — except on this bill, I signed a commitment with 77 other members of Congress, saying that if there was not robust public option in the health care bill, that was presented to the House, I wouldn’t vote for it. I kept my word.
If you don’t have a public option, the insurance companies have a license to just steal money from people.
I wish that they brought that public option back — I supported it in committee. And absent of a robust public option, I don’t know what there is for my constituents.
(END VIDEO CLIPS)
Got that? He believes there is absolutely no reason to vote for this bill without the public option. It would take an Earth-shattering, chill-you-to-the-bone moment to change his mind. Something like this experience:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
TIM RUSSERT, MODERATOR: Did you see a UFO?
KUCINICH: Uh, I did. And the rest of the account — it was an unidentified flying object, OK?
(END VIDEO CLIP)
Maybe that’s why President Obama decided to do more than call Dennis Kucinich to change his mind on health care. He invited him aboard Air Force One to chat about it. Maybe it was an abduction. Whatever it was Congressman Kucinich left Air Force One a different man than when he boarded.
Here’s Dennis Kucinich on Wednesday:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
KUCINICH: I’ve decided to cast a vote in favor of the legislation.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
Wait, I thought there was nothing in it for his constituents? So why would he change? There are three possible answers:
• He was told if he votes for health care, they’ll tell him what’s in Area 51
• They opened the cargo door of Air Force One mid-flight and “negotiated”
• The president assured him this was just a starting point; that we’d get to universal health care eventually.
I know, right now some bloggers are saying, Oh, Glenn that’s crazy. President Obama’s plan doesn’t have a public option, you right-wing religious zealot, Jesus-hating fear monger.
OK, then how do you explain this:
(BEGIN AUDIO CLIPS)
THEN-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA: It is my belief that not just politically but also economically, it’s better for us to start getting a system in place — a universal health care system signed into law by the end of my first term as president and build off that system to further — to make it more rational — by the way, Canada did not start off immediately with a single-payer system. They had a similar transition step.
Transitioning a system is a very difficult and costly and lengthy enterprise. It’s not like you could turn on a switch and you go from one system to another.
(END AUDIO CLIPS)
That sounds an awful lot like the end goal is government-run health care. As the president said, it’s what they did in Canada. I’m not a betting man, but I would be willing to wager that the conversation aboard Air Force One sounded very similar to that last sound clip of Obama: Don’t worry, Dennis. We will get there.
It’s the only explanation that makes any sense and it’s right in line with what many powerful progressives (including Obama) are preaching: Just get your foot in the door and we’ll build from there. It’s their own words.
Here’s audio from the George Soros’ Tides Foundation:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JACOB HACKER: Someone once said to me this is a Trojan horse for single payer. And I said, well it’s not a Trojan horse, right? It’s just right there! I’m telling you: We’re going to get there — over time, slowly.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
And from Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REP. JAN SCHAKOWSKY, D-ILL.: And next to me was a guy from the insurance company who then argued against the public health insurance option, saying it wouldn’t let private insurance compete. That a public option will put the private insurance industry out of business and lead to single-payer.
(APPLAUSE)
My single-payer friends, he was right. The man was right.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
And Tom Harkin:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SEN. TOM HARKIN, D-IOWA: As I said before, this bill is not complete. I’ve used the analogy of a starter home in which we can add additions and enhancements as we go into the future. But like every right that we’ve ever passed the American people, we revisit it later on to enhance and build on those rights and we will do that here surely.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
I mean, how many examples, America, do you need to realize that it doesn’t matter what passes, it’s just a foot in the door. As if you needed more evidence, Nancy Pelosi was quoted saying: “We won that fight and once we kick through this door, there’ll be more legislation to follow.”
Dennis, how did you miss all of this? Did you want to pass the bill the right way out in the open or something? Are you the only ethical Marxist around? Did you not read Saul Alinsky: The ends justify the means?
Seventy-three percent of Americans want Congress to scrap the bill and start over. America, I want you to understand what this bill is in no uncertain terms:
• This will be, in the end a Canadian-style single-payer health care system. If anyone thinks that’s good, count the number of hospitals on this side of the border that cater to Canadians. Ask Canadian politician Danny Williams who came over here for surgery because they didn’t have any specialists
Speaking of that:
• According to the New England Journal of Medicine, if this bill is passed nearly one third of physicians would quit practicing medicine
• This is about power and money. The unions along with government will control your health care along with government, enforced through the IRS
• You are going to pay for this without any benefits until 2014
Do you think that the government is actually going to take your money and put in a safe for two to four years and not touch it? That’s the only reason why the bill doesn’t cost more, because you don’t get any benefits for four years — you’re paying in, with nothing in return.
Let me show you a picture: These are the actual lock boxes. They just opened them to start cashing in the IOUs. There is no money in them. But between now and 2014 this money will be spent on everything else but health care. By that time the government will control every aspect of it.
This is why America doesn’t want this bill. But that doesn’t mean we don’t want reform. There are millions who want health care reform. And let me be clear: I am one of them. But a public option — especially when it’s crammed down America’s throat in the cover of darkness — a Trojan horse that’s not really a Trojan horse — is not the right kind of reform.
There are easy ways to actually make the current system — which, let me remind everyone, is the best system in the world bar none — better. Did you know that the top five U.S. hospitals conduct more clinical tests than the entire country of Canada or Sweden or Great Britain for the entire year? There’s a reason world leaders and millions of others come here for health care.
Our system is better. But there are easy ways to make it even more superior to the utopian Canada or U.K. system (where 22-year-old hospital patients are dying of thirst).
Start with tort reform. They say they have it in the bill, but that is a Trojan horse as well. It actually punishes states that have already implemented liability reform. So, if you already have caps on liabilities, you are not eligible for funding grants.
Allow insurance across state lines. Instead of doing that, this bill caps premiums and allows any pre-existing condition to be covered. The guy next to me said that’d put the private insurers out of business — well, to quote Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky: He was right!
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P.2. Big-Fat-Dum-Dummy-Racist-Paranoid-Glenn Beck Talking About…. (gasp!) HISTORY!

