Saturday, April 13, 2013

Communist KGB Agent

Moscow, Russia– A Russian government official bragged that Barack Obama was aKGB operative and that his presidency had been planned since birth, an Americanphysicist and government contractor reports.Tom Fife, an American computer networking specialist and international businessman,
reported the alarming facts about the Kremlin’s connection to Barack Obama. The boast
from a Communist Party official reportedly occurred during a business trip to Russia,16 years before Barack Obama was ushered into the presidency of the United States.
“It was like an elastic band snapping all the way from 1992,” Fife shakily admitted, upon
recall of the exact moment he realized the Communist official had been telling the truth.
“It was a very, very scary feeling.”
Full article: http://www.scribd.com/doc/106600033/Russian-Official-Obama-i...

Did you mean: agenda with russia
 2010-11-17 

The Obama Administration's European Agenda
... Finally, what has arguably been the most controversial part of our European
agenda – our reset with Russia – has started to pay significant ...

www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/rm/2010/151110.htm
 2012-06-04 

Moving the Prague Agenda Forward Arms Control Association Annual Meeting
... would like to make clear is that the President set an agenda in Prague ... will help
shape our negotiating approach to the next agreement with Russia. ...

www.state.gov/t/us/191750.htm
 2010-10-18 

The United States and Europe: An Agenda for Engagement
... Finally, what has arguably been the most controversial part of our European
agenda – our reset with Russia – has started to pay significant ...

www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/rm/2010/149608.htm
 2010-03-29 

New START Treaty and the Obama Administration's Nonproliferation Agenda
... the UN in May, so that leaves two additional pieces in the President's agenda. ...
Second, it furthers our goal of resetting our relationship with Russia. ...

www.state.gov/t/us/139205.htm
 2010-09-22 

Briefing on Transatlantic Meetings and NATO-Russia Council Meeting
... As PJ mentioned, today started with the NATO-Russia Council meeting, and ...
and Europeans to discuss the transatlantic security agenda we have ...

www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/rm/2010/147600.htm
 2011-09-19 

The New START Treaty and the CTBT: Two Essential Steps Toward Fulfilling the Prague Agenda
... interrelationship of all these issues is why the Prague Agenda set out ... for
leadership by negotiating and ratifying the New START Treaty with Russia. ...

www.state.gov/t/us/173967.htm
 2010-10-26 

Interview with GazetaRu
... It is nice to speak to you. We always have a very long foreign policy agenda
with Russia. And I want to cover the full range of topics. ...

www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/rm/2010/150132.htm
 2009-06-23 

Background Briefing on Upcoming OSCE Meeting in Corfu, Greece and G-8 Meeting in Trieste, Italy
... to, in fact, be there at the NATO-Russia ministerial ... and just stick to broader
nuclear agendas as if ... our long-term strategy that was initially the agenda. ...

www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2009/06a/125281.htm
 2012-12-14 

Russia
... Our full bilateral agenda for 2013 features deepening economic ties with Russia,
the newest member of the WTO; making progress where we can ...

www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3183.htm
 2009-12-14 

Remarks on the Human Rights Agenda for the 21st Century
... must also be part of our human rights agenda. ... not three separate goals with
three separate agendas. ... doors, like pressing China and Russia as part ...

www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2009a/12/133544.htm

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Quiet Drama in Philadelphia

“You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.  You will not be able to skip out for beer during commercials.  Because the revolution will not be televised. . . . The revolution will be live.”
–From the 1970 hit song by Gil Scott-Heron

Last week, the city of Philadelphia’s school system announced that it expects to close 40 public schools next year, and 64 schools by 2017. The school district expects to lose 40% of its current enrollment, and thousands of experienced, qualified teachers. 
But corporate media in other cities made no mention of these massive school closings – nor of those in Chicago, Atlanta, or New York City. Even in the Philadelphia media, the voices of the parents, students and teachers who will suffer were omitted from most accounts. 
It’s all about balancing the budgets of cities that have lost revenues from the economic downturn. Supposedly, there is simply no money for the luxury of providing an education for the people.