Mar 19 2010 Published by under Glenn Beck

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Glenn Beck: Brett Baier grills Obama on healthcare

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March 18, 2010 – 13:09 ET
GLENN: Last night Bret Baier said, if this is so important, I mean, why do you have to bribe people and arm twist? The answer, I think, spoke volumes.
BAIER: You know, we asked our viewers to e-mail in suggested questions. More than 18,000 people took time to e-mail us questions and these are regular people from all over the country. Lee Johnson from Spring Valley, California: If the bill is so good for all of us, why all the intimidation, arm twisting, seedy deals, and parliamentary trickery necessary to pass a bill when you have an overwhelming majority in both houses and the presidency? Sandy Moody in Chesterfield, Missouri: If the healthcare bill is so wonderful, why do you have to bribe Congress to pass it?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Bret, I get 30,000 letters or e-mails a day.
BAIER: I know you do.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: And I could read the exact same –
BAIER: But these are real people. It’s not just Washington punditry.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Listen. I’ve got exactly the same e-mails that I could show you that talk about why haven’t we done something to make sure that I, a small business person, am getting as good of a deal as members of Congress are getting and don’t have my insurance rates jacked up 40%. Why is it　–
GLENN: Stop it. Stop it. Do you notice what he’s done here? He didn’t say, what bribery?
PAT: No.
GLENN: He didn’t say what arm twisting? This is Saul Alinsky. Now, when it comes to process, I don’t care about process, this process I do because it speaks volumes about us and volumes about what’s happening in Washington. When we say, oh, well, the process doesn’t matter, yes, it does! You can judge a tree by its fruit and the fruit is bribery and corruption, so you know if it’s a good tree or a bad tree.
Now, with this being said, I implore you to reach out to your friends and make sure your message is not about politics. I said to you before that our country, really the world as we know it, okay, the economy, global economy as we know it is sinking. It is the Titanic and it is going to go down. I hope I’m wrong, but the bailout looks like it has failed in Greece. That was the story from Bloomberg this morning. There’s another story out today that Spain is in real trouble and the headline was: As Goes Spain, So Goes the World. . I don’t know if it’s going to be Spain or Greece or California or what it’s going to be, but at some point the dominoes are going to fall and we are all tied together to stop nuclear war. That’s why this　– that’s why this is so bad, because people who are far smarter than you and me, without us knowing about it, tied the global economies together because that’s the only way to stop a world war. They did it in the 1940′s and 50′s and 60′s and they announced it in Tragedy and Hope, which is a book from, I think, 1962. Carroll Quigley, the guy, he was a scholar at Harvard and George Washington university. He’s the guy responsible for getting Bill Clinton in as a Rhodes Scholar. He’s been　– he was an advisor for almost every President known to man and he said, I was part of it that tied it together. And the tragedy was war. The hope was we’re not going to have a global war anymore. Why? Because we’ve tied all of our economies together so people know if there is a global war, it will sink the entire world, the entire global economy will collapse. So, it doesn’t matter where it starts. It doesn’t matter who caused it. What matters is what then? It doesn’t matter about healthcare. I mean, it does because I believe, as I have told you before, healthcare　– this isn’t about the healthcare issue. It never has been. It is about control and power. It is about a machine that they will turn on. It is a cage.
There is a story today in the paper about moody’s. It’s been floating around　– it was on the front page of the New York Times yesterday or the day before. Even I didn’t catch this one line. One of my researchers said, Glenn, how come you haven’t mentioned this? And I said read it to me again. What? Moody’s is the ratings service. Now, remember, you’ve got to take moody’s with a grain of salt because it’s a quasi Government organization, but moody’s is the one that rates credit. So, in other words, the banking credit, country wide’s credit, everybody. The ratings service to say who’s got good credit, who doesn’t. The same kind of service that got us into this mess in the first place because they said, Oh, yeah, these CEO’s, they’re good. So, they’re not. Do you remember when the crash first started to happen and they were, like, why were these things rated so highly? Well, because people were in bed with each other. The banks were in bed with the rating service. So, when they would come out and evaluate the value of your house, the bank put pressure on them, keep that up, keep it high, et cetera, et cetera. Well, that’s what’s happened with moody’s now. The pressure is on to keep the American credit rating high because we can’t have our credit downgraded. Why? How does this affect you? Because if they downgrade our credit, it works just like your credit card. If you have bad credit, your interest rates go up. If the we have bad credit, our interest rates on our debt will go so high, it will consume everything. You won’t be able to have healthcare. You won’t be able to have roads. You won’t be able to have strong defense because we have to pay the interest rate. What happened when everybody’s rate on an adjustable mortgage went up? People lost their house. That’s what is in　– on our horizon for our country now, but here’s the line that was in that article and I’ve been warning against these two things for how many years? One, we will lose our credit rating if we don’t turn around; Two, there is trouble on the horizon. Moody’s, in the same article, we　– the United States has made too many critical moves in the last year. They’re making things worse. The situation is worse, not just because of the moves but because the worst is not behind us. It’s still ahead of us, and there is a real substantial risk of the United States losing its credit rating. First fact. The second one I saw today. Because the world is so unstable, what is ahead may loosen the bonds of society.
Now, what the heck does that even mean? It will loosen the bonds of societal cohesion. What that means is civil unrest. You are seeing it already in Europe. Jerry Brown yesterday said, Now it’s the union’s turn to fight, so we don’t have to. There is going to be societal unrest, maybe, hopefully, God help us, not in America, because if there is societal unrest at this point, we are not prepared as a people. We are going to head for a French revolution, not an American revolution. That one ended in the guillotines. That one ended horribly, because the people had a misunderstanding of what they were fighting for and God did not play the role. It was a misinterpreted God. We are not ready, do not　– there is a story today out of Alaska from a group that says, Hey, I know, you know, we’ve got a long way to go, but arms are still on the table. An armed assault or an armed revolution is still on the table. It must be taken off the table. It must be taken off the table or things will end like the French revolution, which ended in Napoleon.
So, what I’m coming to you today with is you’re not　– I don’t think　– I’m not and I just told my staff today, I don’t care about ratings. I don’t care about money. I’ve got to keep the show on the air so we all are employed, but I have been saying for a long time there are many things that I believe that I shall never say but I shall never say the things that I do not believe. I am telling you today something that I have not said before but I have believed.
Time runs short. Now is the time that you shore yourself up and you stand for peace. Faith, hope, and charity. You must be the guardian of your own freedom. You must be the guardian of your own family. You must　– if you have been standing on the sidelines in any way, shape, or form, if you’ve been listening every day and saying, Okay, well, I　– you must get off of the sidelines and you must stand peacefully, even if it is just in your own home. You must begin to think the unthinkable. You must think out of the box. You must, you must look　– prepare for the worst and hope for the best. If you are listening to the sound of my voice today, you are listening for a reason. You are here for a reason, and there’s an article today in the paper about this is — what’s about to happen to us is equivalent to Pearl Harbor. It is, but it’s not the event of healthcare that Pearl Harbor　– it wasn’t just December 7th. It is the years after that changed the world. Be prepared to be a peacemaker.

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P.1. Big-Fat-Dum-Dummy-Racist-Paranoid-Glenn Beck Talking About…. (gasp!) HISTORY!

Mar 19 2010 Published by under Glenn Beck


Health Care Battle Part of Larger War

March 19, 2010 – 1:23 ET

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Throughout the course of American history there have been, periodically, events so dramatic, so huge that they were completely life altering; they changed the way people went about their day:
• When the Founders pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor
• When the Framers signed the Constitution
• The Civil War
• Pearl Harbor
• September 11, 2001
All of these events didn’t just happen to the immediate people involved. They grabbed each and every citizen at his core and forced people to reevaluate who they were and what they believed, before moving forward again.
Pearl Harbor was a hugely important day, but that wasn’t the end of the story. America had a choice to make. And as everyone knows, the decisions that followed over the next few years after that deadly December 7 attack radically changed America’s course.
That is what’s coming.
If you think I’m talking about the health care bill, you couldn’t be more wrong. The health care bill is merely a battle (and a huge battle; it may be Normandy) but it’s part of a bigger war. And the war is the fundamental transformation or restoration of this country. That’s the end game.
While everyone will focus on the political games surrounding the health care bill — the “Slaughter rule”; the secrecy; the arm twisting; the bribes; the lies — and they should address those things, there is something much bigger — much bigger than Obama or Bush or Clinton. We’ve been off track for decades and it’s finally catching up with us.
How have we allowed our system to make this type of bill a possibility? Americans need to ask that question and find the answers, because even if this health care bill is stopped there will eventually be another massive corrupt bill and another and another
We have to fix the entire system. It’s broken.
I read a report today that the Greece bailout deal is falling apart. Their markets tanked on the news. I read another report that said if Spain goes into default, the whole world goes into default. There was a report that barely got any news: Moody’s saying that America may lose its Triple-A rating. But there was a small line at the end of the article that got even less attention — I even missed this one the first time through. This is incredible. Have you heard anyone out there focusing on this?Moody’s said for America to stay a Triple-A rated country, it would require “fiscal adjustments of a magnitude that, in some cases, will test social cohesion.”
Let me translate: “fiscal adjustments” — you are going to less, not more; “social cohesion” — Greece! They believe society may experience some sort of breakdown. But the fiscal adjustments must be made.
During TARP discussions, Congressman Brad Sherman said members were told if they didn’t pass TARP, there would be martial law. Congressman Paul E. Kanjorski was told that without the Fed intervention of an electronic bank run, world economic collapse would have happened within 24 hours. I’d like to know: What are they being told about health care today?
Whether health care is stopped or not, world finance as we know it is going to reset. And the president knows it.
This bill is the centerpiece of progressive structure. Remember, this isn’t just health care. It’s a grab of all education dollars as well. This is a long-term strategy: Someone has to be standing when that evil capitalism finally fails us.
This is exactly what happened in the Soviet Union. The leaders there saw the writing on the wall. If you want the full story, read Stephen F. Cohen’s “Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives.” If you don’t have time, google this: the Belavezha Accords.
They knew tough times and collapse were ahead, so they prepared for it by creating a structure. But in the Soviet Union, the opposite happened: They took a step toward freedom. While we are heading the other way: Dependency on big government. Because, as I mentioned, they will tell you that the free market failed us: People don’t have jobs. They will say: Come, we’ll make it all better.
This is a turning point for America. We are standing at a crossroads. We have to decide who we want to be when we come out on the other side.
I’m going to tell you a story. You tell me if it’s unreasonable to draw these conclusions:
The 121 Walgreen stores in Washington state won’t take any new Medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a “money-losing proposition.” If they say that, what does the government do to Walgreens? If other chains do the same thing, then the government has a choice: Do they let them continue to turn away Medicaid patients or do they force them, through regulation, to accept Medicaid patients?
Well, we already know the answer to that one because we’ve seen it: They’ll force them. And since it’s a losing money proposition, the government will soon be faced with another choice: Do we let them fail or do we bail them out and nationalize the industry?
Well, we already know the answer to that one because we’ve already seen it: They will nationalize it. It’s a cascade effect and it will happen in every industry that’s deemed “too big to fail.”
Take a look at the tree of liberty. Here is the side that everyone is paying attention to now:
• Spending
• Special interests
• Corruption
• Bribery
But the other side is what we need to focus more on; these are the things that got us here:
• Lies
• Arrogance
• Greed
• Ego
All of those things lead to the breakdown of personal integrity, which leads to the breakdown of the family. And it allows corruption into our lives. It’s what gives us Bernie Madoff.
Again, it’s important to focus on the political side of the tree; it’s important. Bret Baier did an amazing job doing just that last night, as he grilled the president and held his feet to the fire. But we’ll be endlessly fighting the health care battle and the cap-and-trade battle and the green jobs battle and the tax battle until we fix the system.
How do you do it? Listen to this quote on George Washington from William H. Wilbur, author of “The Making of George Washington”:
“Greatness of moral character, forthright honesty, quiet modesty, thoughtful consideration for others, thoroughness, kindness, and generosity. During the American Revolution, and for more than 50 years thereafter, young Americans were inspired to attain these qualities by the vivid recollections of men who had served with George Washington.”
Each and every day you must remind yourself of three words: faith, hope and charity. They are seeds on the liberty tree. And these three things have been perverted over several decades.
We must plant them again.
— Watch Glenn Beck weekdays at 5p & 2a ET on Fox News Channel