Where will those children find an education? Where will the teachers find work?  Almost certainly in an explosion of private sector “charter schools,” where the quality of education – from the curriculum to books to the food served at lunch — will be sacrificed to the lowest bidder, and teachers’ salaries and benefits will be sacrificed to the profits of the new private owners, who will also eat up many millions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies. 
Why does there always seem to be enough money for military expansion, prisons, bank bailouts and tax cuts for the wealthy, but not enough for education—or for jobs, housing, healthcare, or old age pensions?  These are not “welfare” but are part of the social contract for which we pay taxes and make social security payments.
In an article reprinted on Truthout on May 10th titled “Why Isn’t Closing 40 Philadelphia Public Schools National News?,” Bruce Dixon posed this answer:
The city has a lot of poor and black children. Our ruling classes don’t want to invest in educating these young people, preferring instead to track into lifetimes of insecure, low-wage labor and/or prison. Our elites don’t need a populace educated in critical thinking. So low-cost holding tanks that deliver standardized lessons and tests, via computer if possible, operated by profit-making “educational entrepreneurs” are the way to go.
 “Lifetimes of insecure, low-wage labor or prison”—this is very close to the “indentured servitude” that was abolished along with slavery by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1865.  The freed slaves are being recaptured by debt, beginning with the debt of school loans, followed by credit card debt, mortgage debt, and healthcare costs. 
As was cynically observed in a document called the Hazard Circular, allegedly circulated by British banking interests among their American banking counterparts in July 1862:
[S]lavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care of the laborers, while the European plan, led by England, is that capital shall control labor by controlling wages. This can be done by controlling the money. The great debt that capitalists will see to it is made out of the war, must be used as a means to control the volume of money. . . . It will not do to allow the greenback, as it is called, to circulate as money any length of time, as we cannot control that.  [Quoted in Charles Lindburgh, Banking and Currency and the Money Trust (Washington D.C.: National Capital Press, 1913), page 102.]
The quotation may be apocryphal, but it graphically conveys the fate of our burgeoning indentured class.  It also suggests the way out: we must recapture the control of our money and banking systems, including the issuance of debt-free money (“greenbacks”) by the government. 

Meanwhile, in Other Unreported News . . .

That alternative vision was put before a conference in Philadelphia in late April that drew delegates from all over the United States.  The theme of the first Public Banking in America conference, held at the Quaker Friends Center on April 28-29th, was that to fix the economy, we first need to take back the “money power”—the power to create currency and credit. 
Led by keynote speakers Gar Alperovitz and Hazel Henderson and highlighted in an electric speech by twelve-year-old Victoria Grant, the conference was all about solutions.  As summarized by OpEdNews editor Josh Mitteldorf: 
There were two visions expressed . . . . The first is the very practical idea that states and cities around America could be rescued from insolvency if they had their own banks, instead of relying on commercial banks to borrow money through bonds. Tax-exempt bond issues supply money to states and municipal governments typically at 5 or 6% interest, while banks these days are able to borrow from the Fed at 1/4% per year. 
The second vision is . . . the radically-subversive idea that the system we have for introducing money into the economy is a boon for the banks, but perhaps a major drag on our economy. Perhaps a simple, direct system of money creation by the Treasury Dept instead of the Fed would put an end to cycles of recession, and create a foundation for long-term prosperity. 
Banking is a huge leech on our economy. 40% of every dollar we spend on goods and services — 40% of all that we create and all we consume — is siphoned off the top as bank interest in one form or another. (Calculations of Margrit Kennedy) The US Government is in the absurd position of paying interest to a private bank for every dollar that is put into circulation. The Federal Reserve system has privatized the power to create money, which, according to the Constitution, ought to belong to Congress alone. Presently, interest on the national debt costs the Federal government $500 billion in 2011, and (because of structural deficit spending) it is the fastest-growing portion of the Federal budget. 
Five hundred billion dollars could be saved annually just by refinancing the federal debt through our own central bank, interest-free.  This is not an off-the-wall idea but has actually been done, very successfully.  Among other instances, it was done in Canada from 1939 to 1974, as was detailed by the youngest and oldest speakers at the conference, 12-year-old Victoria Grant and former defense minister Paul Hellyer, founder of the Canadian Action Party.  Another Canadian at the conference, Toronto Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, has proposed that the Toronto city council could improve its finances by forming its own bank.   
The direct solution to the economic crisis, urged by veteran money reformer Bill Still, would be for the federal government to simply create the money it needs, as the American colonists did by printing paper scrip and Abraham Lincoln did by printing greenbacks. 
But cities and states don’t need to wait for a deadlocked federal Congress to act.  As Wong-Tam has proposed for Toronto, they can divest their public revenues from the too-big-to-fail banks and put them in their own publicly-owned banks.  These banks could then do what all banks do: leverage capital, backed by deposits, into money in the form of bank credit. 
This newly-created bank money would then be available for the use of the local government interest-free (since the government would own the bank and would get the interest back as dividends).  Among other possibilities, the money could be used to restore the schools.  This would not be an expenditure but an investment, as illustrated by the G.I. Bill, which provided education and low-interest loans for returning servicemen after World War II.  Economists have determined that for every 1944 dollar invested in the G.I. Bill, the country received approximately $7 in return, through increased economic productivity, consumer spending, and tax revenues.
Legislation for public banks has now been introduced in 18 U.S. states, on the model of the highly successful Bank of North Dakota (BND).  Elaborated on at the Public Banking conference by Ed Sather and Rozanne Junker, the BND is currently the country’s only state-owned bank and has been a major factor in allowing the state to escape the recent credit crisis.  North Dakota is the only state to boast a significant budget surplus every year since the economic downturn of 2008. 
Ellen Brown noted that 40% of banks globally are also publicly-owned.  These are largely in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), which also escaped the credit crisis, largely because their public banks did not rely on derivatives and, unlike private banks, lent counter-cyclically to cushion their economies from the downturn. 
Conference speaker Samuel Giles proposed that even public universities could set up their own banks, which could then leverage university monies for the university’s own use, rather than giving those assets away to Wall Street to be speculated with and lent back at much higher interest rates.