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Wicked Smaht Boston Radio Host Calls for IMPEACHMENT

Mar 18 2010 Published by under 96.9, Glenn Beck, Impeach Obama, Jay Severin

Jay Severin is many things, good and bad (as are we all), but his analysis of all things political is absolutely, positively, without even a close competitor by a thousand miles, the most prescient, accurate and insightful on radio or any other medium, print or broadcast. RAZOR FRIGGIN’ SHARP. (He is consistently RIGHT about stuff, days, weeks, even YEARS ahead of others when they are just awakening from their stupor.  VERY much like Glenn Beck.  You can call them every name in the book all day long but it doesn’t make them any less right, over and over and over again, year after year, which is what hacks off liberals so bad, I’m sure!)

Below is the unexpurgated text of his latest blog post – about Impeachment of Obama based on the activities surrounding health care. I recommend listening to his first half hour every day, starting at 2pm eastern. You will learn more in those 30 minutes daily than in all other hours from all other sources combined. It’s not even close.

http://www.969bostontalks.com


Procedural Rules – Posted by Jay Severin

Posted 3/18/2010 12:32:00 PM

Quite chilling how monumental – and wicked – instants of history can occur so quickly and with such incredible nonchalance.
As in the case of Barack Hussein Obama, who just happens to be the President of the United States, who yesterday breezily declared he “doesn’t pay much attention to procedural rules”.
Oh, Barrack, you are so chill!
Who needs all those old fashioned (not to mention inconvenient) laws, anyway, right dude?
Okay. So it is time for somebody to use the “I” word, as in Impeachment.
I will.
Impeachment of a President (an indictment, not removal form office, which is “Recall”) may occur when he or she is found guilty of the commission of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Is not openly denouncing and violating the essential oath of his office – which is exactly Obama has done – Impeachable on its face?
Did Obama not swear to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution (you know, one of those old “rules” you don’t pay attention to)?
Obama has violated his sacred oath.
He deserves Impeachment, and we deserve to draw this line, wage this honorable fight.
We are, with current Congressional composition, unlikely to fashion actual Impeachment; that is for after the coming election day.
But, as we certainly know (see Scott Brown) we can make a great deal of noise, and trouble for the other side. We just need to get “Impeachment” in the wind, in the media, in the conversation.
We need to verify to them, to our children, to ourselves that we are serious about the President noit taking seriously his oath of office.
We can do that, now.
And I now believe we must do that, now.
Impeachment, anyone?

Posted By: Jay Severin   

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Sanctimony on OVERDRIVE… and WRONG

Mar 17 2010 Published by under Glenn Beck, Healthcare, Larry O'Donnel, Michelle Malkin, MSNBC, Obamacare, Rush Limbaugh


I try to do my due diligence and watch “the other side” to see what they are saying in the hope that I might actually learn something or at least be better able to focus my side of the debate, but I never learn anything, and usually end up drowning in the sewage of emotion they think is reason. I literally had to change the channel last night when Crazy Larry was doing this piece it was so over the top wrong. The sanctimony needle was pinning way to the right and damn near burst the glass… Thank GOD Michelle Malkin was able to stomach it to write what needed writing here…

Doing the health care anecdote-vetting the Left won’t do

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 16, 2010 11:27 PM
Here is Larry Scary O’Donnell — who can usually be seen frothing at the mouth with bulging neck veins as he melts down on MSNBC — sloooowly reading a teleprompter as he chastises me, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck for “attacking” 11-year-old Marcelas Owens. Nice to see your Valium is working Larry:

As usual, he gets basic facts wrong — like accusing Rush and me of being “desperate to catch up” with Beck. Actually, he’s got the timeline upside-down, as the enraged Media Matters chronology correctly lays out here.
My syndicated column raising inconvenient questions about Owens’ case appeared was published on March 10 and my follow-up post on Harry Reid hiding behind Owens was published on March 12.
Rush addressed the Democrat exploitation of Owens on March 12.
Beck then discussed the case on March 15.
Also wrong: At 3:28, O’Donnell falsely claims I called the parents of S-CHIP poster child Graeme Frost “spoiled brats” — a misattribution which he alsoregurgitated from Media Matters.
Also moronic: At 6:45 in the video, O’Donnell says conservatives can’t find a single person on Medicaid or Medicare who is unhappy with his/her coverage. Ahem, meet NYTimes columnist Nick Kristof’s favorite health care poster boy, John Brodniak.
Facts, schmacts.
At 7:25 in the video, liberal columnist Chris Hayes of the Nation decries the tendency of conservative pundits to “raise questions and point out errors.” God forbid we do that. Doing the health care anecdote-vetting the Left won’t do? FASCISTS!!!
O’Donnell dubs our analyses of Owens and his left-wing activist grandmother’s claims “childish attacks.” But it’s immature demagogues like O’Donnell who refuse to grow up. I repeat what I said about the NYTimes’ shoddy, gullible, unquestioning coverage of the story four days ago:
The Times fails to mention that Owens’ grandmother and family have been longtime activists for the left-wing, single-payer advocates of the Washington Community Action Network or that the boy and his grandmother traveled to Washington with sponsorship from the Astroturf lobbyists of the Health Care for America Now outfit, which characterized Marcelas as an “insurance abuse survivor.”
Never mind that there is not a shred of evidence that any health insurer ever “abused” Marcelas. Never mind that the family has made no claim that Marcelas himself has survived without insurance (in Washington state, low-income children have been covered either through Medicaid, SCHIP, or the SCHIP expansion program Apple Health for Kids). Newsbusters is also covering the MSM’s soft-shoe coverage of the Democrats’ use of the Owens’ kiddie shield here, here, and here.
The usual hyperventilating from the Left — horrible conservatives “targeting” poor, innocent kid! conservatives “assault” poor, innocent kid! — just proves my point. Despite President Obama’s repeated admonition that health care reform is a “complex issue that can’t be reduced to snippets,” it’s exactly what Reid, Murray, Schumer, and his Owens’ grandmother propped up young Marcelas to do. Anyone who questions the narrative and absolute moral authority of the kiddie human shield is a heartless, right-wing stalker who should be vilified, if not arrested.
As always, the current ruling majority is incapable of holding an adult discussion on the costs and consequences of its plans.
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Attacks on Fox News for vetting President Obama’s Ohio poster patient, Natoma Canfield, in 3, 2, 1…
Natoma Canfield, the cancer-stricken woman who has become a centerpiece of President Obama’s push for health care reform, will not lose her home over her medical bills and will probably qualify for financial aid, a top official at the Cleveland medical center treating her told FoxNews.com.
Natoma Canfield’s battles with cancer and with insurance companies have become a centerpiece of President Obama’s campaign to pass a health care system overhaul.
Natoma Canfield, the cancer-stricken woman who has become a centerpiece of President Obama’s push for health care reform, will not lose her home over her medical bills and will probably qualify for financial aid, a top official at the Cleveland medical center treating her told FoxNews.com.
Though Canfield’s sister Connie Anderson said her sibling is afraid she’ll lose her house and Obama warned at an Ohio rally Monday that the patient is “racked with worry” about the cost of tests and treatment, she is already being screened for financial help.
Lyman Sornberger, executive director of patient financial services at the Cleveland Clinic, said “all indications” at the outset are that she will be considered for assistance.
“She may be eligible for state Medicaid … and/or she will be eligible for charity (care) of some form or type. … In my personal opinion, she will be eligible for something,” he said, adding that Canfield should not be worried about losing her home.
“Cleveland Clinic will not put a lien on her home,” he said.

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United States of… Asia?

Mar 03 2010 Published by under china, debt, deficit, Glenn Beck, japan

A few months ago, he who shall not be named (so called because the mere mention of his name drives otherwise rational people off a cliff) posited that the only way we could ever pay off our insane debts would be to sell… America itself.  A rather simplistic summation, but essentially accurate.

And now comes this secret White House memo taking 10 million acres of land against the states’ will and just as a bonus, killing free market growth.

How many times do Obama’s actions have to follow his predictions before more Americans wake up?

Read and watch below if you dare ;)