Innovative Solutions for Pennsylvania

Speakers Michael Sauvante and Mike Krauss noted that efforts are underway in several Pennsylvania and Ohio municipalities to create public banks.  One possibility is for public banks to take an aggressive role in ending the foreclosure crisis by acquiring abandoned and foreclosed homes by eminent domain.  These homes could be added to the asset base of the bank, which could extend credit to restore them and then sell or rent them at reasonable rates. 
Krauss noted that Philadelphia already has a strong effort underway to create a “land bank”—a bank to acquire, rehabilitate and create productive uses for the city’s more than 40,000 vacant properties—and legislation (HB 1682) has been introduced in the state legislature to enable this effort.  But the land bank proposed is not designed to function as a depository bank that leverages funds into credit.  Rather, it would simply work with appropriated funds or bond revenue. This is a positive step toward addressing a real need, but it could be enhanced by turning the land bank into a public bank—a chartered bank having the power to create money as credit on its books. 
The efforts for developing public banks in Pennsylvania are being led by the Pennsylvania Project, which was a co-sponsor of the Philadelphia conference and is supported in its work by the Public Banking Institute and the Center for State Innovation.  The Pennsylvania Project is creating partnerships with other Pennsylvania public policy organizations to introduce legislation for a state Bank of Pennsylvania in 2013, after elections are held and a strong foundation of support has been laid.

Revolution Without Bloodshed or War

We live under a tyranny today that is just as intolerable and unjust as that in 1776, but violent revolution is no longer an option.  Our oppressors own the military and the media, and their FEMA camps are waiting for us. 
If change is to come, it must be peaceful and legal, beginning with a revolution in the minds and hearts of the people.  The message of the Public Banking in America Conference was that we can throw off the yoke of the financial elite by making money and credit a public utility; and the most feasible place to start is at the local level, with publicly-owned banks. 
For videos of some of the speakers, see http://www.publicbankinginamerica.org/speakers.htm.  More to come.  The Victoria Grant video has gone viral, approaching 700,000 hits on various websites.

Leaked Army Manual for Domestic Internment Camps

I just revised this essay.  It's a fair bit longer now.

The other day on Prison Planet, they published a US Army manual for running an internment/re-education camp.  Here is the link.
http://info.publicintelligence.net/USArmy-InternmentResettlement.pdf
Mostly it looks like it's for use in foreign countries, and it's a pretty dry read, EXCEPT they mention Posse Comitatus and the word "domestic" at one point.  Posse Comitatus is a US law having to do with limiting the use of the military on the citizenry.  Under normal circumstances, civilians are dealt with by law enforcement, and the military is supposed to not get involved. If this were for use only in foreign countries, then a mention of Posse Comitatus wouldn't belong in this manual at all.  So, this manual is also intended for use here in the US.  In fact, Section 2-40 specifically says "within US territory".  Section 7-16 instructs the camp to identify each prisoner on a name board with their name and Social Security number.  Foreigners in foreign countries don't have Social Security numbers.  This is for HERE.

Anyway, this camp manual also mentions singling out political leaders, malcontents and dissidents and "re-educating" them, and the use of loudspeakers in the camp, and just all sorts of stuff that sounds like a gulag.  If it walks like a gulag and quacks like a gulag, it must be a gulag.

On the Alex Jones show they also pointed out this one video of a guy Larry Grathwohl who had spied on the Weathermen, who witnessed them discussing in all seriousness what they would do with the population of the US once they got control.  They decided they would put all who disagreed with them in "re-education" camps and kill them if they still didn't agree.  Millions of Americans, they planned to kill, and hand over the land to the Chinese and the Russians.

Here's the video


The investigative journalist Jerome Corsi has looked into Obama's past.  Weatherman Bill Ayers' father is probably the one who put Obama through Harvard.  Bill Ayers most likely wrote the bulk of "Memoirs from my Father".  His wife Bernardine Dohrn most likely wrote Obama's course notes for his Constitutional law class that he taught.  Obama is therefore a front man for the Weathermen and other radical leftists.

All around us, the evidence is piling up.
  • The US Gov's OWN websites, like govbizopps.com, and its own documents, like this manual, repeatedly mention prison camps, labor camps, re-education camps, HERE IN THE US.
  • and its purchase of tons of defense ammo (not practice ammo) mostly for pistols (cops)
  • and the recent Executive Orders, the NDAA, CISPA, etc. etc.
  • Mr. Obama's off-camera (not) remark to Mr. Medvedev "after my re-election I will have more flexibility"
  • Rampant fraud in the Republican campaign, where they have been stealing delegates from Ron Paul
  • The offshore outsourcing of vote counting to a Spanish company SCYTL which is owned by a major Obama 2008 donor and pal of George Soros
  • The EPA guy saying they will "crucify" anyone who opposes their policies
  • US AG Eric Holder refusing to prosecute black-on-white crime
  • The Gunwalking scandal, Fast and Furious, and Holder being essentially in contempt of Congress for not producing evidence in a timely manner.
  • Obama claiming he gets his authority to wage war from the UN
  • Agenda-21 based land grabs in Texas and Arizona.  People are getting their land stolen.
  • Serious questions and doubts about the authenticity of Mr. Obama's birth certificate and selective service card
  • Obama admitted he faked his "NY girlfriend" in his memoir, which also was really written by Bill Ayers.
  • Everyone surrounding Obama being some kind of radical wing nut (Holdren, Sunstein, Hilary with her PhD thesis lionizing Alinsky, that preacher he had to disown, the Weathermen, etc.)

At BEST, it says the US Gov is expecting a collapse and is nervous about unrest, and Obama's a typical corrupt Chicago Democrat with a radical past, and the Republicans are also corrupt in their way.  Maybe we can elect him out of office and at least get the more wacko element out of there.  Except it looks like he's found a way to steal the election with SCYTL.

At WORST, it says the US Gov or at least corrupt elements high up in it plan on a bloodbath, gulags, and heavy censorship - essentially turning this place into another North Korea, and pushing a Communist ideology as embraced by these Weathermen and other Commies who have secretly fueled Obama's career.  They have the collusion of the UN and foreign powers who would see us humbled and take our natural resources.