Collapsing the System

October 28, 2009 – 23:43 ET

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I’ve told you a lot of spooky things on this show and I’m hoping a lot of those things are wrong.
On Tuesday, I asked you the question: Does it matter if these people are Marxists?
Does it matter that the guy rebuilding our automotive industry has no experience and believes that the free market system doesn’t work? Or that the manufacturing “czar” said that the free market is “nonsense?” Or that we have communists and radicals serving in the administration and advising the president?
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIPS)
RON BLOOM, WHITE HOUSE MANUFACTURING ‘CZAR’: Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense…
MARK LLOYD, FCC DIVERSITY ‘CZAR’: In Venezuela, with Chavez, a really incredible revolution, a democratic revolution…
THEN-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA: I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.
VAN JONES, FORMER WHITE HOUSE GREEN JOBS ‘CZAR’: Give them the wealth! Give them the wealth!
ANITA DUNN, WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: Mao Tse-Tung and Mother Teresa, not often coupled with each another, but the two people that I turn to most…
(END VIDEO CLIPS)
Does it matter?
The answer is yes, if you believe that what makes America, America are the individual dreamers, builders and doers. Not the collective, but the individuals, the dreamers and the inventors.
From the people that brought us moving pictures the assembly line, the light bulb, the elevator, the Chia Pet, those are the individuals that made us great. And that is what is being stifled.
Now, government will tell you what to create, how to create it and what to do with it after you’ve created it. They’ll control your financing, control your education, control your health. They’ll control what you watch on television, they’ll control absolutely everything — because now, they’ll own a lot of the banks and many of the companies.
So now, not only does an inventor have to invent the thing the government says it is looking for, they’ll also make sure that you can’t go out on your own and try to create something better.
It is total control. And it is also, total insanity.
I’ve told you before about Cloward and Piven, a 1960s strategy that identified the best way to stop the Republic — the best way to subvert the Constitution and replace it with communism, Marxim or socialism — is to first financially collapse it.
Just a year ago, this stuff sounded absolutely crazy.
We’ve all worried about the debt. I want to not only show you how bad the debt is, but I also want to arm you with information, you will not accept their answer when they present a solution for what’s coming. And what’s coming is a system that is unsustainable. A system that is going to collapse. A system that quite honestly, looks a lot like what happened in Iceland.
In Iceland, all three of their McDonalds have been forced to close. Now, that may not sound like a national emergency, but neither does the swine flu. The reason they shut down is that Iceland’s currency, the krona, has devalued to the point where the McDonalds’ franchise owner could no longer afford to even import the packaging, meat and cheese to run the business.
Remember, four years ago, Iceland was a stable economy. But now, after being in a position where they were importing workers from Poland, they’ve gone to a 10 percent unemployment rate in one year. Massive debt, coupled with the currency and banking crisis, has caused Iceland’s once thriving economy to hit the skids.
Iceland’s GDP is around $20 billion; their foreign debt alone is $120 billion — six times their GDP. Would you like a hot apple pie with that debt, Reykjavik? If only their biggest problem was where to find their next Big Mac. If only that was ourbiggest problem.
Our GDP is $15 trillion. Our actual debt, as you’ve seen many times on the debt clock, is $105 trillion. Hmm, seven times our GDP.
I want to make this clear: Ours is actual debt; theirs is foreign debt. But do you know the games our government plays with the accounting books? Do you realize we have four separate books? According to David Walker, former U.S. comptroller, everybody involved would be in jail — if we didn’t own the jails.
Liberal blogs are having fun with me saying there’s more truth from Pravda. Well, let me give you a quote from Pravda last week: “It can be safely said, that the last time a great nation destroyed itself through its own hubris and economic folly was the early Soviet Union (though in the end the late Soviet Union still died by the economic hand). Now we get the opportunity to watch the Americans do the exact same thing to themselves. The most amazing thing of course, is that they are just repeating the failed mistakes of the past.”
How is it happening? Well, let me explain how the system works:
A year ago we had a problem with the banks: People took out too many bad loans and the government pressured banks to make those loans, by the way, to people who couldn’t afford them and the whole thing melted down.
So the banks didn’t have enough money to cover bad loans and we were faced with a choice: Let them fail or bail them out. Well, you know what happened: We passed the Troubled Asset Recovery Program (TARP) to help the banks cover the bad loans and fund new ones.
Now we’re hearing that the banks aren’t making loans. How is that possible? After all, we gave them all of that money.
It’s actually a good thing right now that the banks aren’t making those loans. Too much money would be flooding the system. They are not making those loans because they’re afraid that the worst is not yet behind us and they need to have that money on hand so they can keep their doors open.
But if things start to get better again, then all of that money will flood out into the system. It’s called velocity — the speed of the money coming out of banks into the economy. And for inflation to happen, you need a lot of money in the system.
We don’t really have an inflation problem right now, but back in the ’70s under Jimmy Carter, for two years we printed too much money. We added 13 percent more money to our money supply for two years. Remember how bad the inflation was? And we started down a socialist utopia with Jimmy Carter.
To stop it, what did we have to do? Fed Chairman Paul Volcker came in and, in an effort to suck all the money back to the Fed and out of the system, he had to raise interest rates.
Remember, the banks have all of this money on the sidelines right now. As soon as they release it into the system, from that time, it usually takes about two years for the money glut to cause inflation.
After printing 13 percent more money for two years, we had runaway inflation of 12 percent. So Volcker raised the interest rate to 20 percent, because whenever you borrow, let’s say, $100, you’ll then owe $20 — the Fed then takes that $20 and destroys it to get it out of the system and bring inflation back down.
So we had to have a 20 percent interest rate for a 13 percent increase in the money supply for two years. In the last year or so since Lehman Brothers failed, we have increased our money supply by 120 percent.
How high will our interest rate have to be to pull all of that money back out of the system?
The reason I bring this up is that our real debt, as I pointed out, is $105 trillion. You and I both know we can’t pay that back, so how do you pull this money back in without completely shutting down the entire economy? Can you afford a house with a 30-year interest of 35 or 40 percent? How about a car payment? How many business loans will be taken out with 25 percent interest rates?
You can’t. Everything stops. So how do you keep an economy, based on buying — not building — going when you can’t borrow money? You don’t. It’s the real reason that Chris Dodd wants a cap on credit cards today. They must have your credit cards working. They must have you spending.
Here’s what I think they’re doing: They will pay off the debt by printing enough money to pay off $105 trillion. It’ll be worthless, but we’ll give the Chinese and the rest of our debtors, their money. And those people that we’ve sold stuff to will come and take their assets.
But then what’s left to restart the country? We have to have something to back our currency. Well, what about gold? There are $200 trillion in investible assets in the world and just $800 billion in gold to back it. So you can’t go back to the gold standard; you need something to buy stuff with — we can’t barter forever.
So, we have to have money and we have to base it on something. Let’s go back to the people who taught us in the last century what we do when there’s an out-of-control money supply: the Weimar Republic in Germany. What did they do? After their currency had become so worthless that they had printed 2 trillion-mark bank notes and their economy collapsed, they dumped the mark, switched to the rentenmark and backed it with real estate — land.
Well, there’s certainly enough land and resources in America that we could back ourcurrency that way as well, but the government would have to own all the land.
Hey, good news! Between Fannie and Freddie, the federal government already owns 55 percent of the mortgages in this country. And coupled with all the federal land grabs for parks, polar bears who are crowded but endangered and all the oil we’re not drilling for or coal we’re not mining, you might be able to base a currency on all that. And what a deal for China when they come in to “help.”
I hope I’m absolutely wrong about this, I honestly do. But think about this: Who would the new “regime” responsible for this “new America” have on their side? Who would the federal government, after they’ve destroyed your future and that of your children, who would they have on their side?
You’ll say: Let us fix it; let the free market fix it. But we’ve already seen those in the government don’t believe in you or the free market. The government is going to say: Let the world fix it. They’re already saying that — and when you watch Friday’s show on global warming, you’ll see how they’re laying the groundwork for this.
Don’t fool yourself. Read history. During the American Revolution and the Civil War, we needed allies: People who would fight and supply money. Our government is making those allies: Russia, China, Venezuela. But don’t you think China would be willing to come over here to protect this government, from its people under those circumstances? For a piece of our oil, coal, mineral reserves and land? And to be part of one, big, happy global family?
You bet.
So it boils down to this: What if the dollar collapses in the next three, five, eight years? What if, this is the plan? Does it matter?
And let me ask specifically to all those who support Gitmo being closed, the Amnesty International goofballs, the protect-the-endangered-crowded-polar-bear crowd: Do you really think Russia and China will be better protectors of the planet than we have been? Will Russians cordon off 200,000 square miles of extra space for polar bear roaming or will they shoot them in the head to get a barrel of oil that used to belong to you?
I know I would. Surely, Ivan will.

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Zsa Zsa is Worried

Feb 03 2010 Published by under Glenn Beck, Obama, Olbermann

I watched the video below for one reason:  I have a friend who believes this stuff.  It’s 7 minutes of my life I’ll never get back but I did it because she’s a very smart woman and I am desperately trying to understand the source of her vitriol towards Glenn Beck.

There is NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING here – AGAIN – to back up her argument that Beck is a hypocrite, or that Ailes is “lying.”
Beck didn’t remember using the word “slaughter” then corrected the error HIMSELF on RADIO & TV.  This got Zsa Zsa all up in arms.  THIS is what Ariana Huffington (I call her Zsa Zsa because she sounds like her) hangs her hat on that somehow substantiates her argument (whatever it is) against Beck.
Ummmm… If she watched the minute leading up to the clip used below, she would have heard and seen, if she does in fact understand English, that HE IS TALKING ABOUT THE ECONOMY.
You have be indulging in the willful suspension of disbelief to believe that ANYONE would go on TV and ACTUALLY insist that the president is going to pilot a plane full of Americans into the ground but AMAZINGLY, this is what the left thinks!  This is what my good friend thinks, and I KNOW SHE KNOWS better.  
As for Ailes, I can’t explain why Fox pulled away from the President’s visit with the GOP or why they covered the GOP reply in full except to take Mr. Ailes AT HIS WORD “We’re in the ratings business.”
Ummm… What’s the lie here?  HE IS IN THE RATINGS BUSINESS.  Fox is beating all the other cable networks so bad, that the hubris that Olbermann demonstrates is, like so much of liberal thinking, inexplicable unless you are indulging in the strenuous and willful, almost OLYMPIC willful suspension of disbelief.
If you watch the entire clip of Beck’s “slaughter” rant, there is NO WAY that ANYONE who understands ENGLISH can MISUNDERSTAND IT.  NO WAY.  You really, truly, honestly, have to work up a sweat to do it.
77% of all Investor’s Business Daily’s respondents believe that Obama’s policies are anti-business.  Every economist believes that we are on an UNSUSTAINABLE PATH with our debt and deficit.  Any idiot with a calcuator can figure it out.  And if you want to believe that Beck is an idiot with a calculator FINE. What is he WRONG ABOUT.
NOT WHAT GETS YOUR PANTIES IN A BUNDLE ABOUT THE BIG BAD WORD HE USED (ohhh… Beck said “slaughter” ohhhh….) BUT WHAT IS HE WRONG ABOUT????????
DO ANY OF THESE PEOPLE WATCH HIM OR DO THEY JUST TAKE THESE RIDICULOUS CLIPS AND GET ALL HUFFY OR RIDICULOUSNESS????
I would submit to you that ALL, and I mean ALL the compaints against Beck are superficial and NOT SUBSTANTIVE.  They have yet to CORRECT ANY OF THE FACTS he has presented.  
When he ran his history of progressivism documentary NOT ONE factual error was made.  Know how I know?  Because MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, AND NBC would have been HOWLING about it.
I ask anyone who thinks he is a nut to focus like a LASER BEAM on the SUBSTANCE OF HIS ASSERTIONS and ask yourself IF HE IS WRONG.

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Obama has gone to Crazytown…

Jan 29 2010 Published by under Crazytown, Glenn Beck, Obama

After hearing the President’s SOTU, I am left to conclude that he is either:  dangerously delusional or has acheived a level of arrogance never before seen in public life…or more frightening… both.
Below is the text from Glenn Beck’s radio show the morning after the State of the Union. I heard it live and I don’t think I’ve ever heard a radio host (and I’ve been in/on/consumer of radio for 20 years…) who I thought might actually BURST through the speakers on sheer force of emotion alone. As usual with Beck, some of it was laugh out loud funny, and some of it, to quote him, “makes blood shoot out of your eyes.”
If you’re among the population that thinks Glenn is an idiot, fine. Once again, I ask you, “What is he WRONG about and produce FACTS to support your position.” Call him or those who think like him anything you want. Blah, blah, blah… FACTS please. FACTS, FACTS, FACTS. WHAT IS HE WRONG ABOUT?????????????
January 28, 2010 – 14:16 ET
GLENN: Man, I whoa. I have never been so outraged by a president. I don’t think I’ve I’ve never seen anything like it last I don’t even know where to begin. Should we begin with we’re going to drill for oil offshore and we’re going to have nuclear power plants? Whoa, what? Coupled with a comprehensive cap and trade program. Oh, I see, I see. Cap and trade, let’s see. If we had a cap and trade program, how much would it cost then for you to drill for oil in Alaska? It wouldn’t be worth it. This guy, I said to you last week, we are going to have evidence on whether everybody says, “Oh, no, he’s just a politician, he’s just like all the other politicians we’ve always had, they are all like this.” And I’ve been saying for how long, no, they’re not. No, they are not. This guy is in a different category. He is a revolutionary. Look at the revolutionaries that he has appointed. Let’s see what I can share here. The people that he has appointed, they are the good ones. Try the revolutionaries that he’s tried to appoint and didn’t make it through the screening process. This guy is an amazing revolutionary. Last week I told you if he is a politician, he will then triangulate because they are hemorrhaging, hemorrhaging. They’ll triangulate. If he people say, oh, fundamentally transform America, no, he doesn’t, he just wants to stop all the rhetoric and all the infighting and everything, work together, hope and change. If that was true, he’d triangulate. If he wants to fundamentally transform America and he is being led by the nose by revolutionaries, there’s no way he’s going to do anything but follow the words and the advice of Saul Alinsky and that is step on the accelerator. If this speech wasn’t a step on the accelerator, I don’t know what was. The arrogance from the moment this guy walked in, the arrogance. There’s no humility there. The arrogance of the lies that he told last night, I’ve never you know, every president, everybody, you can take it and you can say, okay, well, you know, let’s spin this, let’s spin that. No, no, no. I don’t appoint lobbyists? We sat in my office today and named 12 in his administration! How does he expect to get away with this? With an exception of, he knows the media won’t corner him. The media is complicit. The media is damn near treasonous.