I might also mention that should the UN step in to "assist" in restoring "order", the UN's Agenda 21 advocates the abolishment of private property, i.e. all the land would belong to the government.  If this plan succeeds you would no longer own your own home, there would be nowhere that would not be government property, you would have basically no rights, they would prevent you from gardening or doing anything to be self-sufficient, they would take your arms from you, and you would be a slave; and if you disagreed they would throw you in a camp and kill you if you didn't get the hint.  And people would rat each other out just to get enough to eat, or for petty disagreements.

The big question here is, how much power do these radicals have to make this come true?  If practically Obama's entire cabinet etc. comprises of these old hippie Communists and radicals, I'd say they can't get much more ingrained in the power structure than that.  And I don't think they've mellowed out over the years in the least.  They might not be wearing beads and bell bottoms anymore, but for example Cass Sunstein was advocating doing away with the First Amendment only five years ago.  And now he has selective amnesia.

What really annoys me, is the Republicans seem to be going along with it all.  A lot of them voted for CISPA.  Where are their balls?  Or have they been bought off?

There IS a collapse coming.  There WILL be chaos.  But I'll be damned if I let a bunch of asshole Communists take over and turn this place into a giant prison.  So I'm standing up and saying ENOUGH.  If they want to turn this place into a giant prison it'll have to be over my dead body.

There is still time to nip this crap in the bud.  Make as much noise as you can about this.  The sleepers have to be woken up.  Like in the movie Network, just open the window, stick your head out, and yell, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!".  Then get to work, any way you can.  Become a prepper.  Get as self sufficient as you can.  Learn useful skills.  Paramedic comes to mind.  If there is a civil war here, or a foreign invasion, or even another natural disaster, there will be a huge need for medics and first aid.  I'm sure you can imagine other skills you might need, both for self-preservation and to help others.  Get going.  The hour is late.

P.S.  To any military or law enforcement: If you have taken an oath to the Constitution of the United States, please consider it doesn't expire.  And even though I'm not military or anything, I will defend the Constitution to my last breath.
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Saturday, May 5, 2012

Leaked Army Manual for Domestic Internment Camps

I just revised this essay.  It's a fair bit longer now.

The other day on Prison Planet, they published a US Army manual for running an internment/re-education camp.  Here is the link.
http://info.publicintelligence.net/USArmy-InternmentResettlement.pdf
Mostly it looks like it's for use in foreign countries, and it's a pretty dry read, EXCEPT they mention Posse Comitatus and the word "domestic" at one point.  Posse Comitatus is a US law having to do with limiting the use of the military on the citizenry.  Under normal circumstances, civilians are dealt with by law enforcement, and the military is supposed to not get involved. If this were for use only in foreign countries, then a mention of Posse Comitatus wouldn't belong in this manual at all.  So, this manual is also intended for use here in the US.  In fact, Section 2-40 specifically says "within US territory".  Section 7-16 instructs the camp to identify each prisoner on a name board with their name and Social Security number.  Foreigners in foreign countries don't have Social Security numbers.  This is for HERE.

Anyway, this camp manual also mentions singling out political leaders, malcontents and dissidents and "re-educating" them, and the use of loudspeakers in the camp, and just all sorts of stuff that sounds like a gulag.  If it walks like a gulag and quacks like a gulag, it must be a gulag.

On the Alex Jones show they also pointed out this one video of a guy Larry Grathwohl who had spied on the Weathermen, who witnessed them discussing in all seriousness what they would do with the population of the US once they got control.  They decided they would put all who disagreed with them in "re-education" camps and kill them if they still didn't agree.  Millions of Americans, they planned to kill, and hand over the land to the Chinese and the Russians.

Here's the video


The investigative journalist Jerome Corsi has looked into Obama's past.  Weatherman Bill Ayers' father is probably the one who put Obama through Harvard.  Bill Ayers most likely wrote the bulk of "Memoirs from my Father".  His wife Bernardine Dohrn most likely wrote Obama's course notes for his Constitutional law class that he taught.  Obama is therefore a front man for the Weathermen and other radical leftists.