When the president last night went in, I’m going to show you there’s two things that should speak volumes to you, and it’s amazing to me that the media is spinning one of them as, did you see what Alito did? He talked back to the president. I want to play this whole section here for you. I want you to hear what he did last night.


PRESIDENT OBAMA: To close that credibility gap, we have to take action on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, ban the outside influence of lobbyists, to do our


GLENN: Stop. Is he not the guy who has Andy Stern, is he not the guy who says, hey, I want to talk about immigration, I talk to SEIU; I want to talk about healthcare, I talk to SEIU; your agenda is my agenda. He wants to stop outside influence? Oh, my gosh.


Then you have, he says that we have to restore a credibility gap. He’s lying in his advice on how to repair a credibility gap because too many people think that Washington are liars, cheats, thieves. So let me lie to you and tell you what I do, which he doesn’t on lobbyists. I’m sorry, I got sidetracked. Go ahead.


PRESIDENT OBAMA: Work openly, to give our people the government they deserve.


GLENN: Stop. Stop.


PAT: Openly.


GLENN: He wants to work openly. How about honoring your promise of C Span hearings? He wants to work openly. Okay.


PRESIDENT OBAMA: That’s what I came to Washington to do. That’s why for the first time in history my administration posts on our White House visitors online.


GLENN: Stop. Stop! Because it was demanded through a Freedom of Information Act. How long did Fox try to get the Freedom of Information Act to get the White House visitors? “We post online.” Months after, and not everybody. Believe me, we filed for the Freedom of Information Act. If you are a schlub that still thinks, we’re America, we’ll weather anything, don’t worry about it, and you are just watching him, this is a brilliant speech. But I truly believe those days are over in America. What these politicians don’t know is you are dealing with a different group of voters. You are dealing with people who are not playing politics. They don’t care anymore. They are seeing the end of their children’s financial future and they want the truth. You cannot push them like this. You cannot do it. He’s raised the stakes beyond your wildest imagination. I think he’s doing it intentionally as well. Arrogance. Go ahead.


PRESIDENT OBAMA: We’ve excluded lobbyists from policy making jobs or seats on federal boards and commissions.


PAT: Listen to the reaction there. Because they know.


GLENN: I’ve never heard anything like it.


PAT: He’s got lobbyists from Raytheon in his cabinet for electric utility companies.


GLENN: Goldman Sachs!


PAT: Goldman Sachs. Eric Holder himself was a lobbyist.


GLENN: I mean, it is Timothy Geithner’s assistant is a lobbyist of Goldman Sachs. I mean, I’m going to show you the influence of big banks tonight on television. I mean, it’s and listen. I have never heard. I’m not a guy who said Joe Wilson, I understand his frustration, but I don’t agree with, you’re in for decorum. This is the president of the United States. This is the state of the union. You know, when he says “Liar” or “You lie,” I wasn’t for that. But when you hear what happened last night and the groans, I got news for ya. His lies were breathtaking.


PAT: I don’t think they could stifle them. I really don’t.


GLENN: I don’t think so. If I were in there, I would have done the same thing: Oh, my gosh.


PAT: I was at home doing it.


GLENN: I was, too. How could you possibly say that? I mean, and he expects to get away with it.


PAT: I woke up the kids yelling at this guy.


GLENN: The bigger the lie, the easier it is to swallow.


PAT: Oh, yeah.


GLENN: You what?


PAT: I woke up the kids yelling at this guy. So when they were groaning I’m thinking, you know


GLENN: The restraint?


PAT: Yeah.


STU: Red State put together a list of lobbyists after he said this line: William Lynn, Eric Holder, Tom Vilsack, William Corr, David Hayes, Mark Patterson, Ron Klain, Mona Sutphen, Melody Barnes, Celia Muñoz, Patrick Gaspard and Michael Strautmanis?


PAT: Those are just top jobs.


GLENN: Yeah.


PAT: That doesn’t even scratch the surface.


GLENN: That’s not, okay, I got one in there, I don’t know how he slipped in there. There’s no attempt to stop these guys!


PAT: No.


GLENN: None, none. I mean, how long? We covered those for a week when he broke that promise and he started breaking it and it was like break, break, break, break, break, break, break. And we were like, where did that promise go? And nobody held him to it.


STU: And this goes back to the point you make over and over again about arrogance. He’s got to know everyone knows this.


GLENN: He does.


STU: We’ve talked about it a million times.


GLENN: This is beyond arrogance. This is beyond arrogance. This also includes, the people are stupid; they’ll never know. I’ll just say whatever I want because it sounds good. I’ll say it well. I’ll do a good speech. I look presidential. They’re stupid.


STU: You know who else was like this was Jon Edwards. I mean, this is stereotypical, him out there talking about his family, how much he loves his cancerous


GLENN: They are not afraid. This guy is more afraid of the left than he is of you. This is what our founders talked about. When there is fear of the government, there is tyranny. But when the government fears the people, there is freedom. They do not fear you.

Glenn Beck – Current Events & Politics – Glenn Beck: State of the Stupid, er, Union

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Why Che and Mao AREN’T Cool…

Jan 23 2010 Published by under Che, Glenn Beck, Hitler, Liberalism, Liberals, Mao, Progressives, Progressivism, Stalin

One of the producers of this documentary holds a Master’s in History and remarked that she was ANGRY that she was never taught much of what she learned while putting together these video clips.

If you have ever seen a college student or a Hollywood celebrity wearing a Che or Mao t-shirt, forward them to this five part documentary.  And if you/they are inclined to believe Glenn Beck is an idiot, fine.  Watch it anyway and then produce some facts to support your assertions on where his is WRONG on his facts here.  I’m tired of people making ad hominem attacks on him and people who think like him.  Fine.  He’s fat.  He cries.  He’s a (sober) alcoholic.  Blah, blah, blah… WHAT IS HE WRONG ABOUT AND PRODUCE SOME FACTS FACTS FACTS to support your position!

Part ONE



Part TWO



Part THREE



Part FOUR



Part FIVE

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