All around us, the evidence is piling up.
  • The US Gov's OWN websites, like govbizopps.com, and its own documents, like this manual, repeatedly mention prison camps, labor camps, re-education camps, HERE IN THE US.
  • and its purchase of tons of defense ammo (not practice ammo) mostly for pistols (cops)
  • and the recent Executive Orders, the NDAA, CISPA, etc. etc.
  • Mr. Obama's off-camera (not) remark to Mr. Medvedev "after my re-election I will have more flexibility"
  • Rampant fraud in the Republican campaign, where they have been stealing delegates from Ron Paul
  • The offshore outsourcing of vote counting to a Spanish company SCYTL which is owned by a major Obama 2008 donor and pal of George Soros
  • The EPA guy saying they will "crucify" anyone who opposes their policies
  • US AG Eric Holder refusing to prosecute black-on-white crime
  • The Gunwalking scandal, Fast and Furious, and Holder being essentially in contempt of Congress for not producing evidence in a timely manner.
  • Obama claiming he gets his authority to wage war from the UN
  • Agenda-21 based land grabs in Texas and Arizona.  People are getting their land stolen.
  • Serious questions and doubts about the authenticity of Mr. Obama's birth certificate and selective service card
  • Obama admitted he faked his "NY girlfriend" in his memoir, which also was really written by Bill Ayers.
  • Everyone surrounding Obama being some kind of radical wing nut (Holdren, Sunstein, Hilary with her PhD thesis lionizing Alinsky, that preacher he had to disown, the Weathermen, etc.)

At BEST, it says the US Gov is expecting a collapse and is nervous about unrest, and Obama's a typical corrupt Chicago Democrat with a radical past, and the Republicans are also corrupt in their way.  Maybe we can elect him out of office and at least get the more wacko element out of there.  Except it looks like he's found a way to steal the election with SCYTL.

At WORST, it says the US Gov or at least corrupt elements high up in it plan on a bloodbath, gulags, and heavy censorship - essentially turning this place into another North Korea, and pushing a Communist ideology as embraced by these Weathermen and other Commies who have secretly fueled Obama's career.  They have the collusion of the UN and foreign powers who would see us humbled and take our natural resources.

I might also mention that should the UN step in to "assist" in restoring "order", the UN's Agenda 21 advocates the abolishment of private property, i.e. all the land would belong to the government.  If this plan succeeds you would no longer own your own home, there would be nowhere that would not be government property, you would have basically no rights, they would prevent you from gardening or doing anything to be self-sufficient, they would take your arms from you, and you would be a slave; and if you disagreed they would throw you in a camp and kill you if you didn't get the hint.  And people would rat each other out just to get enough to eat, or for petty disagreements.

The big question here is, how much power do these radicals have to make this come true?  If practically Obama's entire cabinet etc. comprises of these old hippie Communists and radicals, I'd say they can't get much more ingrained in the power structure than that.  And I don't think they've mellowed out over the years in the least.  They might not be wearing beads and bell bottoms anymore, but for example Cass Sunstein was advocating doing away with the First Amendment only five years ago.  And now he has selective amnesia.

What really annoys me, is the Republicans seem to be going along with it all.  A lot of them voted for CISPA.  Where are their balls?  Or have they been bought off?

There IS a collapse coming.  There WILL be chaos.  But I'll be damned if I let a bunch of asshole Communists take over and turn this place into a giant prison.  So I'm standing up and saying ENOUGH.  If they want to turn this place into a giant prison it'll have to be over my dead body.

There is still time to nip this crap in the bud.  Make as much noise as you can about this.  The sleepers have to be woken up.  Like in the movie Network, just open the window, stick your head out, and yell, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!".  Then get to work, any way you can.  Become a prepper.  Get as self sufficient as you can.  Learn useful skills.  Paramedic comes to mind.  If there is a civil war here, or a foreign invasion, or even another natural disaster, there will be a huge need for medics and first aid.  I'm sure you can imagine other skills you might need, both for self-preservation and to help others.  Get going.  The hour is late.

P.S.  To any military or law enforcement: If you have taken an oath to the Constitution of the United States, please consider it doesn't expire.  And even though I'm not military or anything, I will defend the Constitution to my last breath.

Treason Alert: Dems Try to Move Gun Bill Forward Without Allowing Senators to Read It

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Obamacare repeat: Senators not allowed to read bill prior to cloture
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 12, 2013

Like the disastrous and unconstitutional Obamacare bill rammed down the throats of the American people, the unconstitutional S. 49 gun bill aimed at the heart of the Second Amendment passed cloture earlier today in the Senate with 68 votes despite the fact senators have not had a chance to read it.
Sen. Mike Lee: Nobody has read the bill.
Cloture will now put the legislation up for a simple majority vote. Democrats have a majority in the Senate. It will be up to Republicans in the House to derail the bill if it is passed in the Senate.
Republicans decided not to support a move by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul to filibuster the legislation. Sixteen Republicans – Alexander, Ayotte, Burr, Chambliss, Coburn, Collins, Corker, Flake, Graham, Heller, Hoeven, Isakson, Kirk, McCain, Toomey, Wicker – voted with Democrats to move the bill to the floor for debate and a vote.
Regardless of the enthusiasm to proceed, most senators, including ardent supporters, have not read the bill. “Well, I haven’t seen the bill, so I’m going to reserve my concerns,” California Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein told Morning Joe. “I only know what people have told me.”
Sen. Feinstein: I have not seen the bill yet.
Andrew Johnson wrote for the National Review earlier today:
Speaking on the Senate floor minutes before the vote to move gun-control legislation forward, Mike Lee (R., Utah) urged postponing the cloture vote because none of his Senate colleagues has yet had a chance to read the entire bill. “We’re trying to prevent the ability of members to push through legislation before anyone has had the time to read and evaluate the language,” Lee said. “As of this morning, as of this very moment, not a single senator has been provided the legislative text of” the background-check provision proposed yesterday by senators Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey, which Lee said was the “centerpiece of this legislation.”
If passed, universal background checks will establish a national registry that will be used to confiscate firearms.
This article was posted: Friday, April 12, 2013 at 12:01 pm

Seattle Cancer Center Establishes Glorified Suicide Clinic


Washington legalized assisted suicide several years ago, and efforts are underway there to normalize overdosing as a legitimate medical treatment.
Toward that end, a cancer center has established what amounts to a suicide clinic called (of course) the Death With Dignity program, for use by its patients who want to commit suicide. From the Clinical Psychiatry News story:
The program’s policy – written by the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance’s medical director and approved by a majority of the medical executive committee members, as with any clinical policy – requires that patients request information about medically assisted suicide from their physicians, or that these clinicians raise the topic, to be considered for referral. Participation is entirely voluntary for medical staff and faculty members.
Every patient who is a potential participant is first assigned an advocate, a licensed social worker employed by the Alliance, who assists patients, family members, pharmacists, and physicians throughout a multistep process of participating. This advocate also tracks compliance with required documentation for the state Department of Health.
The advocate, as well as the attending physician, ensures that all potential participants are aware of alternatives to medically assisted suicide, such as palliative care and hospice care. The patient’s terminal status is verified, and if the attending physician doesn’t wish to participate, a prescribing physician and a consulting physician are chosen from a group of willing providers.
Did you notice that suicide can be the doctor’s idea?
This is an extremely disturbing development because it gives the imprimatur of a respected cancer center to suicide.
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Not that we should be surprised. Medicalizing and normalizing suicide for the ill and disabled has been in the works for some time. From a 1970 California Medical Association’s California Journal article on “death control,” predicting:
The traditional Western ethic has always placed great emphasis on the intrinsic worth and equal value of every human life regardless of its stage or condition . … This traditional ethic is . . . being eroded at its core and may eventually be abandoned . . . [Hlard choices will have to be made . . . that will of necessity violate and ultimately destroy the traditional Western ethic with all that portends. It will become necessary and acceptable to place relative rather than absolute values on such things as human lives. . . . One may anticipate . . . death selection and death control whether by the individual or by society.*
And so, what was then unthinkable–a cancer center establishing a suicide clinic–is now being touted as the model for the country. Woe is us.
* “A New Ethic for Medicine and Society,” editorial California Medicine, Vol. 113, No. 3, September 1970, pp. 67-68.
LifeNews.com Note: Wesley J. Smith, J.D., is a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture and a bioethics attorney who blogs at Secondhand Smoke.